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10/3/2002
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Tampa Bay Lightning 5 , Columbus Blue Jackets 1
Shots: 31 - 25
PP: 2 of 3 (3 shots), Passing:68/80=85 %, Challenges:27/40=65 %
PP: 0 of 4 (7 shots), Passing:64/77=83 %, Challenges:21/36=56 %
Attendance: 14508 of 19758 (Ice Palace)
Ticket income: 665917 Match televised: No
Boxscore for the game:
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03:26 1-0
Brad Richards [19] (Martin St. Louis, Vaclav Prospal)PP
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28:32 2-0
Vaclav Prospal [23] (Brad Richards, Tim Taylor)
31:23 2-1
Nikolai Zherdev [12] (Alexei Yashin, Adam Foote)
32:03 3-1
Jan Hrdina [2] (Kyle Wanvig, Daniel Corso)
38:39 4-1
Ryan Craig [19] (Ruslan Fedotenko, Jason Ward)PP
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46:58 5-1
Ryan Craig [20] (Jason Ward, Ruslan Fedotenko)
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Penalty summary:
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02:11
Peter Bondra (2 min for hooking)
03:38
Rob DiMaio (2 min for hooking)
14:11
Jason Ward (2 min for tripping)
19:23
Jason Ward (2 min for tripping)
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26:57
Shane O'Brien (5 min for fighting)
26:57
Rick Nash (5 min for fighting)
37:04
Peter Bondra (2 min for slashing)
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54:06
Gilbert Brulé (2 min for high-sticking)
56:35
Radek Martinek (2 min for hooking)
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Tampa Bay Lightning scoring.
( G A Sh Hi Ga Ta PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
R Kyle Wanvig 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 6.10 7
R Rob DiMaio 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 -1 9.40 6
R Jason Ward 0 2 3 3 1 1 4 1 21.00 8
R Martin St. Louis 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 1 17.10 6
C Daniel Corso 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 6.10 5
C Tim Taylor 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 -1 9.30 6
C Ryan Craig 2 0 5 1 0 1 0 1 17.40 9
C Brad Richards 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 1 20.10 8
L Jan Hrdina 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 6.40 7
L Andrew Ladd 0 0 2 2 3 1 0 -1 17.10 6
L Ruslan Fedotenko 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 19.40 8
L Vaclav Prospal 1 1 4 0 2 0 0 1 19.10 8
D Paul Ranger 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -1 12.20 6
D Shane O'Brien 0 0 1 1 1 1 5 1 17.20 7
D Cory Sarich 0 0 2 4 1 4 0 2 28.20 8
D Radek Martinek 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 12.20 6
D Doug Janik 0 0 2 4 1 4 0 1 23.20 8
D Dan Boyle 0 0 2 1 1 2 0 1 26.30 7
(GA, A, Sv , PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
G Nikolai Khabibulin 1 0 24 0 0 60.00 10
G Marc Denis 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Columbus Blue Jackets scoring.
( G A Sh Hi Ga Ta PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
R Bryce Cockburn 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 7.50 4
R Radim Vrbata 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 10.40 5
R Peter Bondra 0 0 3 0 1 0 4 -1 20.30 5
R Nikolai Zherdev 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 -1 19.50 6
C Denis Arkhipov 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 0 11.20 5
C Gilbert Brulé 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 10.50 7
C Michal Handzus 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 -1 16.40 5
C Alexei Yashin 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 -1 20.20 5
L Alexandre Picard 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 7.50 6
L Jaroslav Balastik 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 12.40 4
L Rene Bourque 0 0 1 2 1 1 0 -1 18.20 6
L Rick Nash 0 0 6 4 1 4 5 -1 17.40 7
D Ole-Kristian Tollefsen 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 11.50 5
D Anders Eriksson 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 -1 22.50 5
D Ron Hainsey 0 0 1 3 1 2 0 -1 25.50 7
D Aaron Johnson 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 10.40 6
D Duvie Westcott 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 -1 22.30 6
D Adam Foote 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 -1 26.50 6
(GA, A, Sv , PIM, +/- Icetime Rating)
G Brian Boucher 5 0 26 0 0 60.00 5
G Pascal Leclaire 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0
Three stars of the game:
1st star: Ryan Craig
2nd star: Jason Ward
3rd star: Brad Richards
Notes for Tampa Bay Lightning:
-Brad Richards notched his 30th assist of the season.
-Jan Hrdina scored the 300th point of his career.
-Ruslan Fedotenko notched his 20th assist of the season.
-Ryan Craig scored his 20th goal of the season.
-Kyle Wanvig ended his 8 game point drought.
-Daniel Corso finally ended his 10 game point drought.
Notes for Columbus Blue Jackets:
-Nikolai Zherdev finally ended his 26 game goal drought.
Other notes:
-Rick Nash beat Shane O'Brien in a fight.
Farm game result:
Detroit Vipers 3( 16) , Syracuse Crunch 1( 14)
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1-0 DTV Justin Keller (Andre Roy)
2-0 DTV Nick Tarnasky (Marek Kvapil, Andy Rogers)
2-1 SYR Steven Goertzen (Marc Methot)
3-1 DTV Mike Egener (Marek Kvapil)
Goalies: Morgan Cey - Fredrik Norrena