Vancouver Canucks vs Nashville Predators
Regular season · Thursday, December 19, 2002 · Gaylord Entertainment Center
Game summary
The Vancouver Canucks beat the Nashville Predators 3–1 on Thursday, December 19, 2002 at Gaylord Entertainment Center. The Predators outshot the Canucks 31–29.
Goals came from Denis Pederson, Ed Jovanovski, Trevor Letowski and Sami Salo.
Peter Skudra made 30 saves on 31 shots for the win; Tomas Vokoun stopped 26 of 28.
Scoring
1st period
Denis Pederson (1)Kimmo Timonen (14)0–102:46 NSH
2nd period
Ed Jovanovski (4)Matt Cooke (7), Artem Chubarov (4)1–115:45 VAN
3rd period
Trevor Letowski (5)Mats Lindgren (4)2–113:57 VAN
Sami Salo (4)Matt Cooke (8)3–119:56 VAN ·
Team stats
VANNSH
2931
52%48%
0/40/5
1210
20
00
00
00
Penalties
- 10:22 into the first period
Mark Eaton · hooking2 min - 12:44 into the first period
Murray Baron · interference2 min - 5:49 into the second periodMarek Malik · interference2 min
- 10:55 into the second periodDavid Legwand · cross checking2 min
- 12:15 into the second periodMarkus Naslund · slashing2 min
- 15:34 into the second periodVernon Fiddler · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 15:34 into the second periodZenith Komarniski · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 19:36 into the second periodMatt Cooke · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 3:43 into the third periodMark Eaton · roughing2 min
- 11:10 into the third periodDavid Legwand · tripping2 min
- 15:26 into the third periodMurray Baron · high sticking2 min
Season series
Vancouver Canucks
| 24Matt CookeL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 12:39 |
| 10Trevor LetowskiR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 11:59 |
| 13Artem ChubarovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 14:34 |
| 25Mats LindgrenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 13:36 |
| 6Sami SaloD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 21:52 |
| 55Ed JovanovskiD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 24:23 |
| 7Brendan MorrisonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:46 |
| 15Todd WarrinerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:30 |
| 19Markus NaslundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19:44 |
| 22Daniel SedinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:43 |
| 26Trent KlattR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 13:32 |
| 37Jarkko RuutuL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:28 |
| 44Todd BertuzziR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:40 |
| 3Brent SopelD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:59 |
| 5Bryan AllenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:08 |
| 8Marek MalikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:44 |
| 21Zenith KomarniskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:25 |
| 23Murray BaronD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 17:18 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Peter SkudraG | W | 31 | 1 | .968 |
| 39Dan CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – |
Nashville Predators
| 16Denis PedersonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 15:32 |
| 44Kimmo TimonenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 21:46 |
| 10Clarke WilmC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 09:42 |
| 11David LegwandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:04 |
| 15Rem MurrayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:15 |
| 17Scott HartnellL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 15:00 |
| 18Adam HallR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:52 |
| 21Andreas JohanssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:59 |
| 24Scott WalkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 21:06 |
| 33Vladimir OrszaghL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | 17:42 |
| 38Vernon FiddlerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 06:53 |
| 41Brent GilchristL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 07:17 |
| 43Vitali YachmenevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:33 |
| 3Karlis SkrastinsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:38 |
| 4Mark EatonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:15 |
| 5Andy DelmoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | 21:43 |
| 23Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 19:09 |
| 27Jason YorkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 19:40 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Tomas VokounG | L | 28 | 2 | .929 |
| 35Jan LasakG | 0 | 0 | – |