Tampa Bay Lightning vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Tuesday, March 21, 2000 · FleetCenter
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4–0 on Tuesday, March 21, 2000 at FleetCenter. The Bruins outshot the Lightning 42–19.
Goals came from Mike Knuble, Brian Rolston, Joe Thornton and Mikko Eloranta.
Robbie Tallas made 16 saves on 16 shots for the win; Zac Bierk stopped 38 of 42.
Scoring
1st period
Mike Knuble (11)Brian Rolston (14), Darren Van Impe (22)0–113:31 BOS ·
2nd period
Brian Rolston (14)Sergei Samsonov (22), Darren Van Impe (23)0–202:10 BOS · 
Joe Thornton (21)Sergei Samsonov (23)0–311:15 BOS
3rd period
Mikko Eloranta (6)Eric Nickulas (4), Sergei Samsonov (24)0–403:48 BOS
Team stats
TBLBOS
1942
49%51%
0/62/5
1517
3330
124
67
210
Penalties
- 1:16 into the first period
Robbie Tallas · delaying game2 min - 12:41 into the first period
Paul Mara · hooking2 min - 13:48 into the first periodKyle McLaren · slashing2 min
- 15:03 into the first periodBrandon Smith · high sticking2 min
- 16:05 into the first periodPaul Mara · hooking2 min
- 1:33 into the second periodFreddy Modin · hooking obstruction2 min
- 3:35 into the second periodBrandon Smith · slashing2 min
- 6:50 into the second periodPavel Kubina · tripping2 min
- 16:05 into the second periodEric Nickulas · holding obstruction2 min
- 18:38 into the second periodLandon Wilson · fighting5 min
- 18:38 into the second periodGordie Dwyer · fighting5 min
- 1:32 into the third periodDon Sweeney · tripping2 min
- 18:09 into the third periodGordie Dwyer · roughing2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24:23 |
| 5Bruce GardinerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:41 |
| 7Ben ClymerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:14 |
| 8Todd WarrinerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:44 |
| 9Brian HolzingerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:24 |
| 14Robert PetrovickyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 18:10 |
| 15Jaroslav SvejkovskyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 21:47 |
| 17Ryan JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:50 |
| 19Steve MartinsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:35 |
| 22Wayne PrimeauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:02 |
| 25Dwayne HayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:58 |
| 33Freddy ModinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 19:08 |
| 34Gordie DwyerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:55 |
| 2Paul MaraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:32 |
| 13Pavel KubinaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 22:32 |
| 21Cory SarichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:56 |
| 23Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 19:52 |
| 27Jassen CullimoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:24 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Zac BierkG | L | 42 | 4 | .905 |
| 31Rich ParentG | 0 | 0 | – |
Boston Bruins
| 14Sergei SamsonovL | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 1 | 17:56 |
| 12Brian RolstonR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 22:45 |
| 20Darren Van ImpeD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 25:46 |
| 6Joe ThorntonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 22:12 |
| 21Eric NickulasR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 11:28 |
| 22Mikko ElorantaL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 11:29 |
| 26Mike KnubleR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 21:55 |
| 10Cameron MannR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10:57 |
| 11P.J. AxelssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 17:52 |
| 16Ken BelangerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 08:06 |
| 17Shawn BatesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:06 |
| 27Landon WilsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 09:11 |
| 28Andre SavageC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:40 |
| 18Kyle McLarenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 22:36 |
| 25Hal GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 12:49 |
| 32Don SweeneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18:53 |
| 37Mattias TimanderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 12:13 |
| 53Brandon SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 22:05 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Robbie TallasG | W | 16 | 0 | 1.000 |
| 47John GrahameG | 3 | 0 | 1.000 |