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January 17,2008  (Thursday) in Montreal,Quebec - Bell Center	Goals/Period 1 2 3 4 Tot MON 0 1 1 0 3 ATL 1 0 1 0 2	Shots 1 2 3 4 Tot MON 6 16 6 1 29 ATL 7 7 5 5 24	PowerPlay PP Game PP Season PK Season MON 0 / 4 52 / 216 (24.1%) 143 / 180 (79.4%) ATL 1 / 3 36 / 187 (19.3%) 155 / 197 (78.7%)
Start: 7:00pm Attendance: 16,181 Referees: Gord Dwyer, Dave Jackson Officials: Jean Morin, Jonny Murray	Montreal Canadiens Game #46 24-17-5 53 Pts Prev Game at NYI Next Game vs PIT Atlanta Thrashers Game #48 23-22-3 49 Pts Prev Game vs DET Next Game vs BUF Three Stars: (1) Andrei Kostitsyn  (MON)  (2) Kari Lehtonen (ATL)  (3) Marian Hossa (ATL)

Goals 1st Period 1. ATL Marian Hossa    [20]  [c290]   (Powerplay)   ( Mark Recchi [18],  Eric Perrin [19] ) 18:49 2nd Period 2. MON Andrei Kostitsyn    [12]  [c15]   ( Tomas Plekanec [25],  Andrei Markov [21] ) 5:24 3rd Period 3. MON Michael Ryder    [7]  [c92]   ( Guillaume Latendresse [5],  Bryan Smolinski [10] ) 6:02 4. ATL Pascal Dupuis    [9]  [c80]   ( Eric Perrin [20] ) 9:02 Shootout Results 1.  ATL  Slava Kozlov missed. 2.  MON  Andrei Kostitsyn scored. Winner 3.  ATL  Marian Hossa was stopped. 4.  MON  Saku Koivu scored. Goalies Goalie Career Team Decision Min GA Shots Saves Record sGAA Cristobal Huet Career MON W 65 2 24 22 15-7-5 2.37 Kari Lehtonen Career ATL OTL 65 2 29 27 9-10-2 2.85

Penalties 1st Period 1. MON Michael Ryder [1] Slashing 2 9:19 2. ATL Mark Recchi [2] Hooking 2 10:29 3. ATL Kevin Doell [1] Tripping 2 15:05 4. MON Francis Bouillon [1] Interference 2 17:30 2nd Period 5. MON Roman Hamrlik [2] Hooking 2 6:25 6. ATL Garnet Exelby [5] Roughing 2 13:03 3rd Period 7. ATL Colin Stuart [1] Hooking 2 7:00

Faceoffs
Montreal Canadiens   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Bryan Smolinski 9 11 45.0% 177 193 47.8% Saku Koivu 7 11 38.9% 433 370 53.9% Tomas Plekanec 7 8 46.7% 351 398 46.9% Maxim Lapierre 3 3 50.0% 112 114 49.6% Alexei Kovalev 0 1 .0% 16 15 51.6% Tom Kostopoulos 0 1 .0% 8 20 28.6%   26 35 42.6% 1275 1373 48.1%	Atlanta Thrashers   Game Season Player FW FL FO% FW FL FO% Bobby Holik 12 7 63.2% 511 387 56.9% Todd White 9 7 56.3% 388 426 47.7% Eric Perrin 8 2 80.0% 245 194 55.8% Slava Kozlov 1 7 12.5% 31 42 42.5% Kevin Doell 2 2 50.0% 20 17 54.1% Ilya Kovalchuk 2 0 100.0% 11 21 34.4% Colin Stuart 0 1 .0% 0 3 .0% Mark Recchi 1 0 100.0% 13 11 54.2%   35 26 57.4% 1462 1393 51.2%

Montreal Canadiens Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 6 Tom Kostopoulos RW 272 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 8:00 0:00 0:31 8 Mike Komisarek D 266 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 3 24:28 0:43 3:10 11 Saku Koivu C 695 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 0 21:14 2:44 1:02 14 Tomas Plekanec C 196 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 18:35 4:26 1:47 20 Bryan Smolinski C 1025 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 0 16:08 0:00 0:51 21 Christopher Higgins LW-C 189 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 18:53 1:30 0:27 25 Mathieu Dandenault D-RW 811 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7:36 0:00 0:00 26 Josh Gorges D 129 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 16:23 0:00 1:19 27 Alexei Kovalev RW 1037 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 20:53 5:40 2:46 32 Mark Streit D-LW 170 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 19:43 4:41 0:00 40 Maxim Lapierre C-RW 66 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 11:00 0:00 1:34 44 Roman Hamrlik D 1045 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 26:19 2:39 0:21 46 Andrei Kostitsyn LW 76 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 17:13 5:28 0:00 51 Francis Bouillon D 398 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 17:12 0:09 0:58 73 Michael Ryder RW 285 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 2 15:10 0:09 0:00 74 Sergei Kostitsyn RW 16 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 15:00 0:55 0:00 79 Andrei Markov D 457 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 26:05 6:08 3:10 84 Guillaume Latendresse LW 122 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 14:49 0:38 0:00   7491 2 4 6 5 6 29 16 17

Atlanta Thrashers Roster # Player Pos cGP G A Pts +/- PM Shots BlSh Hits IceTime PP SH 2 Garnet Exelby D 266 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 21:18 0:00 2:39 7 Mark Popovic D 34 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 0 17:12 0:00 0:21 8 Mark Recchi RW 1376 0 1 1 -1 2 0 0 1 20:11 4:02 0:00 9 Pascal Dupuis LW 404 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 1 12:54 0:00 3:20 11 Eric Perrin C 133 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 19:13 1:43 3:36 12 Todd White C 462 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 0 19:25 2:46 3:22 13 Slava Kozlov LW 1012 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 16:45 0:27 0:21 16 Bobby Holik C 1219 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 0 17:00 0:27 0:30 17 Ilya Kovalchuk LW 436 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 1 23:01 4:02 0:08 18 Marian Hossa RW 675 1 0 1 0 0 5 0 2 24:27 4:02 2:42 22 Ken Klee D 839 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 23:27 0:27 3:39 27 Chris Thorburn C 80 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 6:13 0:00 0:00 28 Niclas Havelid D 518 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 22:39 0:00 4:24 36 Eric Boulton LW 310 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6:20 0:00 0:00 39 Tobias Enstrom D 48 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 21:07 4:29 2:31 45 Kevin Doell C 7 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 7:14 0:00 0:03 49 Colin Stuart LW 10 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 13:08 0:00 0:18 77 Alexei Zhitnik D 1068 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 0 20:35 0:00 0:46   9537 2 3 5 -5 8 24 6 9

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