Tampa Bay Lightning vs Florida Panthers
Regular season · Saturday, January 1, 2000 · National Car Rental Center
Game summary
The Florida Panthers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 7–5 on Saturday, January 1, 2000 at National Car Rental Center. The Panthers outshot the Lightning 29–28.
Vincent Lecavalier scored twice and Pavel Bure scored 4 goals. Bret Hedican, Robert Svehla, Freddy Modin, Ray Sheppard, Stephen Guolla and Chris Gratton also scored.
Mike Vernon made 23 saves on 28 shots for the win; Kevin Hodson stopped 22 of 28.
Scoring
1st period
Vincent Lecavalier (12)Freddy Modin (13), Petr Svoboda (11)1–000:52 TBL
Bret Hedican (3)Mark Parrish (9), Mike Vernon (1)1–107:33 FLA
Robert Svehla (5)Ray Whitney (19), Rob Niedermayer (13)1–214:55 FLA
2nd period
Pavel Bure (22)Ray Whitney (20), Viktor Kozlov (24)1–300:43 FLA · 
Freddy Modin (8)Vincent Lecavalier (14), Stephen Guolla (7)2–301:39 TBL
Ray Sheppard (2)Ray Whitney (21), Todd Simpson (2)2–404:58 FLA
Stephen Guolla (6)Vincent Lecavalier (15), Freddy Modin (14)3–407:06 TBL- Vincent Lecavalier (13)Stephen Guolla (8), Pavel Kubina (12)4–414:47 TBL
3rd period
- Pavel Bure (23)Bret Hedican (9), Oleg Kvasha (14)4–502:58 FLA
Chris Gratton (10)Stan Drulia (9), Andrei Zyuzin (8)5–508:45 TBL- Pavel Bure (24)Viktor Kozlov (25)5–609:03 FLA
- Pavel Bure (25)Scott Mellanby (15)5–719:32 FLA ·
Team stats
TBLFLA
2829
52%48%
0/31/4
2917
820
910
98
59
Penalties
- 3:37 into the first period
Pavel Bure · hooking obstruction2 min - 6:24 into the first periodTodd Simpson · roughing2 min
- 6:24 into the first period
Mike Sillinger · roughing2 min - 9:58 into the first periodPeter Worrell · roughing2 min
- 15:50 into the first periodPetr Svoboda · holding2 min
- 19:42 into the first periodReid Simpson · charging2 min
- 7:22 into the second periodCameron Stewart · diving2 min
- 16:34 into the second periodLance Pitlick · roughing2 min
- 16:34 into the second periodDan Kesa · roughing2 min
- 17:48 into the second periodPavel Kubina · roughing2 min
- 3:54 into the third periodScott Mellanby · fighting5 min
- 3:54 into the third periodRyan Johnson · charging2 min
- 3:54 into the third periodMike Sillinger · roughing2 min
- 3:54 into the third periodPavel Kubina · fighting5 min
- 5:02 into the third periodReid Simpson · misconduct10 min
- 5:02 into the third periodKyle Freadrich · roughing2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 2 | 2 | 4 | +1 | 4 | 19:22 |
| 17Stephen GuollaC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 3 | 17:00 |
| 33Freddy ModinL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 4 | 18:43 |
| 20Stan DruliaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 0 | 20:58 |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 5 | 21:25 |
| 13Pavel KubinaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 22:18 |
| 23Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 29:36 |
| 30Andrei ZyuzinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:39 |
| 5Bruce GardinerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:31 |
| 7Ben ClymerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 14:24 |
| 8Todd WarrinerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:56 |
| 14Robert PetrovickyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:57 |
| 24Reid SimpsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 02:38 |
| 25Dan KesaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 12:59 |
| 26Mike SillingerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 5 | 23:42 |
| 43Kyle FreadrichL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:54 |
| 2Paul MaraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 17:50 |
| 27Jassen CullimoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 18:14 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Kevin HodsonG | L | 28 | 6 | .786 |
| 39Dan CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – |
Florida Panthers
| 10Pavel BureR | 4 | 0 | 4 | +2 | 7 | 26:13 |
| 14Ray WhitneyL | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 4 | 20:01 |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 21:26 |
| 4Bret HedicanD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 19:46 |
| 13Oleg KvashaC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 07:46 |
| 21Mark ParrishR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | 09:49 |
| 26Ray SheppardR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 12:57 |
| 27Scott MellanbyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13:04 |
| 44Rob NiedermayerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 21:46 |
| 22Todd SimpsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 17:52 |
| 24Robert SvehlaD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 22:17 |
| 8Peter WorrellL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:32 |
| 18Cameron StewartL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 08:58 |
| 29Ryan JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:05 |
| 2Lance PitlickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:02 |
| 3Paul LausD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:16 |
| 7Mike WilsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:10 |
| 28Jaroslav SpacekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 22:38 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mikhail ShtalenkovG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Mike VernonG | W | 28 | 5 | .821 |