Tampa Bay Lightning vs Carolina Hurricanes
Regular season · Wednesday, January 3, 2001 · Entertainment and Sports Arena
Game summary
The Carolina Hurricanes beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3–2 on Wednesday, January 3, 2001 at Entertainment and Sports Arena. The Lightning outshot the Hurricanes 38–20.
Goals came from Ron Francis, Kevin Hatcher, Martin Gelinas, Paul Mara and Vincent Lecavalier.
Arturs Irbe made 36 saves on 38 shots for the win; Dan Cloutier stopped 5 of 8.
Scoring
1st period
Ron Francis (7)Jeff O'Neill (11), Glen Wesley (8)0–104:26 CAR · 
Kevin Hatcher (1)Rob DiMaio (10), Tommy Vestlund (2)0–208:33 CAR
Martin Gelinas (11)Sami Kapanen (15), Josef Vasicek (12)0–318:36 CAR
3rd period
Paul Mara (5)Brad Richards (21)1–302:46 TBL
Vincent Lecavalier (15)Pavel Kubina (10)2–314:07 TBL
Team stats
TBLCAR
3820
45%55%
0/71/6
2234
2522
1321
38
511
Penalties
- 2:47 into the first period
Paul Mara · high sticking2 min - 9:09 into the first period
Niclas Wallin · interference2 min - 9:39 into the first periodAndrei Zyuzin · interference2 min
- 14:05 into the first periodRon Francis · elbowing2 min
- 14:46 into the first periodDan Cloutier · interference2 min
- 1:49 into the second periodNiclas Wallin · boarding2 min
- 1:49 into the second periodVincent Lecavalier · cross checking2 min
- 6:06 into the second periodRob DiMaio · roughing2 min
- 10:12 into the second periodTommy Vestlund · tripping2 min
- 12:19 into the second periodDave Karpa · misconduct10 min
- 12:19 into the second periodMarek Malik · roughing2 min
- 12:19 into the second periodAndrei Zyuzin · elbowing2 min
- 12:19 into the second periodPaul Mara · roughing2 min
- 18:11 into the second periodNiclas Wallin · high sticking2 min
- 19:14 into the second periodStan Drulia · interference2 min
- 2:16 into the third periodJosef Vasicek · roughing2 min
- 2:16 into the third periodVincent Lecavalier · hooking2 min
- 5:44 into the third periodPavel Kubina · tripping2 min
- 6:54 into the third periodRon Francis · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 6:54 into the third periodCory Sarich · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 7:04 into the third periodJosef Vasicek · tripping2 min
- 12:39 into the third periodMarek Malik · slashing2 min
- 12:39 into the third periodRyan Johnson · cross checking2 min
- 17:42 into the third periodMartin Gelinas · cross checking2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 22:21 |
| 19Brad RichardsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 19:15 |
| 2Paul MaraD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 23:58 |
| 13Pavel KubinaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 26:41 |
| 8Todd WarrinerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 08:57 |
| 9Brian HolzingerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:20 |
| 10Mike JohnsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:48 |
| 17Ryan JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:55 |
| 20Stan DruliaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 09:28 |
| 22Wayne PrimeauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12:39 |
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 12:40 |
| 27Steve MartinsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 08:20 |
| 33Freddy ModinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 17:29 |
| 36Alexandre KharitonovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 09:25 |
| 5Jassen CullimoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 05:45 |
| 21Cory SarichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 21:15 |
| 30Andrei ZyuzinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18:16 |
| 41Maxim GalanovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:11 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Dan CloutierG | L | 8 | 3 | .625 |
| 80Kevin WeekesG | 12 | 0 | 1.000 |
Carolina Hurricanes
| 10Ron FrancisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 28:04 |
| 16Tommy VestlundL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:48 |
| 19Rob DiMaioR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16:31 |
| 23Martin GelinasL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 13:33 |
| 24Sami KapanenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14:57 |
| 63Josef VasicekC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 12:57 |
| 92Jeff O'NeillC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 21:27 |
| 2Glen WesleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 25:24 |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 26:26 |
| 11Jeff DanielsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:22 |
| 13Bates BattagliaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 17:25 |
| 20Darren LangdonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:11 |
| 27Craig AdamsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:43 |
| 5Marek MalikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:09 |
| 7Niclas WallinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 12:39 |
| 14Steven HalkoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:54 |
| 33Dave KarpaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:34 |
| 45David TanabeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:06 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Arturs IrbeG | W | 38 | 2 | .947 |
| 31Tyler MossG | 0 | 0 | – |