Montréal Canadiens vs Phoenix Coyotes
Regular season · Thursday, March 6, 2008 · Jobing.com Arena
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Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Phoenix Coyotes 4–2 on Thursday, March 6, 2008 at Jobing.com Arena. The Coyotes outshot the Canadiens 39–20.
Goals came from Tomas Plekanec, Shane Doan, Zbynek Michalek, Saku Koivu, Andrei Markov and Sergei Kostitsyn.
Carey Price made 37 saves on 39 shots for the win; Mikael Tellqvist stopped 16 of 20.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 MTL | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 20 |
 PHX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 39 |
Scoring
2nd period
Tomas Plekanec (27)Andrei Markov (39), Alex Kovalev (41)1–006:03 MTL
Shane Doan (22)Ed Jovanovski (37), Peter Mueller (25)1–110:03 PHX ·
3rd period
Zbynek Michalek (4)Peter Mueller (26)1–203:54 PHX
Saku Koivu (13)Chris Higgins (21), Alex Kovalev (42)2–206:38 MTL · 
Andrei Markov (14)Alex Kovalev (43), Bryan Smolinski (15)3–210:07 MTL · 
Sergei Kostitsyn (9)Chris Higgins (22), Josh Gorges (7)4–218:19 MTL
Team stats
MTLPHX
2039
43%57%
2/51/6
1414
3828
2210
21
77
Penalties
- 8:32 into the first periodRyan O'Byrne · interference2 min
- 11:48 into the first periodCraig Weller · hooking2 min
- 9:37 into the second periodMaxim Lapierre · high sticking double minor4 min
- 12:36 into the second periodMaxim Lapierre · high sticking double minor4 min
- 14:04 into the second periodMartin Hanzal · holding2 min
- 6:10 into the third periodJoel Perrault · hooking2 min
- 8:05 into the third periodNick Boynton · elbowing2 min
- 9:49 into the third periodDerek Morris · roughing2 min
- 10:54 into the third periodRoman Hamrlik · interference2 min
- 19:21 into the third periodEd Jovanovski · roughing2 min
- 19:38 into the third periodAndrei Kostitsyn · hooking2 min
- 19:38 into the third periodDerek Morris · slashing2 min
Montréal Canadiens
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 2 | 21:13 |
| 21Chris HigginsL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 19:51 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 27:40 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 18:30 |
| 14Tomas PlekanecC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 16:17 |
| 20Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 11:14 |
| 74Sergei KostitsynL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:02 |
| 26Josh GorgesD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 17:49 |
| 25Mathieu DandenaultR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:20 |
| 40Maxim LapierreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:51 |
| 46Andrei KostitsynL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:38 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 07:55 |
| 84Guillaume LatendresseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:05 |
| 3Ryan O'ByrneD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:08 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 22:52 |
| 32Mark StreitD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:47 |
| 44Roman HamrlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 21:42 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:18 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Carey PriceG | W | 39 | 2 | .949 |
| 41Jaroslav HalakG | 0 | 0 | – |
Phoenix Coyotes
| 88Peter MuellerC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 16:54 |
| 19Shane DoanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 6 | 21:18 |
| 4Zbynek MichalekD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 21:53 |
| 55Ed JovanovskiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 23:59 |
| 11Martin HanzalC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17:47 |
| 12Craig WellerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 09:43 |
| 16Mike YorkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 12:08 |
| 17Radim VrbataR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:30 |
| 22Mathias TjarnqvistL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14:43 |
| 26Joel PerraultC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:32 |
| 28Steve ReinprechtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:15 |
| 34Daniel WinnikL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:10 |
| 39Niko KapanenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:16 |
| 81Marcel HossaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:05 |
| 2Keith BallardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 19:21 |
| 3Keith YandleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:45 |
| 44Nick BoyntonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:07 |
| 53Derek MorrisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:51 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Ilya BryzgalovG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Mikael TellqvistG | L | 20 | 4 | .800 |