Montréal Canadiens vs Los Angeles Kings

Regular season · Saturday, March 8, 2008 · STAPLES Center

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5–2

Final

SOG 23–37

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Game summary

The Montréal Canadiens beat the Los Angeles Kings 5-2 on Saturday, March 8, 2008 at STAPLES Center. The Kings outshot the Canadiens 37-23.

Goals came from Patrice Brisebois, Saku Koivu, Guillaume Latendresse, Rob Blake, Andrei Kostitsyn, Anze Kopitar and Tom Kostopoulos.

Goals	1st	2nd	3rd	T	SOG
MTL	0	3	2	5	23
LAK	0	1	1	2	37

Scoring

2nd period

Patrice Brisebois (3)Unassisted1–005:09 MTL
Saku Koivu (14)Mark Streit (38), Andrei Markov (40)2–007:40 MTL · PPG
Guillaume Latendresse (15)Sergei Kostitsyn (12), Josh Gorges (8)3–012:43 MTL
Rob Blake (7)Michael Cammalleri (25), Anze Kopitar (39)3–116:53 LAK · PPG

3rd period

Andrei Kostitsyn (21)Tomas Plekanec (36), Roman Hamrlik (18)4–103:49 MTL
Anze Kopitar (29)Patrick O'Sullivan (25)4–206:29 LAK
Tom Kostopoulos (5)Guillaume Latendresse (8), Roman Hamrlik (19)5–218:07 MTL · EN

Team stats

MTLLAK

23Shots on goal37

49%Faceoff %51%

1/2Power play1/5

12Penalty minutes6

25Hits17

26Blocked shots9

15Giveaways22

9Takeaways5

Penalties

1st 09:26Mike Komisarek · roughing2 min
1st 12:51Kyle Calder · roughing2 min
1st 12:51Saku Koivu · roughing2 min
1st 15:40Anze Kopitar · interference2 min
2nd 01:15Saku Koivu · interference2 min
2nd 06:49Brian Willsie · slashing2 min
2nd 09:40Michael Ryder · holding2 min
2nd 16:22Roman Hamrlik · high sticking2 min
3rd 10:18Sergei Kostitsyn · high sticking2 min