National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Carolina 3, Tampa Bay 2
When: 7:30 PM ET, Saturday, January 3, 2009
Where: Tampa Bay Times Forum, Tampa, Florida
Referees: Dave Jackson, Steve Kozari
Linesmen: Mike Cvik, Mark Pare
Attendance: 15873
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Carolina 2103
Tampa Bay 2002
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
5:05 - Lightning Ryan Craig (EV) Assists: Adam Hall , Matt Pettinger
6:41 - Lightning Vinny Prospal (EV) Assists: Vincent Lecavalier
14:46 - Hurricanes Justin Williams (PP) Assists: Rod Brind'Amour , Dennis Seidenberg
15:57 - Hurricanes Chad Larose (EV) Assists: Dennis Seidenberg , Joni Pitkanen
Penalties
2:41 - Hurricanes Matt Cullen (2) Interference
 9:25 - Hurricanes Joni Pitkanen (2) Holding
 13:02 - Lightning Steve Eminger (2) Interference
2nd Period
Scoring
6:21 - Hurricanes Joni Pitkanen (EV) Assists: Justin Williams , Ray Whitney
Penalties
1:46 - Lightning Vladimir Mihalik (2) Elbowing
 17:25 - Lightning Andrej Meszaros (2) Roughing
3rd Period
Scoring
No Scoring.
Penalties
7:00 - Lightning Vinny Prospal (2) High sticking
 7:35 - Hurricanes Justin Williams (2) Interference
 13:42 - Lightning Matt Smaby (2) Elbowing
Carolina Hurricanes
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Cam Ward G 0 0 0 0 0 60:00 47:06 8:19 4:35 0 0 - - - - -
Michael Leighton G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Dennis Seidenberg D 0 2 2 +1 0 2 30 21:55 16:31 3:08 2:16 0 0 - - - - -
Tim Gleason D 0 0 0 -2 0 0 24 19:10 16:39 0:00 2:31 0 0 - - - - -
Niclas Wallin D 0 0 0 E 0 0 19 11:46 11:46 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Cullen C 0 0 0 +1 2 2 24 15:58 15:11 0:00 0:47 0 0 - - 7 8 47
Justin Williams RW 1 1 2 +1 2 3 22 15:52 11:59 3:53 0:00 1 0 - - - - -
Eric Staal C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 24 21:56 16:51 4:26 0:39 0 0 - - 8 15 35
Ray Whitney LW 0 1 1 E 0 1 21 16:06 11:42 4:24 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Sergei Samsonov LW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 22 17:37 13:42 3:55 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Tuomo Ruutu C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 23 18:27 13:58 4:08 0:21 0 0 - - - - -
Brandon Sutter RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 11 6:39 5:24 0:00 1:15 0 0 - - 1 4 20
Rod Brind'Amour C 0 1 1 E 0 0 21 16:50 10:54 3:53 2:03 0 0 - - 7 5 58
Ryan Bayda LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 10 5:15 4:21 0:00 0:54 0 0 - - - - -
Scott Walker RW 0 0 0 E 0 2 20 15:34 15:13 0:18 0:03 0 0 - - - - -
Joni Pitkanen D 1 1 2 +2 2 4 27 24:33 19:10 5:23 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Anton Babchuk D 0 0 0 +1 0 4 23 20:42 14:52 3:46 2:04 0 0 - - - - -
Patrick Dwyer RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 10 5:57 4:32 0:00 1:25 0 0 - - - - -
Chad Larose RW 1 0 1 +1 0 3 22 17:00 15:17 0:00 1:43 0 0 - - - - -
Joe Corvo D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 27 22:43 16:03 4:21 2:19 0 0 - - - - -
Tampa Bay Lightning
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Karri Ramo G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Mike Smith G 0 0 0 0 0 58:31 45:37 4:35 8:19 0 0 - - - - -
Ty Wishart D 0 0 0 -1 0 1 13 7:53 6:50 0:00 1:03 0 0 - - - - -
Vincent Lecavalier C 0 1 1 E 0 3 26 20:53 17:32 2:41 0:40 0 0 - - 8 5 62
Mark Recchi RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 18 16:44 10:20 2:58 3:26 0 0 - - - - -
Jeff Halpern C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 25 18:35 13:56 1:25 3:14 0 0 - - 14 12 54
Ryan Malone RW 0 0 0 -1 0 2 24 21:53 16:18 2:27 3:08 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Andrej Meszaros D 0 0 0 +1 2 2 21 15:31 11:48 1:33 2:10 0 0 - - - - -
Adam Hall RW 0 1 1 +1 0 1 13 8:00 6:17 0:08 1:35 0 0 - - 1 1 50
Vinny Prospal LW 1 0 1 E 2 1 22 18:57 15:55 3:02 0:00 0 0 - - 2 0 100
Marek Malik D 0 0 0 E 0 0 33 26:01 20:40 0:00 5:21 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Pettinger C 0 1 1 +1 0 0 13 9:07 8:15 0:08 0:44 0 0 - - - - -
Martin St. Louis RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 26 21:02 17:06 2:58 0:58 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Smaby D 0 0 0 E 2 1 28 18:50 16:32 0:00 2:18 0 0 - - - - -
Ryan Craig C 1 0 1 +1 0 2 12 9:35 7:49 1:25 0:21 0 0 - - 3 2 60
Paul Szczechura C 0 0 0 E 0 1 15 10:47 8:07 0:08 2:32 0 0 - - 1 1 50
Steve Eminger D 0 0 0 E 2 4 30 27:51 23:31 0:35 3:45 0 0 - - - - -
Vladimir Mihalik D 0 0 0 E 2 1 21 14:15 12:10 0:04 2:01 0 0 - - - - -
Evgeny Artyukhin RW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 20 16:01 14:32 1:29 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Steven Stamkos C 0 0 0 E 0 0 11 9:50 7:56 1:54 0:00 0 0 - - 2 2 50
Goaltending
Carolina
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Cam Ward W (39-23-5) 19 17 2 .895 0 60:00
Tampa Bay
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Mike Smith L (14-18-9) 28 25 3 .893 0 58:31