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Matchup Edge: Montreal vs San Jose

Montreal (34-25-6-2) at San Jose (32-16-11-6)


Habs victory against Devils placed them 2 points from the 6th rank in the eastern conference. This evening, the Canadiens, will try to get their 6th straight victory. They open a trip of 4 games and they will have to face Phoenix, Los Angeles and Anaheim. The troop of Claude Julien will matchup against a hot team because the Sharks have won four of their last 5 games (4-0-0-1) and six of their last eight games to give them the 1st place in the Pacific Division. San Jose is now 6 points ahead of Dallas. Alexei Kovalev will finally not be in uniform this evening, it would have been his 4th game in 5 nights.


Projected Montreal Lineup
























LW

C

RW

Perreault (1-0-1, -1)

Koivu (1-5-6, +2)

Zednik (1-2-3, +2)

Dagenais (0-2-2, +1)

Ribeiro (2-2-4, +3)

Ryder (3-2-5, +3)

Begin (1-0-1, +1)

Juneau (1-0-1, +1)

Dackell (0-1-1, +1)

Langdon (0-0-0, 0)

Kilger (0-0-0, 0)

Ward (2-0-2, +1)

(G-A-PTS, +/-) – Last Five Games








































MATCHUP EDGE

Montreal

Edge in:

San Jose


Offense

X


Defense

X

X

Power Play



Penalty Kill

X

X

Intangibles




Overall

X





















































Recent Meetings
Date Home Away
3/6/2003 SJ 4 MTL 3
12/17/2002 MTL 1 SJ 3
1/27/2002 MTL 3 SJ 1
3/12/2001 SJ 3 MTL 0
11/23/1999 SJ 2 MTL 3
11/16/1999 MTL 1 SJ 4
3/22/1999 MTL 1 SJ 1
11/24/1997 MTL 2 SJ 2
11/7/1997 SJ 3 MTL 4
2/10/1997 MTL 4 SJ 2

Current Team Standing







































Team
G

W

L

T

OTL

Pts

Standing

GF
GA
Home/Road
Montreal
67

34

25

6

2

76

4th, NE

168

151

15-14-2-2 R
San Jose
65

32

16

11

6

81

1st, PA

168

137

17-5-7-2 H


OVERALL






















































































































Montreal San Jose
Shots Goals % Shots Goals %
Period For Aga For Aga For Aga For Aga For Aga For Aga
1st 9.0 8.4 0.73 0.55 8.1 0.934 9.4 9.1 1.00 0.38 10.7 0.958
2nd 9.4 10.0 0.84 0.82 8.9 0.918 9.3 9.8 0.69 0.83 7.4 0.915
3rd 9.0 9.2 0.87 0.85 9.6 0.907 8.4 9.3 0.88 0.80 10.5 0.914
OT 0.4 0.4 0.07 0.03 19.2 0.926 0.7 0.8 0.02 0.09 2.3 0.891
Total 27.8 28.0 2.51 2.25 9.0 0.920 27.8 29.1 2.58 2.11 9.3 0.927
Special Team






























Montreal San Jose
PP PK PP PK
Goals 48.0 45.0 42.0 39.0
Attempts 271.0 249.0 273.0 263.0
% 17.7 81.9 15.4 85.2
Montreal Goaltenders






















Name Shots Saves GAA % W/L
J.Theodore 1543 1426 2.12 0.924 27-23-5
M.Garon 329 299 2.44 0.909 7-4-1

San Jose Goaltenders






















Name Shots Saves GAA % W/L
E.Nabokov 1214 1126 2.01 0.928 22-15-7
V.Toskala 672 625 2.11 0.930 10-7-4


Top Leaders Matchup







































Player
Montreal

San Jose
Goals (FW)
Zednik (20)

Marleau (27)
Assists (FW)
Ribeiro (37)

Damphousse (23)
Points (FW)
Ribeiro (54)

Marleau (48)
Plus/Minus (FW)
Ribeiro (+13)

Ekman (+15)
Goals (D)
Souray (15)

Stuart (5)
Assists (D)
Souray/Brisebois (20)

Stuart (21)
Points (D)
Souray (35)

Stuart (26)
Plus/Minus (D)
Brisebois (+14)

Rathje (+15)

Injuries





Montreal Injuries





















Player
Pos

Injury

Status
Niklas Sundstrom
LW

Concussion

Maybe March 11
Jan Bulis
C

Leg

Late March
Sheldon Souray
D

Knee

Late March

San Jose Injuries





















Player
Pos

Injury

Status
Kyle McLaren
D

Head

Day-to-Day
Mike Ricci
C

Shoulder

I-L
Milan Michalek
RW

Knee

Out for Season

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