St. Louis Blues vs Los Angeles Kings
Regular season · Tuesday, December 17, 2002 · STAPLES Center
Game summary
The Los Angeles Kings beat the St. Louis Blues 6-2 on Tuesday, December 17, 2002 at STAPLES Center. The Blues outshot the Kings 36-29.
Eric Belanger scored a hat trick. Jaroslav Modry, Keith Tkachuk, Bryan Smolinski, Scott Mellanby and Ziggy Palffy also scored.
Felix Potvin made 34 saves on 36 shots for the win; Brent Johnson stopped 23 of 28.
Scoring
1st period
Jaroslav Modry (9)Jason Allison (15), Mathieu Schneider (17)0–115:17 LAK · PPG
Keith Tkachuk (7)Al MacInnis (16), Doug Weight (19)1–117:32 STL · PPG
2nd period
Eric Belanger (7)Ian Laperriere (6)1–200:32 LAK
Bryan Smolinski (5)Mathieu Schneider (18), Jaroslav Modry (11)1–306:11 LAK · PPG- Eric Belanger (8)Jason Allison (16), Erik Rasmussen (7)1–417:58 LAK
3rd period
Scott Mellanby (11)Doug Weight (20), Al MacInnis (17)2–404:42 STL · PPG
Ziggy Palffy (11)Jason Allison (17), Jaroslav Modry (12)2–513:53 LAK · PPG- Eric Belanger (9)Ian Laperriere (7), Dmitry Yushkevich (7)2–617:30 LAK · SHG · EN
Team stats
STLLAK
36Shots on goal29
56%Faceoff %44%
2/6Power play3/7
38Penalty minutes26
6Hits5
0Blocked shots0
0Giveaways0
0Takeaways0
Penalties
- 1st 06:24
Eric Boguniecki · cross checking2 min - 1st 13:15Barret Jackman · hooking2 min
- 1st 14:13Christian Laflamme · cross checking2 min
- 1st 17:03
Brad Chartrand · holding2 min - 2nd 03:55Ian Laperriere · fighting5 min
- 2nd 03:55Barret Jackman · fighting5 min
- 2nd 05:18Petr Cajanek · elbowing2 min
- 2nd 07:41Dmitry Yushkevich · interference2 min
- 2nd 12:07Jaroslav Modry · boarding2 min
- 3rd 00:04Brad Norton · fighting5 min
- 3rd 00:04Reed Low · fighting5 min
- 3rd 03:34Eric Belanger · high sticking2 min
- 3rd 09:38Al MacInnis · hooking2 min
- 3rd 09:44Jaroslav Modry · tripping2 min
- 3rd 11:23Keith Tkachuk · high sticking2 min
- 3rd 11:23Keith Tkachuk · high sticking2 min
- 3rd 16:21Jaroslav Modry · holding2 min
- 3rd 16:21Jaroslav Modry · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 3rd 17:30Dmitry Yushkevich · roughing2 min
- 3rd 17:30Keith Tkachuk · roughing2 min
- 3rd 17:30Keith Tkachuk · misconduct10 min
- 3rd 17:30Doug Weight · roughing2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 39Doug WeightC | 0 | 2 | 2 | -2 | 5 | 23:52 |
| 2Al MacInnisD | 0 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 4 | 24:11 |
| 7Keith TkachukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | -3 | 7 | 17:51 |
| 19Scott MellanbyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | -2 | 3 | 16:04 |
| 9Tyson NashL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:55 |
| 10Dallas DrakeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:42 |
| 22Martin RucinskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16:12 |
| 25Shjon PodeinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:27 |
| 26Petr CajanekC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 16:05 |
| 33Eric BogunieckiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 14:37 |
| 34Reed LowR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:00 |
| 38Pavol DemitraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 14:21 |
| 63Justin PapineauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | 12:35 |
| 5Barret JackmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:31 |
| 6Tom KoivistoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 13:34 |
| 27Bryce SalvadorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | 20:31 |
| 29Alexander KhavanovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | 20:15 |
| 46Christian LaflammeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | 18:26 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Brent JohnsonG | L | 28 | 23 | 5 | .821 | 58:57 |
| 40Fred BrathwaiteG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 |
Los Angeles Kings
| 25Eric BelangerC | 3 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 3 | 18:43 |
| 41Jason AllisonC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 5 | 19:50 |
| 44Jaroslav ModryD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 19:45 |
| 22Ian LaperriereR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 18:59 |
| 10Mathieu SchneiderD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 21:35 |
| 9Erik RasmussenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 19:23 |
| 21Bryan SmolinskiC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 13:15 |
| 33Ziggy PalffyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20:46 |
| 36Dmitry YushkevichD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | 20:36 |
| 13Michael CammalleriL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:08 |
| 23Craig JohnsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:10 |
| 24Alex FrolovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 14:52 |
| 29Brad ChartrandR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:26 |
| 31Jared AulinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:55 |
| 14Mattias NorstromD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 0 | 23:21 |
| 17Lubomir VisnovskyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:29 |
| 26Joe CorvoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:14 |
| 63Brad NortonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 04:41 |
| Goalie | DEC | SA | SV | GA | SV% | TOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jamie StorrG | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 00:00 | |
| 39Felix PotvinG | W | 36 | 34 | 2 | .944 | 60:00 |