Calgary Flames vs Minnesota Wild
Regular season · Thursday, April 3, 2008 · Xcel Energy Center
SNET-W · XM 209 · KSTC
Game summary
The Minnesota Wild beat the Calgary Flames 3–1 on Thursday, April 3, 2008 at Xcel Energy Center. The Flames outshot the Wild 27–26.
Marian Gaborik scored twice. Daymond Langkow and Todd Fedoruk also scored.
Niklas Backstrom made 26 saves on 27 shots for the win; Miikka Kiprusoff stopped 23 of 26.
Scoring
1st period
Daymond Langkow (30)Jarome Iginla (46), Adrian Aucoin (25)1–002:41 CGY · 
Todd Fedoruk (6)Pavol Demitra (36), Marian Gaborik (41)1–105:54 MIN ·
3rd period
Marian Gaborik (41)Pavol Demitra (37), Keith Carney (10)1–201:11 MIN- Marian Gaborik (42)Kim Johnsson (23), Sean Hill (7)1–313:11 MIN ·
Team stats
CGYMIN
2726
50%50%
1/32/6
1913
816
1113
313
46
Penalties
- 1:53 into the first period
Eric Belanger · holding2 min - 4:12 into the first period
Dustin Boyd · high sticking2 min - 8:40 into the first periodJames Sheppard · tripping2 min
- 14:04 into the first periodKristian Huselius · holding2 min
- 19:04 into the first periodDion Phaneuf · interference2 min
- 19:04 into the first periodDion Phaneuf · fighting5 min
- 19:04 into the first periodBrent Burns · fighting5 min
- 1:26 into the second periodDustin Boyd · delaying game puck over glass2 min
- 1:26 into the second periodStephane Veilleux · hooking2 min
- 2:11 into the second periodJim Vandermeer · slashing2 min
- 6:58 into the second periodAnders Eriksson · hooking2 min
- 2:21 into the third periodBrian Rolston · holding2 min
- 11:14 into the third periodCory Sarich · tripping2 min
Season series
Calgary Flames
| 12Jarome IginlaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 22:35 |
| 22Daymond LangkowC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20:05 |
| 33Adrian AucoinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 15:50 |
| 7Stephane YelleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 07:34 |
| 11Owen NolanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22:20 |
| 17Eric GodardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:05 |
| 18Matthew LombardiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 24:54 |
| 19Wayne PrimeauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 09:28 |
| 20Kristian HuseliusL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:08 |
| 25David MossR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 09:47 |
| 26Marcus NilsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 06:55 |
| 40Alex TanguayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:13 |
| 41Dustin BoydC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:44 |
| 3Dion PhaneufD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 25:34 |
| 4Jim VandermeerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:39 |
| 6Cory SarichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20:11 |
| 8Anders ErikssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:25 |
| 28Robyn RegehrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25:04 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Curtis JosephG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 34Miikka KiprusoffG | L | 26 | 3 | .885 |
Minnesota Wild
| 10Marian GaborikR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 5 | 20:15 |
| 38Pavol DemitraR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 21:02 |
| 17Todd FedorukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:12 |
| 3Keith CarneyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 10:02 |
| 5Kim JohnssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 25:38 |
| 6Sean HillD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11:24 |
| 9Mikko KoivuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25:06 |
| 11Chris SimonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:10 |
| 12Brian RolstonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 21:14 |
| 15James SheppardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:26 |
| 19Stephane VeilleuxL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:41 |
| 24Derek BoogaardL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:39 |
| 25Eric BelangerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:21 |
| 92Branko RadivojevicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:38 |
| 96Pierre-Marc BouchardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:57 |
| 8Brent BurnsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23:19 |
| 41Martin SkoulaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:42 |
| 55Nick SchultzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:26 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Josh HardingG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Niklas BackstromG | W | 27 | 1 | .963 |