Montréal Canadiens vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Thursday, April 2, 2009 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
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Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the New York Islanders 5–1 on Thursday, April 2, 2009 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Canadiens outshot the Islanders 38–27.
Goals came from Saku Koivu, Mathieu Schneider, Alex Tanguay, Andrei Markov, Jeff Tambellini and Mike Komisarek.
Scoring
1st period
Saku Koivu (16)Alex Kovalev (34)1–013:03 MTL · 
Mathieu Schneider (8)Andrei Markov (52), Alex Kovalev (35)2–018:31 MTL ·
2nd period
Alex Tanguay (15)Josh Gorges (18)3–001:11 MTL
Andrei Markov (12)Saku Koivu (31), Alex Kovalev (36)4–003:12 MTL · 
Jeff Tambellini (7)Unassisted4–109:05 NYI
3rd period
Mike Komisarek (2)Unassisted5–100:44 MTL
Team stats
MTLNYI
3827
65%35%
3/80/2
1628
1322
1216
1812
1524
Penalties
- 5:58 into the first period
Mike Komisarek · roughing2 min - 10:24 into the first periodTom Kostopoulos · holding2 min
- 12:29 into the first period
Sean Bentivoglio · holding2 min - 13:56 into the first periodBlake Comeau · charging2 min
- 18:24 into the first periodTim Jackman · cross checking2 min
- 2:44 into the second periodTim Jackman · slashing2 min
- 3:15 into the second periodGeorges Laraque · fighting5 min
- 3:15 into the second periodJoel Rechlicz · fighting5 min
- 10:40 into the third periodTim Jackman · hooking2 min
- 16:16 into the third periodGlen Metropolit · fighting5 min
- 16:16 into the third periodDoug Weight · roughing2 min
- 16:16 into the third periodDoug Weight · fighting5 min
- 17:30 into the third periodMathieu Dandenault · hooking2 min
- 17:57 into the third periodJeff Tambellini · high sticking double minor4 min
- 20:00 into the third periodFrans Nielsen · slashing2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.