Carolina Hurricanes vs Philadelphia Flyers
Regular season · Saturday, December 22, 2001 · First Union Center
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4–3 in overtime on Saturday, December 22, 2001 at First Union Center. The Flyers outshot the Hurricanes 26–23.
Mark Recchi scored twice. Sean Hill, Simon Gagne, Darren Langdon, Sami Kapanen and Jeremy Roenick also scored.
Brian Boucher made 20 saves on 23 shots for the win; Arturs Irbe stopped 22 of 26.
Scoring
1st period
Mark Recchi (13)Donald Brashear (9), Jiri Dopita (7)0–101:47 PHI
Sean Hill (1)Ron Francis (24), Sami Kapanen (18)1–114:08 CAR ·
2nd period
Simon Gagne (15)Unassisted1–205:38 PHI
Darren Langdon (2)Sean Hill (7)2–214:47 CAR
3rd period
Sami Kapanen (18)Jeff O'Neill (15)3–203:27 CAR
Jeremy Roenick (9)Mark Recchi (18), Luke Richardson (2)3–312:04 PHI
Overtime
Mark Recchi (14)Kim Johnsson (16)3–400:27 PHI
Team stats
CARPHI
2326
53%47%
1/40/3
68
1925
1010
1020
813
Penalties
- 5:30 into the first period
Darren Langdon · interference2 min
- 13:12 into the first period
Chris McAllister · interference2 min
- 2:30 into the second period
Chris McAllister · interference2 min
- 7:57 into the second period
Sean Hill · holding2 min
- 11:10 into the second period
Donald Brashear · holding obstruction2 min
- 19:16 into the second period
Marty Murray · holding2 min
- 8:54 into the third period
Marek Malik · elbowing2 min
Season series
Carolina Hurricanes
| 24Sami KapanenR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 | 20:33 |
| 22Sean HillD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 24:09 |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19:52 |
| 20Darren LangdonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 04:12 |
| 92Jeff O'NeillC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19:54 |
| 11Jeff DanielsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 07:48 |
| 13Bates BattagliaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20:23 |
| 16Tommy VestlundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:42 |
| 17Rod Brind'AmourC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:52 |
| 23Martin GelinasL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 14:05 |
| 25Shane WillisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 15:13 |
| 26Erik ColeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:25 |
| 63Josef VasicekC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 13:25 |
| 2Glen WesleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 17:21 |
| 4Aaron WardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 20:27 |
| 5Marek MalikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 18:51 |
| 8Sandis OzolinshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 18:38 |
| 45David TanabeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 16:35 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Arturs IrbeG | L | 26 | 4 | .846 |
| 35Tom BarrassoG | 0 | 0 | – |
Philadelphia Flyers
| 8Mark RecchiR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 2 | 23:48 |
| 12Simon GagneL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 16:25 |
| 20Jiri DopitaC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 14:12 |
| 87Donald BrashearL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 7 | 15:17 |
| 97Jeremy RoenickC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 16:22 |
| 5Kim JohnssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 28:29 |
| 22Luke RichardsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 22:40 |
| 10John LeClairL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:21 |
| 19Paul RanheimL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 09:51 |
| 24Chris McAllisterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:43 |
| 25Keith PrimeauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:08 |
| 26Ruslan FedotenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:19 |
| 28Kent MandervilleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:09 |
| 29Todd FedorukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:36 |
| 39Marty MurrayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 14:22 |
| 2Eric WeinrichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 22:38 |
| 3Dan McgillisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:57 |
| 6Chris TherienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22:08 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Roman CechmanekG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Brian BoucherG | W | 23 | 3 | .870 |