Vancouver Canucks vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Thursday, December 4, 2008 · Joe Louis Arena
PPV · XM 238 · FS-D (HD)
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Vancouver Canucks 6–5 on Thursday, December 4, 2008 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Canucks 38–25.
Jiri Hudler scored twice and Daniel Cleary scored twice. Taylor Pyatt, Kyle Wellwood, Mason Raymond, Derek Meech, Nicklas Lidstrom, Henrik Sedin and Alexandre Burrows also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Taylor Pyatt (4)Shane O'Brien (4), Steve Bernier (5)1–001:35 VAN
Jiri Hudler (10)Tomas Kopecky (3), Valtteri Filppula (7)1–105:04 DET- Jiri Hudler (11)Andreas Lilja (7)1–210:05 DET
2nd period
Kyle Wellwood (11)Daniel Sedin (13), Henrik Sedin (21)2–201:32 VAN · 
Mason Raymond (7)Alexander Edler (9), Shane O'Brien (5)3–204:13 VAN
Daniel Cleary (3)Nicklas Lidstrom (14), Brian Rafalski (14)3–309:34 DET
3rd period
Derek Meech (1)Kirk Maltby (2), Brett Lebda (3)3–403:23 DET
Nicklas Lidstrom (3)Marian Hossa (14), Valtteri Filppula (8)3–504:13 DET- Daniel Cleary (4)Nicklas Lidstrom (15), Brian Rafalski (15)3–606:08 DET ·
Henrik Sedin (4)Daniel Sedin (14), Pavol Demitra (7)4–608:20 VAN
Alexandre Burrows (7)Kevin Bieksa (9), Mattias Ohlund (9)5–618:35 VAN
Team stats
VANDET
2538
48%52%
1/31/6
148
1719
87
64
53
Penalties
- 7:15 into the first period
Johan Franzen · tripping2 min - 13:22 into the first periodKris Draper · high sticking2 min
- 15:47 into the first period
Alexandre Burrows · roughing2 min - 16:15 into the first periodJohan Franzen · roughing2 min
- 16:15 into the first periodWillie Mitchell · roughing2 min
- 16:34 into the first periodTaylor Pyatt · high sticking2 min
- 1:22 into the second periodPavel Datsyuk · tripping2 min
- 7:26 into the second periodShane O'Brien · hooking2 min
- 15:23 into the second periodHenrik Sedin · high sticking2 min
- 5:35 into the third periodKevin Bieksa · hooking2 min
- 18:46 into the third periodMattias Ohlund · hooking2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.