Minnesota at Columbus

Shots
123OTT
Minnesota 8 7 10 0 25
Columbus 13 10 3 0 26
Goals
123OTT
Minnesota 0 0 2 0 2
Columbus 3 1 0 0 4


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. COLUMBUS, ZHERDEV 3 (WELLWOOD, KOVALCHUK), 05:38
2. COLUMBUS, KOVALCHUK 11 (ZHERDEV, STORR), 07:29
3. COLUMBUS, WELLWOOD 2 (ZYUZIN, KOVALCHUK), 10:42

PENALTIES: A. KOVALEV MIN (FIGHTING) 14:59, S. AUBIN CMB (FIGHTING) 14:59

Period 2
4. COLUMBUS, NILSSON 7 (KOVALCHUK, SARICH) (PP), 10:30

PENALTIES: G. EXELBY MIN (ELBOWING, Minor) 03:41, E. DESJARDINS MIN (ELBOWING, Minor) 07:15, D. MARKOV MIN (HIGHSTICKING, Minor, Misconduct) 09:47, F. SJOSTROM CMB (HIGHSTICKING, Major) 12:10

Period 3
5. MINNESOTA, WILLIAMS 4 (SMOLINSKI) (PP), 08:27
6. MINNESOTA, PARRISH 5 (RIBEIRO, WILLIAMS), 16:21

PENALTIES: A. LILJA MIN (FIGHTING) 02:22, C. SARICH CMB (FIGHTING) 02:22, D. MARKOV MIN (ELBOWING, Minor) 04:23, W. MITCHELL MIN (ELBOWING, Minor) 04:38, S. AUBIN CMB (CHARGING, Major, Game Misconduct) 06:51 (Served by Matt Jones), G. EXELBY MIN (, ) 09:06, D. WESTCOTT CMB (, ) 09:06, T. HOLMSTROM MIN (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 10:26, J. SHELLEY CMB (ROUGHING, Minor) 14:21

Goalie Statistics

Dwayne Roloson (MIN), 22 saves out of 26 shots, L, 8-8-1
Jamie Storr (CMB), 23 saves out of 25 shots, W, 1-0-0

Power Play Conversions

Minnesota 1 for 3
Columbus 1 for 6

Game Stars

1 - Ilya Kovalchuk (CMB)
2 - Nikolai Zherdev (CMB)
3 - Kyle Wellwood (CMB)

Player Statistics

Minnesota

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Trevor Linden         0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  8
Tomas Holmstrom       0  0  0  Even   2  0   1 15
Nils Ekman            0  0  0  Even   0  2   0 18
Danny Markov          0  0  0  Even  14  1   2 15
Andrew Brunette       0  0  0    -2   0  3   1 19
Alexandre Daigle      0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  3
Alexei Kovalev        0  0  0    -2   5  3   3 22
Garnet Exelby         0  0  0    -1   7  0   2 15
Grant Marshall        0  0  0  Even   0  1   1  7
Jason Williams        1  1  2    +1   0  1   0 18
Filip Kuba            0  0  0  Even   0  2   0 22
Bryan Smolinski       0  1  1  Even   0  0   1 22
Andreas Lilja         0  0  0    -2   5  3   3 20
Eric Desjardins       0  0  0    -2   2  2   1 24
Mike Ribeiro          0  1  1    -1   0  4   2 23
Alexei Zhamnov        0  0  0    -1   0  0   1  8
Willie Mitchell       0  0  0  Even   2  1   4 18
Mark Parrish          1  0  1  Even   0  2   1 14
   
Columbus

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Geoff Sanderson       0  0  0  Even   0  3   2 17
Kyle Wellwood         1  1  2    +3   0  2   1 18
Steve Rucchin         0  0  0  Even   0  1   2 22
Aaron Gavey           0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  5
Jim Dowd              0  0  0    -1   0  1   3 15
Michal Rozsival       0  0  0    +2   0  2   0 26
Andrei Zyuzin         0  1  1    +3   0  1   1 25
Robert Lang           0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  0
Robert Nilsson        1  0  1  Even   0  4   1 17
Fredrik Sjostrom      0  0  0  Even   5  0   0 13
Nikolai Zherdev       1  1  2    +3   0  3   1 20
Matt Jones            0  0  0    -1   0  2   1 16
Jody Shelley          0  0  0    -1   2  0   0  5
Duvie Westcott        0  0  0  Even   5  1   0 18
Geoff Platt           0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  4
Cory Sarich           0  1  1  Even   5  2   2 21
Ilya Kovalchuk        1  3  4    +2   0  1   2 26
Andy Delmore          0  0  0  Even   0  1   1 14
Serge Aubin           0  0  0  Even  10  2   1  7
   

Financial

Attendance: 12916
Net Profit: $1 046 196,00

Game Notes

Alexei Kovalev and Serge Aubin fight to a draw
Andreas Lilja and Cory Sarich fight to a draw
Serge Aubin ejected at 06:51 of the 3rd Period
Garnet Exelby and Duvie Westcott fight to a draw
Kyle Wellwood injured at 15:38 of the 3rd Period

Minor League Box Score

Houston        3
Syracuse       1
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Patrick Sharp 18 (Niklas Nordgren, Stephane Veilleux)
Stephane Veilleux 6 (Mark Streit, Wojtek Wolski)
Stephane Veilleux 7 (Allan Rourke, Jesse Boulerice)

Tyler Wright 11 (unknown, Eric Weinrich)

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Goalies
Houston: Josh Harding
Syracuse: unknown
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