Atlanta Thrashers vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Monday, December 30, 2002 · Mellon Arena
Game summary
The Atlanta Thrashers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3–2 in overtime on Monday, December 30, 2002 at Mellon Arena. The Penguins outshot the Thrashers 37–26.
Milan Kraft scored twice. Andy Sutton, Dany Heatley and Ilya Kovalchuk also scored.
Pasi Nurminen made 35 saves on 37 shots for the win; Jean-Sebastien Aubin stopped 23 of 26.
Scoring
1st period
Andy Sutton (3)Per Svartvadet (4)1–004:46 ATL · 
Dany Heatley (10)Ilya Kovalchuk (11), Patrik Stefan (12)2–017:39 ATL ·
2nd period
Milan Kraft (4)Jan Hrdina (18), Andrew Ference (3)2–109:51 PIT
3rd period
- Milan Kraft (5)Martin Straka (11), Michal Sivek (3)2–214:07 PIT
Overtime
Ilya Kovalchuk (21)Daniel Tjarnqvist (8)3–204:40 ATL
Team stats
ATLPIT
2637
42%58%
1/30/7
146
12
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:26 into the first period
Shawn McEachern · hooking obstruction2 min - 5:31 into the first period
Steve McKenna · diving2 min - 8:24 into the first periodJan Hrdina · hooking2 min
- 11:28 into the first periodPer Svartvadet · holding2 min
- 16:36 into the first periodMichal Sivek · cross checking2 min
- 19:25 into the first periodJean-Pierre Vigier · tripping2 min
- 1:58 into the second periodChris Tamer · holding the stick2 min
- 18:44 into the second periodAndy Sutton · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 11:51 into the third periodJean-Pierre Vigier · interference2 min
- 1:09 into overtimeAndy Sutton · holding2 min
Season series
Atlanta Thrashers
| 17Ilya KovalchukL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 17:24 |
| 15Dany HeatleyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 20:05 |
| 27Patrik StefanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15:54 |
| 39Per SvartvadetC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 08:14 |
| 25Andy SuttonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 23:57 |
| 36Daniel TjarnqvistD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24:40 |
| 9Marc SavardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 19:48 |
| 11Jean-Pierre VigierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 15:34 |
| 12Tony HrkacC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:16 |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 19:41 |
| 18Brad TapperR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:43 |
| 19Shawn McEachernL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 19:41 |
| 20Jeff OdgersR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 05:05 |
| 26Pascal RheaumeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 09:35 |
| 4Chris TamerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:30 |
| 8Frantisek KaberleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24:22 |
| 38Yannick TremblayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:16 |
| 43Mike WeaverD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24:09 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Pasi NurminenG | W | 37 | 2 | .946 |
| 33Milan HnilickaG | 0 | 0 | – |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 14Milan KraftC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 17:49 |
| 38Jan HrdinaC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20:31 |
| 47Michal SivekC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 15:23 |
| 82Martin StrakaC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 26:20 |
| 7Andrew FerenceD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:27 |
| 10Ville NieminenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:19 |
| 15Wayne PrimeauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:25 |
| 18Shean DonovanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:47 |
| 23Steve McKennaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:13 |
| 26Kent MandervilleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:22 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | 15:40 |
| 33Dan LacoutureL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:26 |
| 66Mario LemieuxC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 6 | 29:32 |
| 3Jamie PushorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:06 |
| 8Hans JonssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 20:02 |
| 24Ian MoranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 18:24 |
| 25Marc BergevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:38 |
| 28Michal RozsivalD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 22:29 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Johan HedbergG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Jean-Sebastien AubinG | L | 26 | 3 | .885 |