Dallas Stars vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Tuesday, December 23, 2008 · Air Canada Centre
XM 209 · SNET-O (HD) · KDFI
Game summary
The Dallas Stars beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 8–2 on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at Air Canada Centre. The Stars outshot the Maple Leafs 37–22.
James Neal scored a hat trick. Steve Ott, Fabian Brunnstrom, Brad Richards, Krys Barch, Mike Ribeiro, Jason Blake and Mikhail Grabovski also scored.
Marty Turco made 20 saves on 22 shots for the win; Vesa Toskala stopped 20 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
James Neal (9)Trevor Daley (9), Jere Lehtinen (1)1–003:23 DAL
Steve Ott (3)Mike Ribeiro (23), Fabian Brunnstrom (4)2–008:55 DAL
Fabian Brunnstrom (10)Steve Ott (5), Stephane Robidas (12)3–010:45 DAL
Brad Richards (9)Stephane Robidas (13), Mike Modano (11)4–014:12 DAL ·
2nd period
Krys Barch (3)Landon Wilson (5), Trevor Daley (10)5–003:45 DAL
Mike Ribeiro (5)Landon Wilson (6), Matt Niskanen (9)6–010:15 DAL- James Neal (10)Nicklas Grossmann (3), Jere Lehtinen (2)7–011:35 DAL
Jason Blake (7)Dominic Moore (10), Tomas Kaberle (22)7–115:33 TOR
3rd period
Mikhail Grabovski (12)Andre Deveaux (1), Lee Stempniak (15)7–209:20 TOR- James Neal (11)Andrew Hutchinson (1), Marty Turco (2)8–218:34 DAL ·
Team stats
DALTOR
3722
33%67%
2/30/1
1418
1722
168
1113
49
Penalties
- 2:51 into the first period
Krys Barch · fighting5 min - 2:51 into the first period
Andre Deveaux · fighting5 min - 13:38 into the first periodAndre Deveaux · roughing2 min
- 15:21 into the first periodMikhail Grabovski · elbowing2 min
- 1:57 into the third periodKrys Barch · fighting5 min
- 1:57 into the third periodAndre Deveaux · fighting5 min
- 3:14 into the third periodJames Neal · hooking2 min
- 11:30 into the third periodSteve Ott · roughing2 min
- 11:30 into the third periodPavel Kubina · high sticking2 min
- 17:20 into the third periodJonas Frogren · holding2 min
Dallas Stars
| 18James NealL | 3 | 0 | 3 | +1 | 6 | 14:31 |
| 22Landon WilsonR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 13:08 |
| 26Jere LehtinenR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 15:34 |
| 29Steve OttC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 16:39 |
| 63Mike RibeiroC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 1 | 16:55 |
| 96Fabian BrunnstromL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 15:24 |
| 3Stephane RobidasD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +4 | 0 | 24:01 |
| 6Trevor DaleyD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 2 | 23:07 |
| 9Mike ModanoC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 16:42 |
| 13Krys BarchR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 10:01 |
| 91Brad RichardsC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 16:44 |
| 2Nicklas GrossmannD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 17:01 |
| 5Matt NiskanenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 20:11 |
| 27Andrew HutchinsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16:18 |
| 17Toby PetersenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 13:28 |
| 20Brian SutherbyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 12:09 |
| 21Loui ErikssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:32 |
| 55Darryl SydorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:35 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Tobias StephanG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Marty TurcoG | W | 22 | 2 | .909 |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 12Lee StempniakR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 11:42 |
| 19Dominic MooreC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 17:22 |
| 55Jason BlakeL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 16:43 |
| 56Andre DeveauxC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 06:05 |
| 84Mikhail GrabovskiC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 15:23 |
| 15Tomas KaberleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 20:09 |
| 9Niklas HagmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:29 |
| 14Matt StajanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 17:48 |
| 18Jeremy WilliamsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:25 |
| 23Alexei PonikarovskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:25 |
| 39John MitchellC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:11 |
| 41Nikolay KuleminL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 12:10 |
| 80Nik AntropovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 17:21 |
| 4Jeff FingerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 21:10 |
| 7Ian WhiteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 20:56 |
| 24Jonas FrogrenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:12 |
| 59Jaime SifersD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:47 |
| 77Pavel KubinaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:54 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Curtis JosephG | 10 | 1 | .900 | |
| 35Vesa ToskalaG | L | 27 | 7 | .741 |