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Ottawa 0 2 0 0--2
Minnesota 0 1 1 0--2
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FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: None. Penalties: Johnson, Min (interference),
11:12; Ottawa bench, served by Roy (too many men on the ice), 15:43.
SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Ottawa, Emmons 1 (Dackell, Roy), 4:59. 2,
Ottawa, Mceachern 9 (Yashin, Alfredsson), 5:40. 3, Minnesota, Hendrickson
7 (Stewart, Odonnell), 16:44. Penalties: Gavey, Min (slashing), 1:45;
Persson, Ott (Obstr hooking), 7:33; Zamuner, Ott (high sticking), 10:48;
Schastlivy, Ott (unsportsmanlike conduct), 13:36; Johnson, Min (high
sticking), 13:36; Redden, Ott (hooking), 13:56.
THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 4, Minnesota, Hendrickson 8 (power play)
(Gaborik, Kuba), 5:37. Penalties: Bonk, Ott (unsportsmanlike conduct),
5:03; Roest, Min (unsportsmanlike conduct), 7:52; Pellerin, Min (Obstr
tripping), 11:52; Dowd, Min (high sticking), 16:10.
OVERTIME -- Scoring: None.
Shots on goal:
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Ottawa 9 17 4 3--33
Minnesota 8 8 9 1--26
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Missed penalty shots: Laaksonen, Min, 10:56 second. Power-play
Conversions: Ott - 0 of 5, Min - 1 of 5. Goalies: Ottawa, Lalime (26
shots, 24 saves; record: 13-5-2). Minnesota, Mclennan (33, 31; record:
1-12-4). A:18,064. Referees: Hasenfratz, Zelkin. Linesmen: Nelson,
Sartison.
INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS
Ottawa Minnesota
G A +/- Shots G A +/- Shots
Alfredsson 0 1 +1 5 Benysek 0 0 -1 0
Bonk 0 0 even 1 Bombardir 0 0 -1 0
Dackell 0 1 +1 3 Dowd 0 0 even 2
Emmons 1 0 +1 1 Gaborik 0 1 even 3
Havlat 0 0 even 2 Gavey 0 0 even 1
Hossa 0 0 -1 3 Hendrickson 2 0 +1 2
Mceachern 1 0 even 2 Johnson 0 0 +1 5
Persson 0 0 -1 0 Kuba 0 1 even 2
Phillips 0 0 +1 2 Laaksonen 0 0 -1 2
Rachunek 0 0 +1 1 Nielsen 0 0 -1 0
Redden 0 0 +1 2 Odonnell 0 1 +1 3
Rivers 0 0 -1 2 Pellerin 0 0 even 1
Roy 0 1 +1 1 Roest 0 0 -1 1
Schastlivy 0 0 even 1 Sekeras 0 0 even 0
V Prospal 0 0 even 1 Stewart 0 1 even 1
Yashin 0 1 even 2 Sushinsky 0 0 -1 2
York 0 0 +1 3 Sutton 0 0 -1 0
Zamuner 0 0 even 1 Walz 0 0 -1 1
Forbes Healthy Leschyshyn Groin
Hnidy Foot Injury Mckenna Healthy
Krivokrasov Healthy
Blouin Neck Injury
Bartos Healthy
Game Story
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Ticker) -- Darby Hendrickson scored his
second goal of the game with 14:23 remaining as the Minnesota
Wild continued to frustrate the NHL's elite with a 2-2 tie
against the Ottawa Senators.
Minnesota, which posted a 6-0 victory over Dallas on Sunday,
battled back from a two-goal second-period deficit to move to a
respectable 5-6-5-2 at the Xcel Energy Center. Ottawa failed to
record its fifth straight victory.
"We played well tonight," Hendrickson said. "We were just
trying to stay alive in the first period. ... We got a tie when
we shouldn't have. We just need to build on it."
Hendrickson brought Minnesota within 2-1 at 16:44 of the second
period. Senators goaltender Patrick Lalime stopped a shot from
defenseman Sean O'Donnell. Cam Stewart barely got a stick on
the rebound but enough to get the puck over to Hendrickson, who
beat a vulnerable Lalime from the right side of the crease.
Ottawa clung to the one-goal lead until Radek Bonk was penalized
for unsportsmanlike conduct at 5:03 of the third period. With
34 seconds gone in the power play, Hendrickson banged home a
pretty feed from rookie Marian Gaborik at the doorstep for his
fourth goal in two games and eighth of the season.
"If you don't go hard to the net, good things aren't going to
happen," Hendrickson said. "I've been going hard to the net the
last couple of games and I've been getting the bounces."
The tally also was Minnesota's first in 42 power-play chances.
Ottawa had a power play with just under four minutes remaining
when Jim Dowd was penalized for high-sticking. But the Senators
could not get a shot and were 0-for-5 with the man advantage.
"That was something we did right tonight," Wild coach Jacques
Lemaire said of his penalty-killing unit. "The guys are
starting to develop a chemistry. We have six solid guys who
have been killing penalties for us. The coaching staff has been
impressed. It's much better than we were at the start."
After controlling play for most of the first period, Ottawa
finally solved Minnesota goaltender Jamie McLennan for two quick
goals early in the second. John Emmons banged home a rebound
from the left faceoff circle at 4:59 for his first NHL goal, 41
seconds before Shawn McEachern notched his ninth of the season.
"That was not the outcome we were looking for," Emmons said.
"It's tough to give up a point here. We knew what kind of game
they play and we did not play our game."
The Wild had a chance to halve the deficit just over five
minutes later when Antti Laaksonen was awarded a penalty shot
after being hauled down from behind by Marian Hossa during a
breakaway.
Laaksonen made a nice deke during the attempt, but Lalime
managed to block his backhand attempt with his glove.
"When he made the first move, I thought I had him," Laaksonen
said. "He was down and when he went down he was in the middle,
and that gave him the opportunity to make the save. Maybe next
time I need to go up higher with the puck."
"I thought I was done," Lalime said. "He put a pretty good move
on and I was able to reach back and get a glove on it."
It was the Wild's third penalty shot of the season, tying the
Minnesota North Stars (1967-68) and Washington Capitals
(1974-75) for most by an expansion team. But the Wild have not
scored on any of them, with Scott Pellerin and rookie Maxim
Sushinsky missing the others.
Lalime, who posted his 10th career shutout on Saturday against
the New York Islanders, made 24 saves and is 8-2-1 in his last
11 decisions.
McLellan stopped 31 shots but is winless in his last 13
decisions (0-9-4). The Wild have scored just 11 goals in those
games.