Montréal Canadiens vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Thursday, March 20, 2008 · TD Banknorth Garden
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Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 4–2 on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at TD Banknorth Garden. The Bruins outshot the Canadiens 36–30.
Alex Kovalev scored twice. Mark Stuart, Michael Ryder, Andrei Kostitsyn and Dennis Wideman also scored.
Carey Price made 34 saves on 36 shots for the win; Tim Thomas stopped 26 of 30.
Scoring
2nd period
Alex Kovalev (32)Andrei Kostitsyn (26), Josh Gorges (9)1–008:19 MTL- Alex Kovalev (33)Unassisted2–013:21 MTL
Mark Stuart (4)Shane Hnidy (5), Chuck Kobasew (17)2–113:48 BOS
3rd period
Michael Ryder (14)Saku Koivu (39), Guillaume Latendresse (10)3–106:47 MTL
Andrei Kostitsyn (22)Alex Kovalev (44), Mark Streit (41)4–111:13 MTL
Dennis Wideman (12)Petteri Nokelainen (2), P.J. Axelsson (15)4–216:55 BOS
Team stats
MTLBOS
3036
51%49%
0/30/4
1313
2527
155
54
23
Penalties
- 7:20 into the first period
Guillaume Latendresse · hooking2 min - 13:13 into the first period
Glen Murray · slashing2 min - 6:43 into the second periodJeremy Reich · fighting5 min
- 6:43 into the second periodTom Kostopoulos · fighting5 min
- 10:09 into the second periodSergei Kostitsyn · hooking2 min
- 17:41 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 3:32 into the third periodAlex Kovalev · tripping2 min
- 12:18 into the third periodMark Stuart · tripping2 min
- 19:52 into the third periodSergei Kostitsyn · holding2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodMilan Lucic · cross checking2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 27Alex KovalevR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 6 | 20:46 |
| 46Andrei KostitsynL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 4 | 17:35 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 17:25 |
| 73Michael RyderR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12:42 |
| 84Guillaume LatendresseL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14:08 |
| 26Josh GorgesD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22:55 |
| 32Mark StreitD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 5 | 14:19 |
| 6Tom KostopoulosR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:07 |
| 14Tomas PlekanecC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | 19:42 |
| 21Chris HigginsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:40 |
| 40Maxim LapierreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:43 |
| 54Mikhail GrabovskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:51 |
| 74Sergei KostitsynL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:34 |
| 3Ryan O'ByrneD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:17 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:45 |
| 44Roman HamrlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 2 | 22:35 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:46 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 25:28 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Carey PriceG | W | 36 | 2 | .944 |
| 41Jaroslav HalakG | 0 | 0 | – |
Boston Bruins
| 11P.J. AxelssonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | 16:16 |
| 12Chuck KobasewR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:24 |
| 56Petteri NokelainenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 07:27 |
| 6Dennis WidemanD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 6 | 23:51 |
| 34Shane HnidyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16:17 |
| 45Mark StuartD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16:11 |
| 13Glen MetropolitC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 16:12 |
| 16Marco SturmL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | 16:43 |
| 17Milan LucicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 16:38 |
| 22Shawn ThorntonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 07:58 |
| 27Glen MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:30 |
| 46David KrejciC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:47 |
| 53Jeremy ReichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:51 |
| 81Phil KesselR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 13:24 |
| 91Marc SavardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 20:57 |
| 21Andrew FerenceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:13 |
| 33Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 24:50 |
| 44Aaron WardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:43 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Alex AuldG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Tim ThomasG | L | 30 | 4 | .867 |