Tampa Bay Lightning vs Atlanta Thrashers
Regular season · Sunday, December 26, 1999 · Philips Arena
Game summary
The Atlanta Thrashers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 6–3 on Sunday, December 26, 1999 at Philips Arena. The Thrashers outshot the Lightning 26–24.
Goals came from Stephen Guolla, Andreas Karlsson, Ray Ferraro, Chris Gratton, Andrew Brunette, Vincent Lecavalier, Shean Donovan, Steve Staios and Nelson Emerson.
Norm Maracle made 21 saves on 24 shots for the win; Kevin Hodson stopped 20 of 25.
Scoring
1st period
Stephen Guolla (5)Pavel Kubina (9), Darcy Tucker (15)1–011:06 TBL · 
Andreas Karlsson (2)Shean Donovan (2)1–114:06 ATL
2nd period
Ray Ferraro (7)Ed Ward (1), Steve Staios (3)1–215:05 ATL
3rd period
Chris Gratton (9)Darcy Tucker (16), Pavel Kubina (10)2–206:27 TBL
Andrew Brunette (15)Darryl Shannon (8)2–307:08 ATL
Vincent Lecavalier (11)Pavel Kubina (11), Stephane Richer (5)3–314:02 TBL
Shean Donovan (2)Andreas Karlsson (3), Jason Botterill (2)3–415:27 ATL
Steve Staios (1)Unassisted3–515:57 ATL
Nelson Emerson (5)Unassisted3–617:20 ATL ·
Team stats
TBLATL
2426
60%40%
1/50/4
1719
2720
1110
812
59
Penalties
- 2:25 into the first period
Andrei Zyuzin · tripping2 min - 3:28 into the first period
Andrew Brunette · interference goalkeeper2 min - 6:23 into the first periodEd Ward · fighting5 min
- 6:23 into the first periodReid Simpson · roughing2 min
- 6:23 into the first periodBen Clymer · fighting5 min
- 9:08 into the first periodDarryl Shannon · hooking obstruction2 min
- 15:03 into the first periodPaul Mara · holding2 min
- 18:35 into the first periodChris Tamer · interference2 min
- 19:59 into the first periodStan Drulia · interference2 min
- 8:46 into the second periodEd Ward · interference2 min
- 20:00 into the second periodPatrik Stefan · holding2 min
- 9:41 into the third periodDarryl Shannon · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 9:41 into the third periodSteve Staios · slashing2 min
- 9:41 into the third periodMike Sillinger · slashing2 min
- 9:41 into the third periodPavel Kubina · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 13Pavel KubinaD | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 19:53 |
| 16Darcy TuckerR | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | 20:52 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 18:30 |
| 17Stephen GuollaC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10:48 |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 15:14 |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 22:23 |
| 5Bruce GardinerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | 11:45 |
| 7Ben ClymerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 18:12 |
| 8Todd WarrinerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 12:05 |
| 20Stan DruliaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:02 |
| 24Reid SimpsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 04:42 |
| 25Dan KesaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:35 |
| 26Mike SillingerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 15:25 |
| 33Freddy ModinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:50 |
| 2Paul MaraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 19:15 |
| 23Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 23:11 |
| 30Andrei ZyuzinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 18:54 |
| 56Ian HerbersD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:40 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Kevin HodsonG | L | 25 | 5 | .800 |
| 39Dan CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – |
Atlanta Thrashers
| 22Shean DonovanR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 14:10 |
| 24Andreas KarlssonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 10:35 |
| 25Steve StaiosD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +4 | 1 | 13:11 |
| 15Andrew BrunetteL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 12:59 |
| 18Jason BotterillL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 11:44 |
| 19Nelson EmersonR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 18:27 |
| 21Ray FerraroC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 14:39 |
| 42Ed WardR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 11:50 |
| 8Darryl ShannonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 0 | 14:57 |
| 11Dean SylvesterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 16:40 |
| 13Patrik StefanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 13:21 |
| 16Kelly BuchbergerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:28 |
| 27Denny LambertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 12:22 |
| 29Johan GarpenlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:11 |
| 2Petr BuzekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22:18 |
| 4Chris TamerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:58 |
| 5Gord MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25:53 |
| 38Yannick TremblayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:52 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Scott FankhouserG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 34Norm MaracleG | W | 24 | 3 | .875 |