Washington Capitals vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Monday, October 28, 2002 · Mellon Arena
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Washington Capitals 3–2 on Monday, October 28, 2002 at Mellon Arena. The Capitals outshot the Penguins 42–24.
Goals came from Shean Donovan, Jan Hrdina, Peter Bondra, Mario Lemieux and Jeff Halpern.
Johan Hedberg made 40 saves on 42 shots for the win; Craig Billington stopped 21 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Shean Donovan (1)Wayne Primeau (4)0–105:56 PIT · 
Jan Hrdina (2)Aleksey Morozov (6), Mario Lemieux (15)0–213:13 PIT ·
2nd period
Peter Bondra (4)Kip Miller (6), Ken Klee (2)1–202:54 WSH
Mario Lemieux (5)Dick Tarnstrom (7), Alex Kovalev (7)1–312:49 PIT · 
Jeff Halpern (2)Sergei Gonchar (3), Kip Miller (7)2–319:53 WSH
Team stats
WSHPIT
4224
55%45%
0/72/5
1014
21
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:21 into the first period
Alexandre Daigle · holding2 min - 12:22 into the first period
Ken Klee · tripping2 min - 13:55 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 14:49 into the first periodAlex Kovalev · tripping obstruction2 min
- 14:49 into the first periodDick Tarnstrom · hooking2 min
- 19:10 into the first periodJeff Halpern · cross checking2 min
- 11:38 into the second periodKen Klee · hooking2 min
- 13:59 into the second periodVille Nieminen · roughing2 min
- 17:28 into the second periodWayne Primeau · hooking2 min
- 1:21 into the third periodJeff Halpern · tripping2 min
- 5:45 into the third periodJan Hrdina · tripping2 min
- 18:00 into the third periodAlex Kovalev · hooking2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 14Kip MillerC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 13:56 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 13:21 |
| 12Peter BondraR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 23:26 |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 10:04 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 16:06 |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:05 |
| 16Andreas SalomonssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:09 |
| 17Chris SimonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:57 |
| 20Robert LangC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 25:10 |
| 21Glen MetropolitC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:06 |
| 22Steve KonowalchukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 22:36 |
| 25Mike GrierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:10 |
| 41Michael FarrellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 02:16 |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 8 | 29:20 |
| 4Rick BerryD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:50 |
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:53 |
| 44Steve EmingerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:04 |
| 58Jean-Francois FortinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 22:15 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | L | 24 | 3 | .875 |
| 37Olie KolzigG | 0 | 0 | – |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 66Mario LemieuxC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 5 | 20:05 |
| 15Wayne PrimeauC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 20:59 |
| 18Shean DonovanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 09:41 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 24:54 |
| 38Jan HrdinaC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 15:56 |
| 95Aleksey MorozovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 6 | 19:28 |
| 32Dick TarnstromD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 25:31 |
| 10Ville NieminenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:21 |
| 11Alexandre DaigleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:49 |
| 19Vladimir VujtekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 04:24 |
| 23Steve McKennaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:01 |
| 26Kent MandervilleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:53 |
| 33Dan LacoutureL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:15 |
| 3Jamie PushorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:51 |
| 5Janne LaukkanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:12 |
| 24Ian MoranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:22 |
| 25Marc BergevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:33 |
| 28Michal RozsivalD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:45 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Johan HedbergG | W | 42 | 2 | .952 |
| 30Jean-Sebastien AubinG | 0 | 0 | – |