Montréal Canadiens vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Tuesday, January 27, 2009 · St. Pete Times Forum
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Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–3 on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at St. Pete Times Forum. The Canadiens outshot the Lightning 34–24.
Goals came from Ryan Malone, Maxim Lapierre, Alex Kovalev, Vincent Lecavalier, Vinny Prospal, Steve Downie, Martin St. Louis and Guillaume Latendresse.
Mike Smith made 31 saves on 34 shots for the win; Carey Price stopped 19 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Ryan Malone (14)Evgeny Artyukhin (7)0–103:08 TBL
Maxim Lapierre (9)Andrei Markov (31), Mike Komisarek (5)1–107:15 MTL
Alex Kovalev (13)Unassisted2–108:06 MTL
2nd period
Vincent Lecavalier (22)Martin St. Louis (30), Cory Murphy (4)2–202:49 TBL · 
Vinny Prospal (12)Lukas Krajicek (8)2–314:57 TBL
Steve Downie (3)Steve Eminger (15), Steven Stamkos (13)2–417:08 TBL
3rd period
Martin St. Louis (18)Vincent Lecavalier (24), Andrej Meszaros (14)2–511:04 TBL · 
Guillaume Latendresse (9)Josh Gorges (10)3–511:26 MTL
Team stats
MTLTBL
3424
48%52%
0/42/7
1812
1824
713
1013
85
Penalties
- 3:25 into the first period
Alex Kovalev · roughing2 min - 8:43 into the first periodMax Pacioretty · roughing2 min
- 8:43 into the first period
Steve Downie · roughing2 min - 8:43 into the first periodSteve Downie · roughing2 min
- 10:56 into the first periodRyan Craig · tripping2 min
- 11:34 into the first periodAndrej Meszaros · delaying game puck over glass2 min
- 17:41 into the first periodRoman Hamrlik · hooking2 min
- 1:36 into the second periodMatt D'Agostini · interference2 min
- 10:13 into the second periodTom Kostopoulos · slashing2 min
- 10:13 into the second periodAndrej Meszaros · roughing2 min
- 11:44 into the second periodTomas Plekanec · holding2 min
- 1:33 into the third periodSergei Kostitsyn · hooking2 min
- 5:54 into the third periodRyan Malone · holding2 min
- 10:27 into the third periodRoman Hamrlik · hooking2 min
- 19:52 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 27Alex KovalevR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 19:24 |
| 40Maxim LapierreC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 16:32 |
| 84Guillaume LatendresseL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 10:34 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 22:37 |
| 26Josh GorgesD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 19:37 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 25:55 |
| 6Tom KostopoulosR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 14:46 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 16:19 |
| 14Tomas PlekanecC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:04 |
| 20Robert LangC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:46 |
| 21Chris HigginsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:58 |
| 36Matt D'AgostiniR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:24 |
| 46Andrei KostitsynL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:53 |
| 67Max PaciorettyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:29 |
| 74Sergei KostitsynL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:16 |
| 3Ryan O'ByrneD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:38 |
| 44Roman HamrlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 21:23 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 13:48 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Carey PriceG | L | 24 | 5 | .792 |
| 41Jaroslav HalakG | 0 | 0 | – |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 8 | 20:55 |
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 | 20:41 |
| 9Steve DownieR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 08:55 |
| 12Ryan MaloneL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:58 |
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:27 |
| 76Evgeny ArtyukhinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12:21 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 08:18 |
| 2Lukas KrajicekD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 19:03 |
| 14Andrej MeszarosD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 27:22 |
| 21Cory MurphyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15:49 |
| 44Steve EmingerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 25:37 |
| 8Mark RecchiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16:35 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:24 |
| 24Matt PettingerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:15 |
| 33David KociL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 02:10 |
| 34Ryan CraigC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 09:48 |
| 36Jussi JokinenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 11:33 |
| 54Paul RangerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 26:07 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Karri RamoG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Mike SmithG | W | 34 | 3 | .912 |