Tampa Bay Lightning vs Minnesota Wild
Regular season · Tuesday, December 10, 2002 · Xcel Energy Center
Game summary
The Minnesota Wild beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5–3 on Tuesday, December 10, 2002 at Xcel Energy Center. The Lightning outshot the Wild 35–24.
Dan Boyle scored twice. Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Richard Park, Wes Walz, Marian Gaborik, Willie Mitchell and Alexander Svitov also scored.
Manny Fernandez made 32 saves on 35 shots for the win; Nikolai Khabibulin stopped 11 of 15.
Scoring
1st period
Pierre-Marc Bouchard (2)Sergei Zholtok (15), Filip Kuba (8)0–117:28 MIN ·
2nd period
Dan Boyle (4)Brad Lukowich (7), Freddy Modin (10)1–101:16 TBL
Richard Park (4)Willie Mitchell (7), Pascal Dupuis (12)1–203:32 MIN
Wes Walz (5)Antti Laaksonen (5), Pascal Dupuis (13)1–309:19 MIN
Marian Gaborik (19)Brad Bombardir (7)1–413:16 MIN- Dan Boyle (5)Brad Richards (22), Vinny Prospal (21)2–416:03 TBL ·
3rd period
Willie Mitchell (1)Wes Walz (9)2–517:09 MIN · · 
Alexander Svitov (2)Vinny Prospal (22), Sheldon Keefe (5)3–519:55 TBL ·
Team stats
TBLMIN
3524
47%53%
2/51/3
610
12
00
00
00
Penalties
- 13:27 into the first period
Willie Mitchell · high sticking2 min - 16:32 into the first period
Tim Taylor · cross checking2 min - 6:41 into the second periodRuslan Fedotenko · hooking2 min
- 9:48 into the second periodPavel Kubina · holding2 min
- 15:37 into the second periodMatt Johnson · tripping2 min
- 9:27 into the third periodBench · delaying game bench2 min
- 17:05 into the third periodManny Fernandez · high sticking2 min
- 17:05 into the third periodManny Fernandez · high sticking2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 0 | 2 | 2 | −3 | 2 | 19:20 |
| 22Dan BoyleD | 2 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 3 | 24:06 |
| 16Alexander SvitovC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 06:17 |
| 19Brad RichardsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20:41 |
| 28Sheldon KeefeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 09:24 |
| 33Freddy ModinL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 18:20 |
| 37Brad LukowichD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 16:52 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 20:20 |
| 7Ben ClymerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 14:55 |
| 11Chris DingmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 06:28 |
| 17Ruslan FedotenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:01 |
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 19:51 |
| 27Tim TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:43 |
| 36Andre RoyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:44 |
| 2Stan NeckarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:21 |
| 13Pavel KubinaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:36 |
| 21Cory SarichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:52 |
| 44Nolan PrattD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:10 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Kevin HodsonG | 8 | 0 | 1.000 | |
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | L | 15 | 4 | .733 |
Minnesota Wild
| 11Pascal DupuisR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 1 | 16:44 |
| 37Wes WalzC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 15:11 |
| 2Willie MitchellD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 20:11 |
| 10Marian GaborikR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:42 |
| 18Richard ParkR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 17:42 |
| 24Antti LaaksonenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 16:26 |
| 33Sergei ZholtokC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 17:23 |
| 96Pierre-Marc BouchardC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13:01 |
| 5Brad BombardirD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 17:13 |
| 17Filip KubaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23:18 |
| 7Cliff RonningC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:02 |
| 12Matt JohnsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:12 |
| 15Andrew BrunetteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:17 |
| 19Stephane VeilleuxL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:52 |
| 34Jim DowdC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:40 |
| 20Andrei ZyuzinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:20 |
| 55Nick SchultzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 13:43 |
| 77Lubomir SekerasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 24:27 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Dwayne RolosonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Manny FernandezG | W | 35 | 3 | .914 |