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» Montreal Canadiens 5 Atlanta Thrashers 1

February 26,2008 (Tuesday)
in Montreal,Quebec - Bell Center

Goals/Period	1	2	3	Tot
ATL	0	1	0	1
MON	1	0	4	5

Shots	1	2	3	Tot
ATL	11	10	6	27
MON	10	8	15	33

PowerPlay	PP Game	PP Season	PK Season
ATL	1 / 4	44 / 246 (17.9%)	210 / 266 (78.9%)
MON	2 / 4	74 / 301 (24.6%)	201 / 252 (79.8%)

Start: 7:30pm
Attendance: 21,273
Referees: Kerry Fraser, Greg Kimmerly
Officials: Greg Devorski, Tony Sericolo

Atlanta Thrashers	Game #64	29-31-4	62 Pts	Prev Game at TOR	Next Game vs NYI
Montreal Canadiens	Game #64	34-21-9	77 Pts	Prev Game at CLB	Next Game vs BUF

Three Stars: (1) Christopher Higgins (MON) (2) Carey Price (MON) (3) Saku Koivu (MON)

Goals

1st Period
1.	MON	Maxim Lapierre [5] [c11] ( Josh Gorges [6], Francis Bouillon [4] )	12:47
2nd Period
2.	ATL	Ilya Kovalchuk [41] [c243] (Powerplay) ( Todd White [23], Mark Recchi [25] )	2:04
3rd Period
3.	MON	Christopher Higgins [20] [c65] (Powerplay) (GW) ( Michael Ryder [12], Saku Koivu [34] )	2:10
4.	MON	Christopher Higgins [21] [c66] ( Andrei Markov [37], Saku Koivu [35] )	4:56
5.	MON	Andrei Markov [13] [c59] (Powerplay) ( Christopher Higgins [19], Mark Streit [34] )	8:17
6.	MON	Sergei Kostitsyn [7] [c7] ( Guillaume Latendresse [7], Francis Bouillon [5] )	9:04

Goalies

Goalie	Career	Team	Decision	Min	GA	Shots	Saves	Record	sGAA
Kari Lehtonen	Career	ATL	L	60	5	33	28	13-18-2	2.90
Carey Price	Career	MON	W	60	1	27	26	13-9-3	2.76

Penalties

1st Period
1.	MON	Michael Ryder	[3]	Holding	2	6:12
2.	ATL	Bench Penalty	[-]	Too many men/ice - bench	2	10:18
3.	ATL	Alexei Zhitnik	[6]	Tripping	2	19:30
2nd Period
4.	MON	Andrei Markov	[6]	Hooking	2	1:04
5.	MON	Tomas Plekanec	[1]	Interference on goalkeeper	2	8:19
6.	MON	Josh Gorges	[1]	Interference	2	11:09
3rd Period
7.	ATL	Alexei Zhitnik	[8]	Holding	2	1:08
8.	ATL	Joel Kwiatkowski	[1]	Holding	2	7:34
9.	ATL	Garnet Exelby	[10]	Roughing	2	14:29
10.	MON	Michael Ryder	[1]	Interference on goalkeeper	2	14:29

Faceoffs

Atlanta Thrashers
	Game			Season
Player	FW	FL	FO%	FW	FL	FO%

Todd White	9	11	45.0%	509	561	47.6%
Bobby Holik	10	9	52.6%	683	489	58.3%
Bryan Little	9	7	56.3%	129	145	47.1%
Jim Slater	3	2	60.0%	112	116	49.1%
Eric Perrin	0	2	.0%	348	302	53.5%
Chris Thorburn	1	0	100.0%	12	8	60.0%
Mark Recchi	0	1	.0%	25	29	46.3%

	32	32	50.0%	1923	1791	51.8%

Montreal Canadiens
	Game			Season
Player	FW	FL	FO%	FW	FL	FO%

Tomas Plekanec	12	7	63.2%	526	546	49.1%
Saku Koivu	8	8	50.0%	572	516	52.6%
Mikhail Grabovski	5	9	35.7%	19	41	31.7%
Steve Begin	7	5	58.3%	22	42	34.4%
Sergei Kostitsyn	0	1	.0%	3	3	50.0%
Michael Ryder	0	1	.0%	3	8	27.3%
Alexei Kovalev	0	1	.0%	26	19	57.8%

