National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Phoenix 4, Minnesota 2
Saturday, December 31, 2011 6:00 PM
When: 6:00 PM ET, Saturday, December 31, 2011
Where: Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Referees: Don VanMassenhoven, Brad Watson
Linesmen: Michel Cormier, Thor Nelson
Attendance: 19297
Final Scoring Summary
 
Final123T
Phoenix 0134
Minnesota 0112
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
No Scoring.
Penalties
13:59 - Wild Nate Prosser (2) Slashing
2nd Period
Scoring
6:19 - Wild Pierre-Marc Bouchard (EV) Assists: Nick Johnson , Matt Cullen
15:02 - Coyotes Daymond Langkow (PP) Unassisted
Penalties
13:59 - Wild Greg Zanon (2) Holding
 19:11 - Wild Kyle Brodziak (2) Goaltender interference
3rd Period
Scoring
4:15 - Coyotes Radim Vrbata (EV) Assists: Ray Whitney
6:16 - Coyotes Radim Vrbata (EV) Assists: Kyle Chipchura , Keith Yandle
8:12 - Wild Matt Cullen (EV) Unassisted
19:41 - Coyotes Ray Whitney (EV) (EN) Assists: Rostislav Klesla
Penalties
9:27 - Coyotes Michal Rozsival (2) Delay of game
Phoenix Coyotes
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Jason LaBarbera G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Curtis McElhinney G 0 0 0 0 0 59:46
Keith Yandle D 0 1 1 E 0 5 16:46
David Schlemko D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 17:17
Paul Bissonnette LW 0 0 0 E 0 0 8:06
Ray Whitney LW 1 1 2 +2 0 5 21:16
Taylor Pyatt LW 0 0 0 E 0 0 10:18
Rostislav Klesla D 0 1 1 +1 0 1 20:42
Radim Vrbata RW 2 0 2 +3 0 4 17:55
Patrick O'Sullivan C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 15:45
Shane Doan RW 0 0 0 E 0 3 20:01
Daymond Langkow C 1 0 1 E 0 4 20:30
Oliver Ekman-Larsson D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 21:45
Kyle Chipchura C 0 1 1 +2 0 0 12:54
Cal O'Reilly C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 11:46
Lauri Korpikoski LW 0 0 0 +1 0 0 15:53
Michal Rozsival D 0 0 0 +1 2 1 20:21
Adrian Aucoin D 0 0 0 E 0 2 17:48
Raffi Torres LW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 11:56
Mikkel Boedker RW 0 0 0 +1 0 1 17:15
Minnesota Wild
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG TOI
Niklas Backstrom G 0 0 0 0 0 58:49
Josh Harding G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00
Marek Zidlicky D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 21:02
Greg Zanon D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 17:43
Matt Cullen C 1 1 2 +2 0 2 19:11
Mikko Koivu C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 20:48
Darroll Powe C 0 0 0 -2 0 1 14:57
Dany Heatley LW 0 0 0 -1 0 5 18:34
Colton Gillies LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 9:07
Kyle Brodziak C 0 0 0 -3 2 0 16:25
Cal Clutterbuck RW 0 0 0 -1 0 5 19:00
Nick Johnson RW 0 1 1 +1 0 2 16:37
Matt Kassian LW 0 0 0 E 0 0 6:19
Nate Prosser D 0 0 0 E 2 2 19:34
Jed Ortmeyer RW 0 0 0 -2 0 2 9:57
Warren Peters C 0 0 0 E 0 2 8:03
Justin Falk D 0 0 0 E 0 0 20:55
Jared Spurgeon D 0 0 0 E 0 3 20:15
Nick Schultz D 0 0 0 E 0 0 19:09
Pierre-Marc Bouchard C 1 0 1 E 0 3 18:33
Goaltending
Phoenix
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Curtis McElhinney W (1-0-0) 30 28 2 .933 0 59:46
Minnesota
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Niklas Backstrom L (12-10-4) 29 26 3 .897 0 58:49