Chicago Blackhawks vs St. Louis Blues
Regular season · Thursday, January 2, 2003 · Savvis Center
Game summary
The Chicago Blackhawks beat the St. Louis Blues 4–1 on Thursday, January 2, 2003 at Savvis Center. The Blues outshot the Blackhawks 29–25.
Goals came from Alexander Karpovtsev, Theo Fleury, Kyle Calder, Steve Sullivan and Cory Stillman.
Jocelyn Thibault made 28 saves on 29 shots for the win; Brent Johnson stopped 2 of 4.
Scoring
1st period
Alexander Karpovtsev (1)Phil Housley (16), Alexei Zhamnov (24)1–008:31 CHI · 
Theo Fleury (5)Kyle Calder (6), Nathan Dempsey (11)2–011:26 CHI
2nd period
Kyle Calder (8)Nathan Dempsey (12), Alexei Zhamnov (25)3–008:45 CHI · 
Steve Sullivan (13)Nathan Dempsey (13)4–019:46 CHI
3rd period
Cory Stillman (15)Petr Cajanek (23), Eric Boguniecki (16)4–106:35 STL
Team stats
CHISTL
2529
58%42%
2/30/4
108
23
00
00
00
Penalties
- 8:06 into the first period
Jeff Finley · slashing2 min - 14:35 into the first periodAlexander Khavanov · tripping2 min
- 19:35 into the first period
Alexei Zhamnov · hooking obstruction2 min - 4:23 into the second periodKyle Calder · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 8:28 into the second periodJeff Finley · charging2 min
- 17:37 into the second periodIgor Korolev · holding2 min
- 20:00 into the second periodAlexander Karpovtsev · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the second periodTyson Nash · cross checking2 min
- 2:49 into the third periodEric Daze · high sticking2 min
Season series
Chicago Blackhawks
| 43Nathan DempseyD | 0 | 3 | 3 | −1 | 1 | 22:40 |
| 13Alexei ZhamnovC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 14:39 |
| 19Kyle CalderL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 5 | 14:54 |
| 14Theo FleuryR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:10 |
| 26Steve SullivanL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 13:31 |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 15:40 |
| 25Alexander KarpovtsevD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 21:46 |
| 11Andrei NikolishinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:32 |
| 20Mike EastwoodC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:33 |
| 22Igor KorolevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:57 |
| 28Mark BellC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15:39 |
| 32Steve ThomasR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11:37 |
| 39Tyler ArnasonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:09 |
| 55Eric DazeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 12:42 |
| 94Sergei BerezinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:13 |
| 5Steve McCarthyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:04 |
| 7Lyle OdeleinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 23:19 |
| 8Steve PoapstD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 22:49 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Michael LeightonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Jocelyn ThibaultG | W | 29 | 1 | .966 |
St. Louis Blues
| 26Petr CajanekC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:17 |
| 33Eric BogunieckiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 14:51 |
| 61Cory StillmanL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 15:04 |
| 7Keith TkachukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:40 |
| 9Tyson NashL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 09:21 |
| 10Dallas DrakeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:13 |
| 18Steve DubinskyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:40 |
| 19Scott MellanbyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:07 |
| 22Martin RucinskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:27 |
| 25Shjon PodeinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 07:10 |
| 38Pavol DemitraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:24 |
| 39Doug WeightC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 21:50 |
| 2Al MacInnisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 8 | 24:06 |
| 5Barret JackmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:54 |
| 6Tom KoivistoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 19:10 |
| 29Alexander KhavanovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 22:00 |
| 37Jeff FinleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:09 |
| 46Christian LaflammeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:02 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Brent JohnsonG | L | 4 | 2 | .500 |
| 40Fred BrathwaiteG | 21 | 2 | .905 |