Washington Capitals vs Florida Panthers
Regular season · Wednesday, December 19, 2001 · National Car Rental Center
Game summary
The Florida Panthers beat the Washington Capitals 5–2 on Wednesday, December 19, 2001 at National Car Rental Center. The Panthers outshot the Capitals 37–24.
Goals came from Jason Wiemer, Dan Boyle, Bill Lindsay, Olli Jokinen, Chris Simon, Joe Reekie and Brad Ference.
Roberto Luongo made 22 saves on 24 shots for the win; Olie Kolzig stopped 32 of 37.
Scoring
1st period
Jason Wiemer (5)Niklas Hagman (6), Ivan Novoseltsev (4)0–117:42 FLA
2nd period
Dan Boyle (2)Marcus Nilson (10), Denis Shvidki (2)0–206:02 FLA
Bill Lindsay (3)Ryan Johnson (3), Dan Boyle (2)0–316:22 FLA
3rd period
Olli Jokinen (2)Darren Van Impe (1), Dan Boyle (3)0–400:54 FLA · 
Chris Simon (6)Adam Oates (25), Sylvain Cote (10)1–412:12 WSH
Joe Reekie (2)Adam Oates (26), Ulf Dahlen (18)2–412:40 WSH
Brad Ference (1)Pavel Bure (13), Olli Jokinen (2)2–518:02 FLA
Team stats
WSHFLA
2437
56%44%
0/51/6
1715
1733
146
44
14
Penalties
- 3:05 into the first period
Brad Ference · roughing2 min - 9:08 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 15:05 into the first period
Sylvain Cote · hooking2 min - 0:33 into the second periodOlli Jokinen · holding2 min
- 7:30 into the second periodJoe Sacco · slashing2 min
- 8:02 into the second periodAndrei Nikolishin · high sticking2 min
- 13:14 into the second periodLance Ward · hooking2 min
- 19:38 into the second periodJoe Sacco · elbowing2 min
- 0:23 into the third periodPeter Bondra · boarding2 min
- 7:21 into the third periodDarren Van Impe · interference2 min
- 12:12 into the third periodPeter Worrell · fighting5 min
- 12:12 into the third periodStephen Peat · fighting5 min
- 18:57 into the third periodSergei Gonchar · hooking2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 77Adam OatesC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23:53 |
| 10Ulf DahlenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 20:45 |
| 17Chris SimonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14:11 |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 17:10 |
| 29Joe ReekieD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 10:14 |
| 8Dmitri KhristichR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:45 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 12:32 |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 22:24 |
| 13Andrei NikolishinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:03 |
| 14Joe SaccoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:35 |
| 18Matt PettingerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 10:01 |
| 20Glen MetropolitC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15:02 |
| 51Stephen PeatR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 05:53 |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 10:05 |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:37 |
| 4Frantisek KuceraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:36 |
| 19Brendan WittD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 22:07 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 25:10 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | L | 37 | 5 | .865 |
Florida Panthers
| 26Dan BoyleD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 3 | 18:05 |
| 12Olli JokinenC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 23:59 |
| 10Pavel BureR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 29:37 |
| 11Bill LindsayL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 03:57 |
| 14Niklas HagmanL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12:24 |
| 17Ryan JohnsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 05:20 |
| 18Marcus NilsonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 6 | 19:16 |
| 21Denis ShvidkiR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 12:21 |
| 28Jason WiemerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15:04 |
| 39Ivan NovoseltsevR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14:09 |
| 29Darren Van ImpeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 2 | 23:37 |
| 45Brad FerenceD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 1 | 16:38 |
| 8Peter WorrellL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:39 |
| 16Kevyn AdamsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 15:08 |
| 36Joey TetarenkoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 03:54 |
| 49Lance WardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 18:44 |
| 4Bret HedicanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 18:34 |
| 24Robert SvehlaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 24:24 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Roberto LuongoG | W | 24 | 2 | .917 |
| 37Trevor KiddG | 0 | 0 | – |