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Thursday, January 5, 2006 · Continental Airlines Arena

Canadiens 4 at Devils 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 96OVR Patrik Elias Devils First Star 2G · 2A · 5 SOG C 95OVR Scott Gomez Devils Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG D 85OVR Brian Rafalski Devils Third Star 1G · 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:11 Saku Koivu (9) Alex Kovalev (18), Francis Bouillon (9) · Wrist MTL 1 – 0 NJD
  2. 1:03 Patrik Elias (1) Brian Rafalski (19) · Slap MTL 1 – 1 NJD
  3. 14:15 Viktor Kozlov (9) Scott Gomez (22), Zach Parise (8) · Slap MTL 1 – 2 NJD
  4. 15:55 Scott Gomez (15) PPG Patrik Elias (2), Brian Rafalski (20) · Snap MTL 1 – 3 NJD
  5. 17:41 Chris Higgins (5) Jan Bulis (8), Andrei Markov (19) · Snap MTL 2 – 3 NJD

2nd Period

  1. 7:44 Patrik Elias (2) Scott Gomez (23), Brian Gionta (19) · Slap MTL 2 – 4 NJD
  2. 10:05 Brian Rafalski (4) Patrik Elias (3), Richard Matvichuk (8) · Snap MTL 2 – 5 NJD

3rd Period

  1. 4:05 Michael Ryder (18) Chris Higgins (7), Andrei Markov (20) · Slap MTL 3 – 5 NJD
  2. 5:45 Andrei Kostitsyn (2) Richard Zednik (6), Jan Bulis (9) · Wraparound MTL 4 – 5 NJD

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jan Bulis C 0 2 0 2 0 +1 14:59 1.40
Chris Higgins L 1 1 2 0 0 -1 10:36 1.38
Andrei Markov D 0 2 1 0 0 0 17:42 1.33
Saku Koivu C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 18:07 1.28
Andrei Kostitsyn L 1 0 2 2 1 +1 14:18 1.20
Michael Ryder R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 15:25 1.00
Francis Bouillon D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 25:09 0.78
Richard Zednik R 0 1 0 1 0 +1 21:57 0.73
Alex Kovalev R 0 1 0 1 0 0 22:04 0.48
Sheldon Souray D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 28:10 0.25
Steve Begin L 0 0 1 2 0 0 16:16 0.13
Jonathan Ferland R 0 0 1 0 0 0 7:12 0.08
Mike Komisarek D 0 0 1 0 1 0 12:41 0.08
Radek Bonk C 0 0 3 0 0 -2 16:16 -0.03
Mathieu Dandenault R 0 0 0 0 0 0 22:12 -0.05
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 16:13 -0.18
Craig Rivet D 0 0 1 0 1 -2 12:29 -0.18
Garth Murray C 0 0 0 0 0 0 6:38 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jose Theodore L 27 22 5 .815 59:06 -1.55

New Jersey Devils

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Patrik Elias C 2 2 5 0 0 +2 14:50 3.53
Scott Gomez C 1 2 3 0 0 +3 16:24 2.73
Brian Rafalski D 1 2 1 0 1 +2 23:56 2.43
Viktor Kozlov C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 9:06 1.20
Brian Gionta R 0 1 0 1 0 +2 19:11 1.03
Richard Matvichuk D 0 1 0 0 3 +2 22:57 0.93
Zach Parise L 0 1 2 0 0 0 12:24 0.88
Erik Rasmussen C 0 0 1 2 0 0 7:35 0.18
David Hale D 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:48 0.15
Tommy Albelin D 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:35 0.15
Jay Pandolfo L 0 0 3 0 0 -2 23:05 0.02
Grant Marshall R 0 0 2 2 0 -1 13:19 0.00
Colin White D 0 0 1 2 1 -2 21:28 -0.02
Sergei Brylin L 0 0 1 0 1 -1 14:32 -0.07
John Madden C 0 0 1 1 1 -2 22:21 -0.22
Cam Janssen R 0 0 2 0 0 0 4:26 -0.23
Paul Martin D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 22:19 -0.25
Jamie Langenbrunner R 0 0 1 1 0 -2 21:01 -0.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Brodeur W 20 16 4 .800 60:00 -1.40