Detroit Red Wings vs Colorado Avalanche
Regular season · Saturday, December 27, 2008 · Pepsi Center
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Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Detroit Red Wings 4–3 in a shootout on Saturday, December 27, 2008 at Pepsi Center. The Red Wings outshot the Avalanche 44–32.
Goals came from Ruslan Salei, Ryan Smyth, John-Michael Liles, Pavel Datsyuk, Tomas Holmstrom and Johan Franzen.
Peter Budaj made 41 saves on 44 shots for the win; Ty Conklin stopped 29 of 32.
Scoring
1st period
Ruslan Salei (1)David Jones (4), Darcy Tucker (4)0–105:32 COL · 
Ryan Smyth (12)Milan Hejduk (14), John-Michael Liles (13)0–210:05 COL · 
John-Michael Liles (4)Ryan Smyth (13)0–314:17 COL ·
2nd period
Pavel Datsyuk (14)Tomas Holmstrom (10), Mikael Samuelsson (17)1–314:06 DET · 
Tomas Holmstrom (11)Mikael Samuelsson (18), Niklas Kronwall (13)2–315:38 DET · 
Johan Franzen (15)Brian Rafalski (21), Tomas Holmstrom (11)3–318:03 DET
Team stats
DETCOL
4432
63%37%
2/53/6
1210
1733
1122
88
1015
Penalties
- 4:30 into the first period
Chris Chelios · holding2 min - 8:45 into the first periodTomas Kopecky · interference2 min
- 14:11 into the first periodNiklas Kronwall · interference2 min
- 1:33 into the second periodAndreas Lilja · high sticking2 min
- 3:23 into the second period
Ruslan Salei · slashing2 min - 6:18 into the second periodValtteri Filppula · hooking2 min
- 10:50 into the second periodMarian Hossa · tripping2 min
- 12:31 into the second periodJohn-Michael Liles · hooking2 min
- 15:09 into the second periodAdam Foote · hooking2 min
- 0:47 into the third periodAdam Foote · slashing2 min
- 3:29 into the third periodRuslan Salei · high sticking2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 96Tomas HolmstromL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 2 | 15:49 |
| 37Mikael SamuelssonR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 13:53 |
| 13Pavel DatsyukC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 19:14 |
| 93Johan FranzenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | 19:43 |
| 28Brian RafalskiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 27:39 |
| 55Niklas KronwallD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 29:25 |
| 11Daniel ClearyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:47 |
| 18Kirk MaltbyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:37 |
| 26Jiri HudlerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13:34 |
| 33Kris DraperC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:15 |
| 40Henrik ZetterbergC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 22:08 |
| 51Valtteri FilppulaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:56 |
| 81Marian HossaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20:59 |
| 82Tomas KopeckyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:26 |
| 3Andreas LiljaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:41 |
| 22Brett LebdaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 13:34 |
| 23Brad StuartD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 25:40 |
| 24Chris CheliosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:15 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Ty ConklinG | O | 32 | 3 | .906 |
| 30Chris OsgoodG | 0 | 0 | – |
Colorado Avalanche
| 94Ryan SmythL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 22:19 |
| 4John-Michael LilesD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 20:47 |
| 16Darcy TuckerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 12:12 |
| 23Milan HejdukR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21:23 |
| 54David JonesR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:17 |
| 24Ruslan SaleiD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 17:13 |
| 8Wojtek WolskiL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17:37 |
| 14Ian LaperriereR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:20 |
| 28Ben GuiteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 10:50 |
| 37T.J. HensickC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:31 |
| 39Tyler ArnasonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 19:15 |
| 40Marek SvatosR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:03 |
| 42Chris StewartR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:49 |
| 55Cody McLeodL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:21 |
| 5Brett ClarkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 29:46 |
| 22Scott HannanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24:53 |
| 44Jordan LeopoldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:55 |
| 52Adam FooteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:25 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Andrew RaycroftG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Peter BudajG | W | 44 | 3 | .932 |