Carolina Hurricanes vs Nashville Predators
Regular season · Tuesday, December 3, 2002 · Gaylord Entertainment Center
Game summary
The Carolina Hurricanes beat the Nashville Predators 2–1 on Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at Gaylord Entertainment Center. The Hurricanes outshot the Predators 35–25.
Goals came from Rod Brind'Amour, Vernon Fiddler and Erik Cole.
Arturs Irbe made 24 saves on 25 shots for the win; Mike Dunham stopped 33 of 35.
Scoring
1st period
Rod Brind'Amour (11)Ron Francis (9), Sami Kapanen (6)1–019:06 CAR ·
3rd period
Vernon Fiddler (3)Andy Delmore (6)1–102:03 NSH
Erik Cole (9)David Tanabe (8)2–111:27 CAR
Team stats
CARNSH
3525
58%42%
1/30/6
126
30
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:43 into the first period
Sean Hill · hooking2 min - 8:07 into the first periodJaroslav Svoboda · hooking2 min
- 17:52 into the first period
Vernon Fiddler · tripping2 min - 18:44 into the first periodCale Hulse · high sticking2 min
- 13:58 into the second periodCraig Adams · tripping2 min
- 14:21 into the second periodErik Cole · holding the stick2 min
- 13:41 into the third periodVernon Fiddler · high sticking2 min
- 18:37 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 19:50 into the third periodGlen Wesley · boarding2 min
Carolina Hurricanes
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 18:21 |
| 17Rod Brind'AmourC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 25:32 |
| 24Sami KapanenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 04:42 |
| 26Erik ColeL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 19:21 |
| 21David TanabeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 18:53 |
| 12Craig MacDonaldC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 02:51 |
| 13Bates BattagliaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:25 |
| 14Kevyn AdamsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 16:11 |
| 20Jan HlavacL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:43 |
| 27Craig AdamsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:43 |
| 36Jesse BoulericeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:48 |
| 62Jaroslav SvobodaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:03 |
| 92Jeff O'NeillC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:04 |
| 2Glen WesleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 20:46 |
| 4Aaron WardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17:56 |
| 6Bret HedicanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 25:01 |
| 7Niclas WallinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14:30 |
| 22Sean HillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 22:20 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Arturs IrbeG | W | 25 | 1 | .960 |
| 30Jean-Marc PelletierG | 0 | 0 | – |
Nashville Predators
| 38Vernon FiddlerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 13:49 |
| 5Andy DelmoreD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 21:59 |
| 10Clarke WilmC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:58 |
| 11David LegwandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22:03 |
| 12Reid SimpsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:18 |
| 17Scott HartnellL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 6 | 23:02 |
| 18Adam HallR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:10 |
| 19Martin EratR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11:07 |
| 24Scott WalkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 22:53 |
| 25Denis ArkhipovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:42 |
| 33Vladimir OrszaghL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:29 |
| 41Brent GilchristL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:15 |
| 3Karlis SkrastinsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:49 |
| 4Mark EatonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:53 |
| 23Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:41 |
| 27Jason YorkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:18 |
| 32Cale HulseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:00 |
| 44Kimmo TimonenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22:24 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike DunhamG | L | 35 | 2 | .943 |
| 29Tomas VokounG | 0 | 0 | – |