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Thursday, November 6, 2008 · Pepsi Center

Wild 3 at Avalanche 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 97OVR Niklas Backstrom Wild First Star 35 SV · .972 D 68OVR Marek Zidlicky Wild Second Star 2A · 2 SOG C 69OVR Eric Belanger Wild Third Star 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:35 Pierre-Marc Bouchard (2) Marek Zidlicky (2), Stephane Veilleux (1) · Wraparound MIN 1 – 0 COL
  2. 7:44 Benoit Pouliot (4) PPG Marek Zidlicky (3), Eric Belanger (3) · Wrist MIN 2 – 0 COL

2nd Period

  1. 9:56 Andrew Brunette (5) Antti Miettinen (6), Mikko Koivu (13) · Deflection MIN 3 – 0 COL
  2. 12:18 Darcy Tucker (2) T.J. Hensick (1), John-Michael Liles (5) · Wrist MIN 3 – 1 COL

3rd Period

No scoring

Minnesota Wild

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Marek Zidlicky D 0 2 2 3 3 +2 22:39 1.85
Eric Belanger C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 18:19 1.00
Pierre-Marc Bouchard C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 15:56 0.98
Stephane Veilleux L 0 1 1 0 1 +1 20:09 0.85
Benoit Pouliot L 1 0 2 0 0 0 11:11 0.85
Andrew Brunette L 1 0 1 1 0 0 15:51 0.68
Mikko Koivu C 0 1 2 0 0 0 22:08 0.58
Antti Miettinen R 0 1 0 0 0 0 21:19 0.58
Martin Skoula D 0 0 1 1 4 +1 24:37 0.43
James Sheppard C 0 0 2 2 2 0 16:09 0.25
Krys Kolanos C 0 0 1 0 0 0 10:30 0.08
Kim Johnsson D 0 0 1 0 2 0 24:32 0.02
Derek Boogaard L 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:18 0.00
Erik Reitz D 0 0 1 4 1 -1 13:17 -0.02
Marc-Andre Bergeron D 0 0 1 0 1 0 6:56 -0.02
Cal Clutterbuck R 0 0 0 4 0 0 9:48 -0.15
Nick Schultz D 0 0 0 0 1 0 24:00 -0.20
Craig Weller R 0 0 1 2 0 0 4:21 -0.25
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Niklas Backstrom W 36 35 1 .972 60:00 2.75

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
John-Michael Liles D 0 1 5 1 0 0 23:29 0.95
T.J. Hensick C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 15:36 0.88
Darcy Tucker R 1 0 2 2 0 +1 14:34 0.85
Ruslan Salei D 0 0 4 1 3 0 24:14 0.45
Cody McCormick C 0 0 3 1 0 +1 10:23 0.43
Brett Clark D 0 0 4 0 1 0 24:53 0.25
Ben Guite R 0 0 3 2 0 0 7:42 0.22
Wojtek Wolski L 0 0 2 1 0 0 17:07 0.15
Marek Svatos R 0 0 2 1 1 0 14:03 0.15
Jordan Leopold D 0 0 2 2 1 -1 19:33 0.05
Tyler Arnason C 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:15 0.00
Adam Foote D 0 0 2 1 0 0 19:52 0.00
Cody McLeod L 0 0 0 1 0 0 7:35 -0.15
Kyle Cumiskey D 0 0 0 1 0 -1 8:10 -0.15
Ian Laperriere R 0 0 1 1 2 0 9:15 -0.20
Milan Hejduk R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 21:26 -0.22
Paul Stastny C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 22:14 -0.25
Ryan Smyth L 0 0 3 0 1 -2 22:44 -0.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Peter Budaj L 20 17 3 .850 58:06 -0.55