Washington Capitals vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Saturday, January 5, 2002 · FleetCenter
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the Washington Capitals 7–4 on Saturday, January 5, 2002 at FleetCenter. The Bruins outshot the Capitals 39–23.
Joe Thornton scored a hat trick, Chris Simon scored twice and Bill Guerin scored twice. Glen Murray, Dainius Zubrus, Rob Zamuner and Matt Pettinger also scored.
Byron Dafoe made 19 saves on 23 shots for the win; Olie Kolzig stopped 19 of 25.
Scoring
1st period
Joe Thornton (15)Nick Boynton (7)0–104:11 BOS
Chris Simon (10)Unassisted1–105:03 WSH
Glen Murray (18)Joe Thornton (29)1–207:15 BOS- Joe Thornton (16)Sergei Samsonov (23), Jonathan Girard (2)1–312:02 BOS ·
Dainius Zubrus (5)Adam Oates (33), Jaromir Jagr (23)2–315:53 WSH ·
2nd period
- Joe Thornton (17)Sergei Samsonov (24), Glen Murray (18)2–406:47 BOS
- Chris Simon (11)Peter Bondra (17), Jeff Halpern (11)3–409:28 WSH
Bill Guerin (22)Martin Lapointe (15)3–511:21 BOS- Bill Guerin (23)Jozef Stumpel (18), Sean O'Donnell (11)3–612:07 BOS
3rd period
Rob Zamuner (8)Unassisted3–708:21 BOS
Matt Pettinger (5)Chris Simon (4), Sergei Gonchar (21)4–711:36 WSH ·
Team stats
WSHBOS
2339
60%40%
2/41/3
2123
1717
1010
89
612
Penalties
- 7:49 into the first period
Trent Whitfield · slashing2 min - 10:18 into the first periodJoe Reekie · hooking2 min
- 14:28 into the first period
Glen Murray · slashing2 min - 0:15 into the second periodMartin Lapointe · hooking2 min
- 12:21 into the second periodP.J. Stock · fighting5 min
- 12:21 into the second periodStephen Peat · fighting5 min
- 12:24 into the second periodNick Boynton · fighting5 min
- 12:24 into the second periodJoe Sacco · fighting5 min
- 12:24 into the second periodChris Simon · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 3:58 into the third periodJoe Thornton · fighting5 min
- 3:58 into the third periodRob Zettler · fighting5 min
- 9:39 into the third periodBill Guerin · high sticking2 min
- 13:30 into the third periodP.J. Stock · diving2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 17Chris SimonL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 3 | 14:25 |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 2 | 19:36 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 15:42 |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 23:41 |
| 18Matt PettingerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12:09 |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 0 | 17:04 |
| 77Adam OatesC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 1 | 20:34 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −4 | 2 | 21:38 |
| 8Dmitri KhristichR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 15:00 |
| 13Andrei NikolishinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 14:49 |
| 14Joe SaccoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10:25 |
| 23Trent WhitfieldC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:45 |
| 51Stephen PeatR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:32 |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:21 |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 21:13 |
| 4Frantisek KuceraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 17:23 |
| 24Rob ZettlerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 15:13 |
| 29Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 19:15 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 14 | 1 | .929 | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | L | 25 | 6 | .760 |
Boston Bruins
| 19Joe ThorntonC | 3 | 1 | 4 | +3 | 6 | 14:19 |
| 13Bill GuerinR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 8 | 19:20 |
| 14Sergei SamsonovL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 3 | 14:48 |
| 27Glen MurrayR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 4 | 18:30 |
| 16Jozef StumpelL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 20:39 |
| 17Rob ZamunerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 09:32 |
| 20Martin LapointeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 20:52 |
| 21Sean O'DonnellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 29:31 |
| 44Nick BoyntonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +5 | 0 | 17:05 |
| 55Jonathan GirardD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 10:55 |
| 11P.J. AxelssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:45 |
| 12Brian RolstonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 21:39 |
| 26Mike KnubleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:53 |
| 42P.J. StockC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:27 |
| 62Andrei NazarovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:33 |
| 25Hal GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +5 | 2 | 28:03 |
| 32Don SweeneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:03 |
| 64Jarno KultanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:08 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Byron DafoeG | W | 23 | 4 | .826 |
| 47John GrahameG | 0 | 0 | – |