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Saturday, December 31, 2005 · Joe Louis Arena

Blue Jackets 2 at Red Wings 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 98OVR Nicklas Lidstrom Red Wings First Star 2G · 7 SOG C 86OVR Robert Lang Red Wings Second Star 3A · 1 SOG R 87OVR Mikael Samuelsson Red Wings Third Star 2G · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:27 Rick Nash (5) Jamie Pushor (1) · Tip-in CBJ 1 – 0 DET

2nd Period

  1. 0:36 Jason Chimera (7) Trevor Letowski (5), Cale Hulse (2) · Slap CBJ 2 – 0 DET
  2. 3:07 Nicklas Lidstrom (6) PPG Pavel Datsyuk (28), Tomas Holmstrom (15) · Tip-in CBJ 2 – 1 DET
  3. 7:57 Mathieu Schneider (11) Johan Franzen (1), Andreas Lilja (6) · Slap CBJ 2 – 2 DET
  4. 19:07 Mikael Samuelsson (15) Robert Lang (18), Henrik Zetterberg (22) · Slap CBJ 2 – 3 DET

3rd Period

  1. 4:19 Nicklas Lidstrom (7) Robert Lang (19), Kris Draper (7) · Slap CBJ 2 – 4 DET
  2. 14:26 Mikael Samuelsson (16) PPG Robert Lang (20), Jason Woolley (11) · Slap CBJ 2 – 5 DET

Columbus Blue Jackets

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jason Chimera L 1 0 2 0 0 0 16:00 0.90
Rick Nash L 1 0 3 0 0 -1 17:21 0.88
Trevor Letowski R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 15:55 0.85
Cale Hulse D 0 1 2 2 3 -1 21:24 0.78
Jamie Pushor D 0 1 0 2 2 0 17:09 0.73
Geoff Platt C 0 0 1 1 2 0 9:35 0.18
Dan Fritsche C 0 0 0 1 2 0 10:22 0.15
Mike Rupp L 0 0 1 1 0 +1 12:57 0.13
Radoslav Suchy D 0 0 0 1 2 0 21:58 0.10
Jody Shelley L 0 0 1 0 0 0 8:59 0.08
Mark Hartigan C 0 0 0 2 0 0 11:17 0.00
Nikolay Zherdev R 0 0 3 0 1 -2 15:13 -0.03
David Vyborny R 0 0 0 1 0 0 19:55 -0.05
Andy Delmore D 0 0 0 1 2 0 16:39 -0.05
Ron Hainsey D 0 0 1 2 0 -1 18:09 -0.08
Jaroslav Balastik L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 12:41 -0.15
Rostislav Klesla D 0 0 0 0 3 0 24:00 -0.20
Sergei Fedorov C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 18:04 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Marc Denis L 30 25 5 .833 37:59 -1.25
Pascal Leclaire — 13 13 0 1.000 21:53 1.30

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Nicklas Lidstrom D 2 0 7 0 1 +1 26:04 2.13
Robert Lang C 0 3 1 1 0 +2 15:57 2.00
Mikael Samuelsson R 2 0 5 0 1 0 14:03 1.88
Mathieu Schneider D 1 0 5 1 2 +1 24:34 1.33
Johan Franzen R 0 1 3 3 0 +2 15:10 1.15
Henrik Zetterberg C 0 1 4 1 0 0 18:16 0.98
Andreas Lilja D 0 1 2 0 3 0 22:44 0.98
Kris Draper C 0 1 1 0 1 +2 18:06 0.80
Tomas Holmstrom L 0 1 2 0 1 0 10:50 0.78
Pavel Datsyuk C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 18:53 0.63
Jason Woolley D 0 1 0 1 1 0 15:05 0.53
Brendan Shanahan L 0 0 5 1 0 -1 18:06 0.18
Jason Williams C 0 0 3 2 0 0 15:23 0.18
Mark Mowers R 0 0 1 2 0 0 5:50 0.08
Daniel Cleary R 0 0 1 1 0 0 9:45 0.02
Brett Lebda D 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:19 0.00
Chris Chelios D 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:25 -0.10
Kirk Maltby L 0 0 1 1 0 0 14:15 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Chris Osgood W 15 13 2 .867 60:00 -0.20