Tampa Bay Lightning vs New Jersey Devils
Regular season · Tuesday, January 15, 2002 · Continental Airlines Arena
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the New Jersey Devils 5–4 in overtime on Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at Continental Airlines Arena. The Devils outshot the Lightning 40–17.
Zdeno Ciger scored a hat trick. Christian Berglund, Martin St. Louis, John Madden, Vincent Lecavalier, Petr Sykora and Patrik Elias also scored.
Nikolai Khabibulin made 20 saves on 21 shots for the win; Martin Brodeur stopped 12 of 17.
Scoring
1st period
Christian Berglund (1)Jason Arnott (16), Petr Sykora (16)0–101:30 NJD
Zdeno Ciger (8)Jassen Cullimore (5), Juha Ylonen (6)1–105:47 TBL
Martin St. Louis (13)Vincent Lecavalier (12), Zdeno Ciger (9)2–117:34 TBL ·
2nd period
John Madden (7)Christian Berglund (3), Scott Stevens (9)2–200:38 NJD- Zdeno Ciger (9)Vincent Lecavalier (13), Juha Ylonen (7)3–201:00 TBL
Vincent Lecavalier (8)Unassisted4–201:31 TBL · 
Petr Sykora (13)Scott Gomez (19), Jason Arnott (17)4–304:22 NJD ·
3rd period
Patrik Elias (17)Scott Gomez (20), Sergei Nemchinov (2)4–407:58 NJD
Overtime
- Zdeno Ciger (10)Vincent Lecavalier (14)5–401:25 TBL
Team stats
TBLNJD
1740
34%66%
2/41/2
610
2120
178
412
2118
Penalties
- 11:14 into the first period
Colin White · slashing2 min - 11:14 into the first period
Zdeno Ciger · interference2 min - 16:22 into the first periodPetr Sykora · hooking2 min
- 18:23 into the first periodChristian Berglund · holding2 min
- 1:00 into the second periodColin White · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 3:44 into the second periodVincent Lecavalier · tripping2 min
- 8:12 into the second periodBruce Gardiner · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 10:55 into the second periodDave Andreychuk · tripping2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 1 | 3 | 4 | +3 | 1 | 16:09 |
| 18Zdeno CigerL | 3 | 1 | 4 | +2 | 4 | 15:35 |
| 16Juha YlonenC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 17:22 |
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 16:21 |
| 5Jassen CullimoreD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 21:02 |
| 7Ben ClymerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:09 |
| 19Brad RichardsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 16:23 |
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:33 |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:48 |
| 27Tim TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:21 |
| 33Freddy ModinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 16:28 |
| 34Gordie DwyerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:26 |
| 2Stan NeckarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 19:25 |
| 3Grant LedyardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:16 |
| 13Pavel KubinaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 23:18 |
| 21Cory SarichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:39 |
| 22Dan BoyleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:28 |
| 43Mathieu BironD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:02 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | W | 21 | 1 | .952 |
| 80Kevin WeekesG | 19 | 3 | .842 |
New Jersey Devils
| 10Christian BerglundL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 17:22 |
| 17Petr SykoraR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 19:45 |
| 23Scott GomezC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 18:13 |
| 25Jason ArnottC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 19:26 |
| 11John MaddenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 09:19 |
| 12Sergei NemchinovL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15:49 |
| 26Patrik EliasC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 17:50 |
| 4Scott StevensD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 25:48 |
| 9Bruce GardinerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:12 |
| 16Bobby HolikC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:56 |
| 18Sergei BrylinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:57 |
| 19Jim McKenzieL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:29 |
| 20Jay PandolfoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 09:19 |
| 2Mike CommodoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:23 |
| 5Colin WhiteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:17 |
| 7Andrei ZyuzinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:14 |
| 27Scott NiedermayerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | 23:19 |
| 28Brian RafalskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20:37 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jean-Francois DamphousseG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Martin BrodeurG | L | 17 | 5 | .706 |