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Saturday, December 31, 2005 · RBC Center

Canadiens 3 at Hurricanes 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 91OVR Rod Brind'Amour Hurricanes First Star 2G · 5 SOG D 89OVR Aaron Ward Hurricanes Second Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG R 65OVR Craig Adams Hurricanes Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:34 Rod Brind'Amour (15) Justin Williams (18), Craig Adams (7) · Snap MTL 0 – 1 CAR

2nd Period

  1. 0:50 Erik Cole (13) Aaron Ward (10), Craig Adams (8) · Slap MTL 0 – 2 CAR
  2. 6:13 Michael Ryder (17) Sheldon Souray (10), Saku Koivu (20) · Slap MTL 1 – 2 CAR
  3. 16:28 Jan Bulis (6) Alex Kovalev (17), Andrei Markov (18) · Tip-in MTL 2 – 2 CAR

3rd Period

  1. 11:07 Cory Stillman (10) PPG Oleg Tverdovsky (12), Frantisek Kaberle (16) · Tip-in MTL 2 – 3 CAR
  2. 16:36 Andrei Markov (5) Craig Rivet (11), Saku Koivu (21) · Tip-in MTL 3 – 3 CAR
  3. 18:08 Rod Brind'Amour (16) Erik Cole (20), Cory Stillman (28) · Tip-in MTL 3 – 4 CAR
  4. 19:59 Aaron Ward (3) Unassisted · Slap MTL 3 – 5 CAR

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Andrei Markov D 1 1 3 0 1 -1 21:01 1.60
Saku Koivu C 0 2 0 0 1 +1 18:58 1.55
Michael Ryder R 1 0 6 0 0 0 17:57 1.20
Jan Bulis C 1 0 2 1 0 -1 20:31 0.80
Sheldon Souray D 0 1 3 0 2 -1 25:41 0.70
Alex Kovalev R 0 1 1 0 2 -2 25:25 0.65
Craig Rivet D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 21:42 0.58
Francis Bouillon D 0 0 0 0 3 +1 25:12 0.40
Pierre Dagenais R 0 0 2 0 0 0 13:33 0.15
Garth Murray C 0 0 0 0 1 0 4:20 0.05
Mark Streit D 0 0 2 1 1 0 9:18 0.05
Mathieu Dandenault R 0 0 1 0 2 0 16:07 0.02
Chris Higgins L 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:57 0.00
Mike Komisarek D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Alexander Perezhogin R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2:39 -0.05
Mike Ribeiro C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 16:31 -0.08
Richard Zednik R 0 0 1 1 1 -1 15:51 -0.18
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 0 1 1 0 0 14:03 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jose Theodore L 37 33 4 .892 59:13 0.30

Carolina Hurricanes

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rod Brind'Amour C 2 0 5 3 1 +3 24:17 2.58
Aaron Ward D 1 1 6 1 4 +1 22:38 2.23
Craig Adams R 0 2 2 1 0 +2 12:42 1.75
Cory Stillman L 1 1 3 0 0 0 21:16 1.65
Erik Cole L 1 1 2 1 1 0 20:31 1.58
Justin Williams R 0 1 1 0 2 +1 21:00 0.95
Oleg Tverdovsky D 0 1 3 0 1 0 17:22 0.90
Frantisek Kaberle D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 16:43 0.53
Chad LaRose R 0 0 3 3 1 0 14:54 0.32
Bret Hedican D 0 0 1 0 2 +1 22:01 0.28
Eric Staal C 0 0 4 0 1 -1 18:59 0.20
Niclas Wallin D 0 0 1 0 3 0 10:36 0.18
Ray Whitney L 0 0 4 0 0 0 17:29 0.15
Glen Wesley D 0 0 0 0 3 +1 8:45 0.15
Matt Cullen C 0 0 1 1 0 0 16:24 0.08
Andrew Hutchinson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 8:40 0.08
Mike Commodore D 0 0 0 0 0 0 6:23 -0.15
Kevyn Adams C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 12:38 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Gerber W 27 24 3 .889 60:00 0.15