The Montreal Canadiens handily defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning, 5 to 2, on January 2, 2007.

Final

Lightning

18-20-2

2

Canadiens

23-11-5

5

Team

TBL

MTL

1

2

1

3

0

3

Total

2

5

Summary

Team Stats

Player Stats

1st period

TBL

MTL

Doug Janik (EV) assisted by Tim Taylor and Andre Roy

1

0

Tomas Plekanec (EV) assisted by Alex Kovalev and Francis Bouillon

1

2nd period

TBL

MTL

Alex Kovalev (PP) assisted by Saku Koivu and Sheldon Souray

1

2

Filip Kuba (EV) assisted by Martin St. Louis and Brad Richards

2

3rd period

TBL

MTL

Tomas Plekanec (EV) assisted by Alex Kovalev and Sergei Samsonov

2

3

Michael Ryder (EV) assisted by Francis Bouillon and Saku Koivu

2

4

Chris Higgins (EV-EN) assisted by Mike Johnson and Radek Bonk

2

5

Lightning

Canadiens

Goals

2

5

Shots

23

27

Penalty Minutes

6

Power-Play Goals

0

1

Power-Play Opportunities

3

Faceoff Wins

22

31

Hits

17

23

Giveaways

12

13

Takeaways

11

16

Lightning

Canadiens

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Johan Holmqvist (L)	1	26	4	22	.846	58:29

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Nikita Alexeev	0	0	-1	0	1	14:09	0	0	0	0
Dan Boyle	0	0	+1	0	2	30:51	2	1	0	0
Ryan Craig	0	0	-2	0	1	17:22	0	0	0	1
Ruslan Fedotenko	0	0	-2	2	1	12:51	2	1	0	2
Doug Janik	1	0	+1	2	1	19:03	1	2	1	1
Andreas Karlsson	0	0	-1	0	0	12:14	1	0	1	0
Filip Kuba	1	0	-1	0	4	23:09	0	1	2	0
Vincent Lecavalier	0	0	-3	2	2	20:24	0	0	0	0
Eric Perrin	0	0	+1	0	4	20:11	1	0	1	0
Nolan Pratt	0	0	-2	0	0	13:35	0	1	4	1
Vinny Prospal	0	0	-2	0	2	11:54	0	0	0	0
Brad Richards	0	1	0	0	2	24:33	0	3	0	1
Luke Richardson	0	0	-1	0	0	11:06	4	4	0	1
Andre Roy	0	1	+1	0	1	4:40	0	0	0	0
Cory Sarich	0	0	-2	0	0	22:26	2	1	1	2
Martin St. Louis	0	1	0	0	0	25:30	2	0	1	0
Nick Tarnasky	0	0	+1	0	2	7:52	2	0	0	2
Tim Taylor	0	1	+1	0	0	4:30	0	0	0	0

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Cristobal Huet (W)	1	23	2	21	.913	59:57

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Radek Bonk	0	1	0	0	1	17:06	0	0	0	0
Francis Bouillon	0	2	+1	0	1	16:27	2	0	0	0
Mathieu Dandenault	0	0	+1	0	0	15:51	2	0	0	0
Aaron Downey	0	0	-1	0	1	6:14	2	0	0	0
Chris Higgins	1	0	+2	2	2	17:25	0	2	1	0
Mike Johnson	0	1	0	0	1	17:17	2	2	0	3
Saku Koivu	0	2	+1	0	2	18:42	1	0	0	0
Mike Komisarek	0	0	-1	0	1	19:16	4	1	1	0
Alex Kovalev	1	2	+2	0	3	18:17	2	0	0	1
Guillaume Latendresse	0	0	0	2	1	9:30	2	1	0	0
Andrei Markov	0	0	-1	0	2	22:39	0	1	3	4
Alexander Perezhogin	0	0	-1	0	3	14:18	0	1	0	0
Tomas Plekanec	2	0	+1	0	3	17:10	0	2	1	2
Craig Rivet	0	0	+2	0	0	21:32	1	1	4	3
Michael Ryder	1	0	+1	0	3	15:09	1	0	0	1
Sergei Samsonov	0	1	+1	0	1	14:00	1	0	0	1
Sheldon Souray	0	1	+2	2	2	22:34	1	4	3	0
Mark Streit	0	0	0	0	0	10:35	2	1	0	1