Boston Bruins vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Tuesday, January 22, 2008 · Centre Bell
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Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 8–2 on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at Centre Bell. The Bruins outshot the Canadiens 31–24.
Andrei Kostitsyn scored twice. Tom Kostopoulos, Michael Ryder, Marco Sturm, Maxim Lapierre, Bryan Smolinski, Mike Komisarek, Alex Kovalev and Petteri Nokelainen also scored.
Cristobal Huet made 29 saves on 31 shots for the win; Alex Auld stopped 3 of 7.
Scoring
1st period
Tom Kostopoulos (4)Steve Begin (2), Bryan Smolinski (12)0–100:14 MTL
Michael Ryder (8)Saku Koivu (26), Mark Streit (23)0–203:12 MTL
Marco Sturm (16)Phil Kessel (13), Marc Savard (42)1–212:09 BOS
Andrei Kostitsyn (13)Mike Komisarek (10)1–316:44 MTL
Maxim Lapierre (3)Sergei Kostitsyn (6)1–419:57 MTL
2nd period
Bryan Smolinski (3)Steve Begin (3), Tom Kostopoulos (5)1–505:45 MTL
Mike Komisarek (4)Tomas Plekanec (26), Andrei Kostitsyn (15)1–607:04 MTL
3rd period
Alex Kovalev (21)Mark Streit (24), Andrei Markov (22)1–707:10 MTL · 
Petteri Nokelainen (5)Dennis Wideman (15), Marc Savard (43)2–713:17 BOS- Andrei Kostitsyn (14)Sergei Kostitsyn (7), Mark Streit (25)2–817:44 MTL ·
Team stats
BOSMTL
3124
45%55%
0/42/4
2030
2731
1421
914
78
Penalties
- 6:42 into the first period
Marco Sturm · hooking2 min - 8:54 into the first period
Roman Hamrlik · hooking2 min - 17:11 into the first periodTom Kostopoulos · hooking2 min
- 9:15 into the second periodAndrew Ference · diving2 min
- 9:15 into the second periodSaku Koivu · interference2 min
- 13:52 into the second periodBryan Smolinski · hooking2 min
- 14:51 into the second periodMarc Savard · cross checking2 min
- 6:26 into the third periodZdeno Chara · cross checking2 min
- 6:26 into the third periodChuck Kobasew · fighting5 min
- 6:26 into the third periodSergei Kostitsyn · fighting5 min
- 11:16 into the third periodShane Hnidy · fighting5 min
- 11:16 into the third periodTom Kostopoulos · instigator2 min
- 11:16 into the third periodTom Kostopoulos · fighting5 min
- 11:16 into the third periodTom Kostopoulos · instigator misconduct10 min
- 16:44 into the third periodMarco Sturm · slashing2 min
Season series
Boston Bruins
| 91Marc SavardC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | 17:22 |
| 16Marco SturmL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 16:01 |
| 56Petteri NokelainenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13:30 |
| 81Phil KesselR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 13:46 |
| 6Dennis WidemanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 24:24 |
| 12Chuck KobasewR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 16:56 |
| 13Glen MetropolitC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 16:41 |
| 17Milan LucicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 12:34 |
| 42Pascal PelletierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 12:57 |
| 46David KrejciC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:25 |
| 53Jeremy ReichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:00 |
| 60Vladimir SobotkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 13:50 |
| 72Peter SchaeferL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:42 |
| 21Andrew FerenceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 20:35 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 22:29 |
| 34Shane HnidyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 0 | 16:27 |
| 44Aaron WardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:03 |
| 45Mark StuartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:37 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Alex AuldG | L | 7 | 4 | .429 |
| 30Tim ThomasG | 17 | 4 | .765 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 46Andrei KostitsynL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 3 | 15:05 |
| 32Mark StreitD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 1 | 19:13 |
| 6Tom KostopoulosR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 09:56 |
| 20Bryan SmolinskiC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 11:00 |
| 22Steve BeginL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 09:38 |
| 74Sergei KostitsynL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 12:54 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +4 | 1 | 20:09 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 17:20 |
| 14Tomas PlekanecC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 17:32 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 17:01 |
| 40Maxim LapierreC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:17 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 16:52 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +4 | 1 | 22:38 |
| 21Chris HigginsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:04 |
| 84Guillaume LatendresseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:23 |
| 26Josh GorgesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:11 |
| 44Roman HamrlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 22:48 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:05 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Cristobal HuetG | W | 31 | 2 | .935 |
| 41Jaroslav HalakG | 0 | 0 | – |