	32	32	50.0%	1786	1867	48.9%

Atlanta Thrashers Roster
#	Player	Pos	cGP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PM	Shots	BlSh	Hits	IceTime	PP	SH
2	Garnet Exelby	D	281	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0	1	15:43	0:00	2:04
3	Joel Kwiatkowski	D	268	0	0	0	-2	2	2	1	0	14:28	0:00	0:00
8	Mark Recchi	RW	1392	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	19:40	5:09	0:00
10	Bryan Little	C	30	0	0	0	-1	0	3	1	0	14:14	1:59	0:00
11	Eric Perrin	C	149	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	2	16:56	1:04	3:14
12	Todd White	C	478	0	1	1	0	0	3	1	2	20:58	4:34	2:00
13	Slava Kozlov	LW	1027	0	0	0	-1	0	3	0	1	16:05	4:09	0:00
16	Bobby Holik	C	1234	0	0	0	-2	0	2	0	0	14:49	2:00	1:49
17	Ilya Kovalchuk	LW	448	1	0	1	0	0	3	2	2	22:48	6:23	0:00
22	Ken Klee	D	854	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	18:09	0:11	2:04
23	Jim Slater	C	196	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	4	11:45	0:00	1:18
27	Chris Thorburn	C	96	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	10:13	0:00	0:00
28	Niclas Havelid	D	532	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	20:47	0:10	3:15
29	Brad Larsen	LW	279	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	2	9:14	0:11	0:00
36	Eric Boulton	LW	325	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	9:36	0:00	0:00
39	Tobias Enstrom	D	64	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	2	27:13	6:23	3:15
49	Colin Stuart	LW	18	0	0	0	-2	0	0	1	1	12:27	0:11	2:17
77	Alexei Zhitnik	D	1081	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	3	17:21	0:26	0:00

			9677	1	2	3	-15	8	27	11	24

Montreal Canadiens Roster
#	Player	Pos	cGP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PM	Shots	BlSh	Hits	IceTime	PP	SH
3	Ryan O'Byrne	D	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	15:04	0:00	0:00
8	Mike Komisarek	D	284	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	7	19:03	0:00	3:03
11	Saku Koivu	C	713	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	1	17:37	2:59	2:17
14	Tomas Plekanec	C	214	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	17:32	2:20	1:32
21	Christopher Higgins	LW-C	207	2	1	3	1	0	5	0	0	18:23	2:59	1:58
22	Steve Begin	LW-C	340	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	5	11:51	0:00	2:16
26	Josh Gorges	D	147	0	1	1	3	2	1	2	0	16:03	0:00	0:00
27	Alexei Kovalev	RW	1055	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	1	18:12	2:20	2:20
32	Mark Streit	D-LW	188	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	13:26	5:19	0:00
40	Maxim Lapierre	C-RW	84	1	0	1	1	0	1	2	1	11:59	0:00	2:20
44	Roman Hamrlik	D	1058	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	22:19	0:41	3:30
46	Andrei Kostitsyn	LW	94	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	3	16:44	2:20	0:00
51	Francis Bouillon	D	416	0	2	2	2	0	0	1	2	19:50	0:00	3:46
54	Mikhail Grabovski	C	16	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	12:31	0:00	0:00
73	Michael Ryder	RW	298	0	1	1	0	4	2	0	1	12:40	2:59	0:00
74	Sergei Kostitsyn	RW	34	1	0	1	2	0	2	2	1	15:29	0:00	0:25
79	Andrei Markov	D	475	1	1	2	1	2	1	2	0	22:26	4:38	2:49
84	Guillaume Latendresse	LW	139	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	2	9:51	0:00	0:00

			6920	5	10	15	15	10	33	22	26

Transactions Since last game)

Atlanta Thrashers Transactions

Feb 26,2008 - Erik Christensen traded
Feb 26,2008 - Colby Armstrong traded
Feb 26,2008 - Bryan Little recalled from Chicago
Feb 26,2008 - Colin Stuart recalled from Chicago
Feb 26,2008 - Joel Kwiatkowski recalled from Chicago

Montreal Canadiens Transactions

Feb 26,2008 - Jaroslav Halak recalled from Hamilton
Feb 26,2008 - Mikhail Grabovski recalled from Hamilton