Buffalo Sabres vs Atlanta Thrashers
Regular season · Monday, February 17, 2003 · Philips Arena
Game summary
The Atlanta Thrashers beat the Buffalo Sabres 4–3 in overtime on Monday, February 17, 2003 at Philips Arena. The Thrashers outshot the Sabres 30–27.
Goals came from J-P Dumont, Dan Snyder, Tim Connolly, Vyacheslav Kozlov, Dany Heatley, Curtis Brown and Patrik Stefan.
Frederic Cassivi made 24 saves on 27 shots for the win; Martin Biron stopped 26 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
J-P Dumont (12)Curtis Brown (10)1–009:23 BUF
2nd period
Dan Snyder (4)Benjamin Simon (1), Chris Tamer (5)1–102:30 ATL
Tim Connolly (9)Stu Barnes (19), Miroslav Satan (29)2–105:14 BUF ·
3rd period
Vyacheslav Kozlov (16)Tony Hrkac (14), Dany Heatley (29)2–212:03 ATL · 
Dany Heatley (25)Ilya Kovalchuk (20)2–314:11 ATL · 
Curtis Brown (11)Jochen Hecht (12), Dmitri Kalinin (7)3–315:41 BUF ·
Overtime
Patrik Stefan (12)Marc Savard (20), Kirill Safronov (1)3–403:54 ATL ·
Team stats
BUFATL
2730
57%43%
1/33/8
3415
1313
1216
511
66
Penalties
- 3:04 into the first period
Jeff Odgers · holding2 min - 14:51 into the first period
Miroslav Satan · hooking2 min - 18:42 into the first periodJeff Odgers · fighting5 min
- 18:42 into the first periodChris Gratton · fighting5 min
- 19:20 into the first periodChris Tamer · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 19:20 into the first periodEric Boulton · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 4:41 into the second periodYannick Tremblay · hooking2 min
- 8:30 into the second periodBrad Tapper · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 8:30 into the second periodCurtis Brown · hooking obstruction2 min
- 8:30 into the second periodEric Boulton · roughing2 min
- 19:48 into the second periodChris Gratton · slashing2 min
- 5:33 into the third periodAdam Mair · interference2 min
- 8:02 into the third periodDaniel Tjarnqvist · holding2 min
- 11:22 into the third periodAdam Mair · elbowing5 min
- 11:22 into the third periodAdam Mair · game misconduct10 min
- 1:56 into overtimeAlexei Zhitnik · interference2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 37Curtis BrownC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 16:18 |
| 17J-P DumontR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 12:43 |
| 18Tim ConnollyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:38 |
| 41Stu BarnesC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:50 |
| 71Jochen HechtC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:58 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 20:42 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 29:53 |
| 12Ales KotalikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13:46 |
| 22Adam MairC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:45 |
| 24Taylor PyattL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:20 |
| 26Eric BoultonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 07:37 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12:39 |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:53 |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 22:47 |
| 8Rory FitzpatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:28 |
| 21Radoslav HeclD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 09:16 |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 31:22 |
| 51Brian CampbellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:23 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Ryan MillerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 43Martin BironG | L | 30 | 4 | .867 |
Atlanta Thrashers
| 15Dany HeatleyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 5 | 26:27 |
| 9Marc SavardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 20:03 |
| 12Tony HrkacC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | 17:59 |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 23:45 |
| 17Ilya KovalchukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 6 | 23:13 |
| 27Patrik StefanC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:58 |
| 37Dan SnyderC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 10:14 |
| 45Benjamin SimonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 07:13 |
| 4Chris TamerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20:49 |
| 29Kirill SafronovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 21:34 |
| 18Brad TapperR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:19 |
| 20Jeff OdgersR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:37 |
| 26Pascal RheaumeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 09:19 |
| 39Per SvartvadetC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:32 |
| 8Frantisek KaberleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 24:54 |
| 36Daniel TjarnqvistD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:55 |
| 38Yannick TremblayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 31:25 |
| 42Richard SmehlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:02 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Byron DafoeG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Frederic CassiviG | W | 27 | 3 | .889 |