New Jersey Devils vs Nashville Predators
Regular season · Thursday, March 21, 2002 · Gaylord Entertainment Center
Game summary
The New Jersey Devils beat the Nashville Predators 4–3 on Thursday, March 21, 2002 at Gaylord Entertainment Center. The Devils outshot the Predators 36–27.
Sergei Brylin scored twice and Greg Johnson scored twice. Jamie Langenbrunner, Joe Nieuwendyk and Kimmo Timonen also scored.
Martin Brodeur made 24 saves on 27 shots for the win; Mike Dunham stopped 32 of 36.
Scoring
1st period
Sergei Brylin (12)Scott Niedermayer (19), Scott Gomez (33)1–009:32 NJD · 
Jamie Langenbrunner (11)Joe Nieuwendyk (26), Brian Rafalski (38)2–018:41 NJD
3rd period
Joe Nieuwendyk (24)Jamie Langenbrunner (17), Scott Niedermayer (20)3–000:26 NJD
Kimmo Timonen (10)Martin Erat (19), Denis Arkhipov (18)3–106:33 NSH · 
Greg Johnson (17)Andy Berenzweig (7)3–211:53 NSH- Sergei Brylin (13)Scott Gomez (34), Bobby Holik (24)4–214:34 NJD
- Greg Johnson (18)Kimmo Timonen (24)4–314:58 NSH
Team stats
NJDNSH
3627
55%45%
1/71/5
1014
1716
1013
57
1311
Penalties
- 8:50 into the first period
Andy Berenzweig · cross checking2 min - 9:54 into the first periodJere Karalahti · high sticking2 min
- 16:35 into the first periodVladimir Orszagh · roughing2 min
- 4:11 into the second periodGreg Johnson · roughing2 min
- 5:54 into the second period
Bobby Holik · interference goalkeeper2 min - 7:08 into the second periodVladimir Orszagh · hooking2 min
- 7:12 into the second periodAndreas Salomonsson · tripping2 min
- 7:35 into the second periodGreg Johnson · hooking2 min
- 11:43 into the second periodJoe Nieuwendyk · tripping2 min
- 14:32 into the second periodScott Gomez · hooking2 min
- 5:57 into the third periodBobby Holik · interference2 min
- 8:07 into the third periodCale Hulse · holding2 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 15Jamie LangenbrunnerR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 13:48 |
| 18Sergei BrylinL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 5 | 19:39 |
| 23Scott GomezC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 19:44 |
| 25Joe NieuwendykC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 6 | 15:29 |
| 27Scott NiedermayerD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 0 | 24:43 |
| 16Bobby HolikC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 18:52 |
| 28Brian RafalskiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 19:35 |
| 11John MaddenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:05 |
| 12Sergei NemchinovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:47 |
| 14Brian GiontaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 15:59 |
| 20Jay PandolfoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 13:49 |
| 21Andreas SalomonssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:45 |
| 22Valeri KamenskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 09:30 |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:43 |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:16 |
| 4Scott StevensD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 24:14 |
| 5Colin WhiteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:49 |
| 7Andrei ZyuzinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 15:12 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Martin BrodeurG | W | 27 | 3 | .889 |
| 34John VanbiesbrouckG | 0 | 0 | – |
Nashville Predators
| 22Greg JohnsonC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 20:42 |
| 44Kimmo TimonenD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 22:20 |
| 19Martin EratR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14:15 |
| 25Denis ArkhipovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 18:58 |
| 26Andy BerenzweigD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 09:12 |
| 11David LegwandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 16:49 |
| 12Reid SimpsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:54 |
| 14Steve DubinskyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:05 |
| 15Petr TenkratR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | 16:39 |
| 17Scott HartnellL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 20:15 |
| 20Nathan PerrottR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 03:28 |
| 33Vladimir OrszaghL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20:36 |
| 48Jonas AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:44 |
| 3Karlis SkrastinsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:52 |
| 5Andy DelmoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:59 |
| 13Jere KaralahtiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:19 |
| 23Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 19:47 |
| 32Cale HulseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 18:22 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike DunhamG | L | 36 | 4 | .889 |
| 29Tomas VokounG | 0 | 0 | – |