Minnesota at Detroit

Shots
123OTT
Minnesota 8 12 12 0 32
Detroit 8 8 6 0 22
Goals
123OTT
Minnesota 2 2 2 0 6
Detroit 0 2 0 0 2


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. MINNESOTA, PARRISH 3 (HOLMSTROM, STREIT), 06:32
2. MINNESOTA, PARRISH 4 (EXELBY, BRUNETTE) (PP), 12:37

PENALTIES: K. TKACHUK DET (HOOKING, Minor) 01:21, J. THORNTON DET (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 10:15, R. BLAKE DET (BOARDING, Minor) 10:55, F. KUBA MIN (ELBOWING, Minor) 15:26, J. IGINLA DET (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 19:44

Period 2
3. MINNESOTA, BRUNETTE 4 (RIBEIRO, KOVALEV), 03:22
4. DETROIT, TKACHUK 5 (BERGERON, SULLIVAN), 13:31
5. MINNESOTA, LINDEN 3 (KOVALEV, BRUNETTE) (PP), 14:36
6. DETROIT, BLAKE 1 (BERGERON, SULLIVAN), 19:40

PENALTIES: A. LILJA MIN (ELBOWING, Minor) 04:14, J. IGINLA DET (ELBOWING, Minor) 04:24, N. KRONWALL DET (ROUGHING, Minor) 05:23, E. DESJARDINS MIN (ROUGHING, Minor) 05:33, R. BLAKE DET (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 08:50, T. HOLMSTROM MIN (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 09:33, G. EXELBY MIN (, ) 11:29, J. THORNTON DET (, ) 11:29, K. TKACHUK DET (CHARGING, Minor) 14:25, R. BLAKE DET (HOOKING, Minor) 14:57

Period 3
7. MINNESOTA, HOLMSTROM 2 (KUBA, PARRISH) (PP), 06:27
8. MINNESOTA, WILLIAMS 3 (UNASSISTED), 12:35

PENALTIES: B. SMOLINSKI MIN (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 02:51, C. STILLMAN DET (HEAD-BUTTING, Major) 02:51, N. LIDSTROM DET (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 03:05, A. KOVALEV MIN (FIGHTING) 03:26, J. THORNTON DET (FIGHTING, Game Misconduct) 03:26, K. TKACHUK DET (BOARDING, Minor) 04:57, G. EXELBY MIN (, , Game Misconduct) 13:15, R. BLAKE DET (, ) 13:15

Goalie Statistics

Dwayne Roloson (MIN), 20 saves out of 22 shots, W, 5-4-0
Manny Legace (DET), 7 saves out of 8 shots
Jose Theodore (DET), 19 saves out of 24 shots, L, 1-2-0

Power Play Conversions

Minnesota 3 for 12
Detroit 0 for 4

Game Stars

1 - Mark Parrish (MIN)
2 - Tomas Holmstrom (MIN)
3 - Andrew Brunette (MIN)

Player Statistics

Minnesota

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Trevor Linden         1  0  1  Even   0  1   2  6
Tomas Holmstrom       1  1  2    +1   2  4   1 17
Nils Ekman            0  0  0  Even   0  2   1 14
Andrew Brunette       1  2  3  Even   0  1   1 21
Alexandre Daigle      0  0  0  Even   0  0   1  7
Alexei Kovalev        0  2  2  Even   5  3   3 25
Garnet Exelby         0  1  1  Even  20  0   2 12
Grant Marshall        0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 10
Jason Williams        1  0  1  Even   0  2   0 18
Filip Kuba            0  1  1  Even   2  2   1 23
Bryan Smolinski       0  0  0  Even   2  3   1 21
Andreas Lilja         0  0  0  Even   2  2   0 17
Eric Desjardins       0  0  0  Even   2  2   2 23
Mike Ribeiro          0  1  1  Even   0  4   0 23
Alexei Zhamnov        0  0  0    +1   0  2   1  8
Willie Mitchell       0  0  0    +1   0  0   0 15
Mark Parrish          2  1  3    +1   0  2   1 17
Mark Streit           0  1  1    +1   0  1   1 18
   
Detroit

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Rob Blake             1  0  1  Even  11  2   2 23
Joe Thornton          0  0  0  Even  22  1   2 14
Keith Tkachuk         1  0  1  Even   6  3   3 22
Steve Eminger         0  0  0    -1   0  0   3 20
Michael Peca          0  0  0    -1   0  2   4 20
Philippe Boucher      0  0  0  Even   0  0   3 20
Mike Richards         0  0  0  Even   0  1   2 11
Jarome Iginla         0  0  0  Even   4  0   0 15
Steve Konowalchuk     0  0  0    -1   0  3   5 18
Steve Bernier         0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  0
Nicklas Lidstrom      0  0  0    -1   2  2   2 29
Dmitri Kalinin        0  0  0    +1   0  3   2 19
Steve Sullivan        0  2  2  Even   0  0   0 13
Michel Ouellet        0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  5
Zigmund Palffy        0  0  0    -1   0  1   0  9
Niklas Kronwall       0  0  0    -1   2  1   0 11
Cory Stillman         0  0  0  Even   5  1   0 17
Patrice Bergeron      0  2  2  Even   0  2   1 15
   

Financial

Attendance: 18061
Net Profit: $1 462 941,00

Game Notes

Garnet Exelby and Joe Thornton fight to a draw
Alexei Kovalev and Joe Thornton fight to a draw
Joe Thornton ejected at 03:26 of the 3rd Period
Manny Legace enters game at 06:27 of 3rd period
Rob Blake beats up Garnet Exelby
Garnet Exelby ejected at 13:15 of the 3rd Period
Garnet Exelby receives 3 game suspension
Joe Thornton receives 2 game suspension

Minor League Box Score

Houston        2
Gr. Rapids     4
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Jeff Heerema 2 (Stephane Veilleux, Wojtek Wolski)
Stephane Veilleux 3 (Ryan Bayda, Patrick Sharp)

Brad May 6 (Kurtis Foster, Tomas Kopecky)
Gregory Campbell 3 (Brett Lebda, Guillaume Latendresse)
Antti Laaksonen 4 (Nikita Alexeev, Rob Dimaio)
Joel Perrault 4 (Chris Hajt, Kevin Colley)

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Goalies
Houston: Josh Harding
Gr. Rapids: Dany Sabourin
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