Tampa Bay Lightning vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Tuesday, March 4, 2003 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the New York Islanders 3–1 on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Lightning outshot the Islanders 27–26.
Goals came from Brad Richards, Jason Blake, Martin St. Louis and Vincent Lecavalier.
Nikolai Khabibulin made 25 saves on 26 shots for the win; Garth Snow stopped 4 of 7.
Scoring
1st period
Brad Richards (15)Freddy Modin (21), Martin St. Louis (29)1–003:42 TBL
Jason Blake (21)Jason Wiemer (15), Dave Scatchard (16)1–108:49 NYI
Martin St. Louis (30)Cory Sarich (8)2–115:06 TBL · 
Vincent Lecavalier (25)Ben Clymer (9), Vinny Prospal (47)3–117:59 TBL
Team stats
TBLNYI
2726
45%55%
0/20/4
106
1023
2313
816
55
Penalties
- 12:30 into the first period
Dave Andreychuk · clipping2 min - 13:28 into the first periodStan Neckar · high sticking2 min
- 1:36 into the second period
Dave Scatchard · roughing2 min - 5:38 into the third periodNolan Pratt · tripping2 min
- 10:05 into the third periodAdrian Aucoin · holding2 min
- 13:33 into the third periodAlexander Svitov · tripping2 min
- 18:31 into the third periodShawn Bates · slashing2 min
- 18:31 into the third periodBrad Lukowich · slashing2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 6 | 16:35 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:46 |
| 7Ben ClymerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 16:52 |
| 19Brad RichardsC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:16 |
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:53 |
| 33Freddy ModinL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:51 |
| 21Cory SarichD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 18:19 |
| 11Chris DingmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:34 |
| 15Nikita AlexeevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 09:26 |
| 16Alexander SvitovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:06 |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:05 |
| 27Tim TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:19 |
| 36Andre RoyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 08:46 |
| 2Stan NeckarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:14 |
| 13Pavel KubinaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 21:16 |
| 22Dan BoyleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 21:41 |
| 37Brad LukowichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:57 |
| 44Nolan PrattD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 18:06 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | W | 26 | 1 | .962 |
| 47John GrahameG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Islanders
| 28Jason WiemerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 12:18 |
| 38Dave ScatchardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 14:57 |
| 55Jason BlakeL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 17:50 |
| 11Mattias WeinhandlR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:52 |
| 12Oleg KvashaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:19 |
| 13Claude LapointeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:47 |
| 17Shawn BatesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:00 |
| 20Steve WebbR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 05:55 |
| 27Michael PecaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 21:06 |
| 37Mark ParrishR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 20:26 |
| 45Arron AshamR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:15 |
| 79Alexei YashinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 19:25 |
| 2Mattias TimanderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 23:55 |
| 3Adrian AucoinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 29:00 |
| 6Brandon SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:16 |
| 24Radek MartinekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:43 |
| 32Alan LetangD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 21:07 |
| 44Sven ButenschonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:42 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Garth SnowG | L | 7 | 3 | .571 |
| 39Rick DiPietroG | 20 | 0 | 1.000 |