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Friday, December 30, 2005 · HP Pavilion at San Jose

Avalanche 2 at Sharks 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 91OVR Nisse Ekman Sharks First Star 4A · 5 SOG C 99OVR Joe Thornton Sharks Second Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG R 97OVR Jonathan Cheechoo Sharks Third Star 1G · 1A · 8 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:00 Joe Sakic (17) PPG Brett Clark (12), Milan Hejduk (17) · Backhand COL 1 – 0 SJS
  2. 19:54 Joe Thornton (13) PPG Nisse Ekman (4), Christian Ehrhoff (6) · Wrist COL 1 – 1 SJS

2nd Period

  1. 3:04 Joe Thornton (14) Nisse Ekman (5), Kyle McLaren (9) · Wrist COL 1 – 2 SJS
  2. 5:41 Alex Tanguay (13) Ian Laperriere (13), Brett McLean (8) · Backhand COL 2 – 2 SJS
  3. 14:16 Scott Thornton (6) Unassisted · Backhand COL 2 – 3 SJS

3rd Period

  1. 2:16 Patrick Marleau (15) PPG Nisse Ekman (6), Jonathan Cheechoo (12) · Slap COL 2 – 4 SJS
  2. 5:23 Jonathan Cheechoo (20) Nisse Ekman (7), Joe Thornton (40) · Slap COL 2 – 5 SJS

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Joe Sakic C 1 0 3 0 0 0 18:57 0.98
Alex Tanguay L 1 0 2 0 0 0 15:27 0.90
Brett McLean C 0 1 2 0 1 0 11:43 0.83
Milan Hejduk R 0 1 1 0 0 0 18:36 0.70
Ian Laperriere R 0 1 1 2 0 0 16:01 0.60
Brett Clark D 0 1 1 2 1 -1 20:01 0.45
Rob Blake D 0 0 4 0 0 0 22:14 0.10
Karlis Skrastins D 0 0 1 0 3 -1 26:01 0.03
Pierre Turgeon C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 12:48 0.00
John-Michael Liles D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 15:28 -0.05
Antti Laaksonen L 0 0 1 1 0 -1 14:32 -0.08
Marek Svatos R 0 0 1 3 0 -1 13:56 -0.08
Dan Hinote R 0 0 0 3 1 -1 13:29 -0.10
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 0 1 1 -1 16:11 -0.10
Brad May L 0 0 0 1 0 -1 9:54 -0.15
Andrew Brunette L 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:55 -0.18
Ossi Vaananen D 0 0 0 3 1 0 14:28 -0.25
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 1 0 -1 9:24 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
David Aebischer L 43 38 5 .884 59:59 0.05

San Jose Sharks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Nisse Ekman R 0 4 5 0 0 +1 19:01 3.03
Joe Thornton C 2 1 4 0 1 +2 21:41 2.83
Jonathan Cheechoo R 1 1 8 1 0 +1 22:07 2.13
Scott Thornton L 1 0 5 1 0 +1 15:35 1.38
Kyle McLaren D 0 1 1 2 1 +1 22:48 0.80
Christian Ehrhoff D 0 1 1 1 1 0 13:44 0.75
Patrick Marleau C 1 0 3 1 0 0 23:16 0.73
Scott Hannan D 0 0 1 0 3 +2 25:58 0.58
Rob Davison D 0 0 0 3 0 +2 11:12 0.30
Alyn McCauley C 0 0 1 1 2 +1 15:07 0.28
Mark Smith C 0 0 5 0 0 0 10:14 0.28
Josh Langfeld R 0 0 1 0 3 0 9:37 0.28
Josh Gorges D 0 0 0 1 2 +1 15:24 0.25
Milan Michalek L 0 0 2 0 0 0 15:54 0.10
Marcel Goc C 0 0 1 0 1 0 14:42 0.08
Grant Stevenson C 0 0 2 1 0 0 16:17 0.00
Douglas Murray D 0 0 1 2 1 -1 13:29 -0.02
Jim Fahey D 0 0 2 1 0 -1 8:44 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Vesa Toskala W 22 20 2 .909 59:59 0.50