Washington Capitals vs Carolina Hurricanes
Regular season · Sunday, December 2, 2001 · Entertainment and Sports Arena
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4–3 in overtime on Sunday, December 2, 2001 at Entertainment and Sports Arena. The Capitals outshot the Hurricanes 27–26.
Goals came from Rod Brind'Amour, Bates Battaglia, Ulf Dahlen, Jeff O'Neill, Ken Klee, Dmitri Khristich and Jeff Halpern.
Olie Kolzig made 23 saves on 26 shots for the win; Tom Barrasso stopped 23 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Rod Brind'Amour (7)Sandis Ozolinsh (13)0–103:54 CAR · 
Bates Battaglia (4)Sami Kapanen (13), Rod Brind'Amour (8)0–209:53 CAR
Ulf Dahlen (11)Jaromir Jagr (13)1–214:07 WSH · 
Jeff O'Neill (15)Ron Francis (19), Sami Kapanen (14)1–319:22 CAR ·
3rd period
Ken Klee (2)Adam Oates (18), Sylvain Cote (9)2–311:29 WSH
Dmitri Khristich (2)Sergei Gonchar (16), Jaromir Jagr (14)3–319:04 WSH
Overtime
Jeff Halpern (3)Frantisek Kucera (3), Ulf Dahlen (16)4–303:24 WSH
Team stats
WSHCAR
2726
39%61%
1/32/6
148
1627
1611
612
617
Penalties
- 2:30 into the first period
Matt Pettinger · high sticking2 min - 13:16 into the first period
Rod Brind'Amour · interference2 min - 16:24 into the first periodJoe Reekie · interference2 min
- 17:43 into the first periodKen Klee · cross checking2 min
- 18:47 into the first periodSergei Gonchar · roughing2 min
- 4:21 into the second periodKen Klee · interference2 min
- 10:39 into the second periodNiclas Wallin · roughing2 min
- 14:03 into the second periodShane Willis · high sticking2 min
- 14:03 into the second periodChris Simon · roughing2 min
- 18:54 into the second periodRod Brind'Amour · high sticking2 min
- 4:04 into the third periodAndrei Nikolishin · cross checking2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 10Ulf DahlenR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 4 | 19:51 |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 22:44 |
| 8Dmitri KhristichR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 12:39 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 10:21 |
| 77Adam OatesC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 27:12 |
| 2Ken KleeD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:47 |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 24:45 |
| 4Frantisek KuceraD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 24:27 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 24:44 |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:50 |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 22:04 |
| 13Andrei NikolishinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 20:20 |
| 14Joe SaccoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:42 |
| 17Chris SimonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:25 |
| 18Matt PettingerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:26 |
| 46Michael FarrellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:44 |
| 19Brendan WittD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:48 |
| 29Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:16 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | W | 26 | 3 | .885 |
Carolina Hurricanes
| 17Rod Brind'AmourC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 24:04 |
| 24Sami KapanenR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 25:00 |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 24:33 |
| 13Bates BattagliaL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21:15 |
| 92Jeff O'NeillC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 4 | 24:50 |
| 8Sandis OzolinshD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 15:41 |
| 11Jeff DanielsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:01 |
| 19Chris DingmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:40 |
| 20Darren LangdonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 02:21 |
| 23Martin GelinasL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:00 |
| 25Shane WillisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:39 |
| 26Erik ColeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:13 |
| 63Josef VasicekC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:50 |
| 2Glen WesleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 20:20 |
| 4Aaron WardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 22:14 |
| 5Marek MalikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 24:24 |
| 7Niclas WallinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:16 |
| 45David TanabeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 22:37 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Arturs IrbeG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Tom BarrassoG | L | 27 | 4 | .852 |