Minnesota at Carolina

Period 1
1. MINNESOTA, NASH 8 (SEKERAS, TANABE), 10:48
2. MINNESOTA, TANABE 3 (NASH, VASICEK), 10:58
3. CAROLINA, SMOLINSKI 5 (BRASHEAR, MALIK) (PP), 14:57

PENALTIES: A. CASSELS MIN (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 01:07, K. ADAMS MIN (ROUGHING, Minor) 01:54, J. BOULERICE CRL (HOOKING, Minor) 05:50, J. HOGLUND MIN (BOARDING, Minor) 14:37, B. BOMBARDIR MIN (HOOKING, Minor) 14:48, R. NASH MIN (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 19:00

Period 2
4. CAROLINA, O'NEILL 19 (BRUNETTE, MARKOV), 07:38

PENALTIES: R. NASH MIN (ROUGHING, Minor, Misconduct) 11:30, D. MARKOV CRL (BOARDING, Minor) 14:01, L. BARTECKO CRL (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 19:34

Period 3
5. MINNESOTA, NILSON 5 (UNASSISTED), 12:03
6. CAROLINA, COLE 7 (BRASHEAR, BRIND'AMOUR) (PP), 14:51
7. MINNESOTA, ZHOLTOK 1 (NASH, CASSELS) (PP), 16:38

PENALTIES: D. MARKOV CRL (ROUGHING, Minor) 02:11, J. BOULERICE CRL (ROUGHING, Minor) 08:15, M. GABORIK MIN (BOARDING, Minor, Misconduct) 13:11, D. BRASHEAR CRL (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 14:59

Goalie Statistics

Dan Cloutier (MIN), 28 saves out of 31 shots, W, 14-9-2
Arturs Irbe (CRL), 22 saves out of 26 shots, L, 16-4-2

Power Play Conversions

Minnesota 1 for 6
Carolina 2 for 7

Game Stars

1 - Rick Nash (MIN)
2 - David Tanabe (MIN)
3 - Jeff O'Neill (CRL)

Player Statistics

Minnesota G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Andy Sutton 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 19 Jonas Hoglund 0 0 0 -1 2 2 2 21 Brad Bombardir 0 0 0 Even 2 2 1 21 Robert Reichel 0 0 0 -1 0 4 1 19 Sergei Zholtok 1 0 1 Even 0 7 0 19 David Vyborny 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 14 Josef Vasicek 0 1 1 +3 0 0 1 13 David Tanabe 1 1 2 +3 0 1 0 14 Robert Kron 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 8 Lubomir Visnovsky 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 20 Kevyn Adams 0 0 0 Even 2 0 0 12 Toni Lydman 0 0 0 Even 0 0 2 20 Marian Gaborik 0 0 0 Even 12 2 1 16 Pascal Dupuis 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 13 Rick Nash 1 2 3 +3 14 2 0 14 Andrew Cassels 0 1 1 Even 2 1 0 16 Lubomir Sekeras 0 1 1 +2 0 1 0 16 Marcus Nilson 1 0 1 +3 0 2 1 12

Carolina G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Byron Ritchie 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 9 Lubos Bartecko 0 0 0 -1 2 0 3 14 Andrew Brunette 0 1 1 +1 0 3 0 19 Brad Norton 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 5 Erik Cole 1 0 1 -1 0 2 4 18 Jeff O'Neill 1 0 1 +1 0 6 4 20 Darby Hendrickson 0 0 0 Even 0 1 1 12 Jesse Boulerice 0 0 0 Even 4 1 0 4 Marek Malik 0 1 1 +1 0 1 2 26 Donald Brashear 0 2 2 -2 2 0 1 8 Rod Brind'Amour 0 1 1 -1 0 6 2 25 Ron Francis 0 0 0 +1 0 0 2 24 Filip Kuba 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 22 Bryan Smolinski 1 0 1 -2 0 5 2 12 Danny Markov 0 1 1 Even 4 2 3 26 Andreas Lilja 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 16 Steven Halko 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 11 Martin Gelinas 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 10 Tomas Malec 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 6

Financial

Attendance: 13227
Net Profit: $694 418,00

Game Notes

Minor League Box Score

Houston        1
Lowell         1
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Nick Schultz 5 (Stephane Veilleux, Kyle Wanvig)

unknown (Jeff Daniels, Ivan Huml)

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Goalies
Houston: Andrew Raycroft
Lowell: Steve Passmore
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