Minnesota Wild vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Thursday, December 22, 2016 · Centre Bell
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Game summary
The Minnesota Wild beat the Montréal Canadiens 4-2 on Thursday, December 22, 2016 at Centre Bell. The Canadiens outshot the Wild 34-27.
Goals came from Max Pacioretty, Jordan Schroeder, Artturi Lehkonen, Jared Spurgeon, Eric Staal and Jason Zucker.
Devan Dubnyk made 32 saves on 34 shots for the win; Carey Price stopped 23 of 26.
Three stars
Scoring
2nd period
Max Pacioretty (14)Phillip Danault (8), Shea Weber (11)0–102:01 MTL · SHG
Jordan Schroeder (1)Unassisted1–107:09 MIN
Artturi Lehkonen (7)Brian Flynn (3), Tomas Plekanec (13)1–210:35 MTL
Jared Spurgeon (2)Jason Zucker (12), Mikael Granlund (15)2–215:43 MIN
3rd period
Eric Staal (11)Mikael Granlund (16), Ryan Suter (14)3–203:08 MIN · SHG
Jason Zucker (7)Unassisted4–219:37 MIN · EN
Team stats
MINMTL
27Shots on goal34
45%Faceoff %55%
0/4Power play0/4
8Penalty minutes8
26Hits18
23Blocked shots14
11Giveaways10
7Takeaways9
Penalties
- 1st 04:14
Brian Flynn · holding2 min - 1st 13:10
Christian Folin · tripping2 min - 2nd 01:26Brendan Gallagher · slashing2 min
- 2nd 11:35Max Pacioretty · hooking2 min
- 3rd 01:29Charlie Coyle · high sticking2 min
- 3rd 04:04Jared Spurgeon · high sticking2 min
- 3rd 12:48Brendan Gallagher · high sticking2 min
- 3rd 15:27Bench · too many men on the ice2 min
Season series
Minnesota Wild
| 16Jason ZuckerL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 6 | 19:05 |
| 64Mikael GranlundC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 19:55 |
| 10Jordan SchroederC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 05:44 |
| 12Eric StaalC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 23:08 |
| 20Ryan SuterD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | 29:27 |
| 46Jared SpurgeonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 26:17 |
| 3Charlie CoyleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 19:34 |
| 7Chris StewartR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:55 |
| 9Mikko KoivuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:13 |
| 22Nino NiederreiterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:29 |
| 29Jason PominvilleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 16:04 |
| 42Patrick CannoneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:00 |
| 44Tyler GraovacC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:28 |
| 63Kurtis GabrielR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 02:15 |
| 5Christian FolinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:35 |
| 6Marco ScandellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:51 |
| 24Mathew DumbaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:31 |
| 25Jonas BrodinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 20:31 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Darcy KuemperG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 | |
| 40Devan DubnykG | W | 34 | 32 | 2 | .941 | 60:00 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 14Tomas PlekanecC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:26 |
| 24Phillip DanaultL | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 1 | 16:55 |
| 32Brian FlynnC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 13:14 |
| 62Artturi LehkonenL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 13:37 |
| 67Max PaciorettyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 1 | 21:27 |
| 6Shea WeberD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 30:09 |
| 11Brendan GallagherR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 2 | 13:21 |
| 15Chris TerryL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:37 |
| 17Torrey MitchellC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 11:03 |
| 34Michael McCarronR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11:47 |
| 41Paul ByronL | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 0 | 17:55 |
| 43Daniel CarrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 09:32 |
| 47Alexander RadulovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 2 | 19:25 |
| 20Zach RedmondD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:55 |
| 26Jeff PetryD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 26:37 |
| 28Nathan BeaulieuD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 27:43 |
| 45Mark BarberioD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 22:01 |
| 71Joel HanleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 06:35 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Carey PriceG | L | 26 | 23 | 3 | .885 | 58:41 |
| 35Al MontoyaG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 |