New York Rangers vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Monday, April 1, 2002 · Ice Palace
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 6–4 on Monday, April 1, 2002 at Ice Palace. The Lightning outshot the Rangers 30–21.
Pavel Bure scored twice and Petr Nedved scored twice. Pavel Kubina, Rem Murray, Vincent Lecavalier, Dave Andreychuk, Martin Rucinsky and Vinny Prospal also scored.
Dan Blackburn made 26 saves on 30 shots for the win; Nikolai Khabibulin stopped 15 of 20.
Scoring
1st period
Pavel Kubina (10)Vinny Prospal (33), Ben Clymer (19)0–101:44 TBL
Rem Murray (8)Dale Purinton (3), Andreas Johansson (9)1–117:02 NYR
Pavel Bure (28)Eric Lindros (33)2–118:24 NYR
2nd period
Vincent Lecavalier (15)Cory Sarich (7)2–202:43 TBL
Petr Nedved (17)Dave Karpa (9), Martin Rucinsky (21)3–208:17 NYR
Dave Andreychuk (18)Jimmie Olvestad (9), Cory Sarich (8)3–309:54 TBL ·
3rd period
Martin Rucinsky (10)Pavel Bure (32)4–300:25 NYR
Vinny Prospal (18)Jimmie Olvestad (10), Martin Cibak (5)4–413:49 TBL- Petr Nedved (18)Matthew Barnaby (11), Brian Leetch (42)5–414:41 NYR
- Pavel Bure (29)Unassisted6–419:32 NYR ·
Team stats
NYRTBL
2130
44%56%
0/20/3
3038
1417
716
88
77
Penalties
- 13:23 into the first period
Vladimir Malakhov · roughing2 min - 0:22 into the second periodVladimir Malakhov · cross checking2 min
- 5:16 into the second period
Vincent Lecavalier · tripping2 min - 9:36 into the second periodAndre Roy · charging2 min
- 6:05 into the third periodMikael Samuelsson · roughing2 min
- 6:05 into the third periodMikael Samuelsson · fighting5 min
- 6:05 into the third periodVincent Lecavalier · fighting5 min
- 7:12 into the third periodDave Karpa · roughing2 min
- 7:12 into the third periodDan Boyle · roughing2 min
- 10:09 into the third periodVladimir Malakhov · roughing2 min
- 10:09 into the third periodSandy McCarthy · fighting5 min
- 10:09 into the third periodSandy McCarthy · misconduct10 min
- 10:09 into the third periodAndre Roy · roughing2 min
- 10:09 into the third periodAndre Roy · fighting5 min
- 10:09 into the third periodAndre Roy · game misconduct10 min
- 10:09 into the third periodAndre Roy · game misconduct10 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 9Pavel BureR | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 20:02 |
| 19Martin RucinskyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 16:52 |
| 93Petr NedvedC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 16:54 |
| 17Rem MurrayL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 19:00 |
| 26Andreas JohanssonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 21:50 |
| 36Matthew BarnabyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 12:58 |
| 88Eric LindrosC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 19:45 |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 25:22 |
| 5Dale PurintonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11:36 |
| 33Dave KarpaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 23:10 |
| 10Sandy McCarthyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:14 |
| 14Theo FleuryR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:30 |
| 21Steve McKennaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:58 |
| 29Roman LyashenkoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:18 |
| 37Mikael SamuelssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 07:06 |
| 3Tom PotiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 22:47 |
| 23Vladimir MalakhovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 1 | 19:29 |
| 34Bryan BerardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 15:36 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Dan BlackburnG | W | 30 | 4 | .867 |
| 40Johan HolmqvistG | 0 | 0 | – |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 20:17 |
| 41Jimmie OlvestadL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15:56 |
| 21Cory SarichD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 18:18 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 2 | 16:56 |
| 7Ben ClymerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 15:33 |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 24:46 |
| 46Martin CibakC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 13:10 |
| 13Pavel KubinaD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 6 | 25:55 |
| 15Nikita AlexeevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:42 |
| 19Brad RichardsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | 19:43 |
| 24Shane WillisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:17 |
| 28Sheldon KeefeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 16:43 |
| 36Andre RoyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:07 |
| 54Gaetan RoyerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:39 |
| 3Grant LedyardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:10 |
| 5Jassen CullimoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 19:55 |
| 22Dan BoyleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | 21:57 |
| 44Nolan PrattD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:16 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Dieter KochanG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | L | 20 | 5 | .750 |