Montréal Canadiens vs Dallas Stars
Regular season · Sunday, March 8, 2009 · American Airlines Center
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Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Dallas Stars 3–1 on Sunday, March 8, 2009 at American Airlines Center. The Stars outshot the Canadiens 31–19.
Goals came from Loui Eriksson, Andrei Kostitsyn, Alex Kovalev and Chris Higgins.
Scoring
1st period
Loui Eriksson (32)Stephane Robidas (21), Mike Ribeiro (45)0–104:52 DAL ·
2nd period
Andrei Kostitsyn (23)Saku Koivu (25), Alex Tanguay (17)1–105:00 MTL
Alex Kovalev (16)Roman Hamrlik (23), Matt D'Agostini (8)2–114:50 MTL
3rd period
Chris Higgins (9)Ryan O'Byrne (4)3–105:27 MTL
Team stats
MTLDAL
1931
50%50%
0/31/10
228
3450
248
99
614
Penalties
- 2:58 into the first period
Max Pacioretty · tripping2 min - 4:43 into the first periodRoman Hamrlik · tripping2 min
- 8:37 into the first periodMathieu Schneider · high sticking2 min
- 8:37 into the first periodMathieu Schneider · high sticking2 min
- 12:47 into the first period
Mark Fistric · interference2 min - 18:51 into the first periodMike Ribeiro · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 18:51 into the first periodMike Komisarek · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 18:51 into the first periodGregory Stewart · interference2 min
- 18:51 into the first periodGregory Stewart · roughing2 min
- 19:26 into the first periodAlex Kovalev · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodSaku Koivu · slashing2 min
- 11:38 into the second periodJames Neal · high sticking2 min
- 12:48 into the second periodMike Modano · hooking2 min
- 18:22 into the third periodMike Komisarek · slashing2 min
- 19:55 into the third periodAlex Kovalev · hooking2 min
The box score appears once the game starts.