Montréal Canadiens vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Saturday, December 26, 2009 · Air Canada Centre
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Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3–2 in overtime on Saturday, December 26, 2009 at Air Canada Centre. The Maple Leafs outshot the Canadiens 49–23.
Goals came from Scott Gomez, Tomas Plekanec, Ian White, Jason Blake and Andrei Kostitsyn.
Jaroslav Halak made 47 saves on 49 shots for the win; Jonas Gustavsson stopped 20 of 23.
Scoring
1st period
Scott Gomez (1)Max Pacioretty (1), Marc-Andre Bergeron (1)1–003:34 MTL · 
Tomas Plekanec (1)Michael Cammalleri (1), Andrei Markov (1)2–004:28 MTL
2nd period
Ian White (1)Nikolay Kulemin (1), Matt Stajan (1)2–115:07 TOR
3rd period
Jason Blake (1)Rickard Wallin (1), Mike Komisarek (1)2–202:41 TOR
Overtime
Andrei Kostitsyn (1)Andrei Markov (2), Scott Gomez (1)3–200:34 MTL
Team stats
MTLTOR
2349
34%66%
1/20/4
84
2019
1812
54
55
Penalties
- 2:35 into the first period
Luke Schenn · high sticking2 min - 7:04 into the first periodColton Orr · roughing2 min
- 8:53 into the first period
Glen Metropolit · interference goalkeeper2 min - 9:35 into the first periodTravis Moen · hooking2 min
- 15:40 into the first periodRyan O'Byrne · holding2 min
- 8:50 into the second periodAndrei Kostitsyn · slashing2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 91Scott GomezC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 15:50 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 24:27 |
| 13Michael CammalleriL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 18:28 |
| 14Tomas PlekanecC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19:34 |
| 46Andrei KostitsynL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:11 |
| 67Max PaciorettyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 14:42 |
| 47Marc-Andre BergeronD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 13:14 |
| 15Glen MetropolitC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:33 |
| 17Georges LaraqueR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:02 |
| 32Travis MoenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:20 |
| 36Matt D'AgostiniR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:35 |
| 40Maxim LapierreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:19 |
| 57Benoit PouliotL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12:40 |
| 74Sergei KostitsynL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:43 |
| 6Jaroslav SpacekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 23:33 |
| 20Ryan O'ByrneD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:57 |
| 26Josh GorgesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24:00 |
| 75Hal GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24:08 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Carey PriceG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Jaroslav HalakG | W | 49 | 2 | .959 |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 14Matt StajanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 23:16 |
| 41Nikolay KuleminL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 18:07 |
| 51Rickard WallinC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 08:40 |
| 55Jason BlakeL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 14:01 |
| 7Ian WhiteD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 26:12 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 22:03 |
| 9Niklas HagmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:44 |
| 12Lee StempniakR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 18:09 |
| 18Wayne PrimeauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:18 |
| 21Jamal MayersR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 05:53 |
| 23Alexei PonikarovskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:09 |
| 28Colton OrrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:40 |
| 81Phil KesselC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 21:05 |
| 84Mikhail GrabovskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:20 |
| 2Luke SchennD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 08:24 |
| 4Jeff FingerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:02 |
| 15Tomas KaberleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 27:10 |
| 22Francois BeaucheminD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 27:17 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Vesa ToskalaG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 50Jonas GustavssonG | O | 23 | 3 | .870 |