Tampa Bay Lightning vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, March 14, 2003 · HSBC Arena
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Buffalo Sabres 4–2 on Friday, March 14, 2003 at HSBC Arena. The Lightning outshot the Sabres 33–28.
Vinny Prospal scored twice. Dave Andreychuk, Daniel Brière, Brad Richards and Taylor Pyatt also scored.
John Grahame made 26 saves on 28 shots for the win; Mika Noronen stopped 29 of 32.
Scoring
1st period
Vinny Prospal (19)Vincent Lecavalier (39)1–006:23 TBL
Dave Andreychuk (18)Vinny Prospal (51), Brad Richards (49)2–010:25 TBL ·
Daniel Brière (18)Unassisted2–113:37 BUF
2nd period
Brad Richards (16)Martin St. Louis (32), Cory Sarich (9)3–112:26 TBL
Taylor Pyatt (9)Brian Campbell (15), Rhett Warrener (6)3–216:49 BUF
3rd period
Vinny Prospal (20)Unassisted4–219:45 TBL ·
Team stats
TBLBUF
3328
54%46%
1/40/3
1212
1318
1410
911
54
Penalties
- 0:37 into the first period
Tim Taylor · cross checking2 min
- 2:38 into the first period
Jochen Hecht · holding2 min
- 9:45 into the first period
Alexei Zhitnik · tripping2 min
- 19:10 into the first period
Martin St. Louis · hooking obstruction2 min
- 11:12 into the second period
Jochen Hecht · roughing2 min
- 11:12 into the second period
Stan Neckar · holding the stick2 min
- 9:53 into the third period
Jochen Hecht · roughing2 min
- 9:53 into the third period
Jochen Hecht · roughing2 min
- 9:53 into the third period
Brad Lukowich · roughing2 min
- 13:08 into the third period
Maxim Afinogenov · slashing2 min
- 17:11 into the third period
Freddy Modin · high sticking2 min
- 20:00 into the third period
Ruslan Fedotenko · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 2 | 18:23 |
| 19Brad RichardsC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 17:06 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 18:23 |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 6 | 17:08 |
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 6 | 17:56 |
| 21Cory SarichD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19:32 |
| 7Ben ClymerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:13 |
| 15Nikita AlexeevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 12:55 |
| 16Alexander SvitovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 11:40 |
| 17Ruslan FedotenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 14:07 |
| 27Tim TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:14 |
| 33Freddy ModinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:23 |
| 36Andre RoyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 08:42 |
| 2Stan NeckarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 16:45 |
| 13Pavel KubinaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | 19:30 |
| 22Dan BoyleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:14 |
| 37Brad LukowichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:54 |
| 44Nolan PrattD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:33 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 47John GrahameG | W | 28 | 2 | .929 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 24Taylor PyattL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12:40 |
| 48Daniel BrièreC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:43 |
| 4Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 22:55 |
| 51Brian CampbellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 22:57 |
| 12Ales KotalikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 19:19 |
| 16Chris TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 15:26 |
| 17J-P DumontR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:22 |
| 18Tim ConnollyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 19:48 |
| 22Adam MairC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:57 |
| 26Eric BoultonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:06 |
| 28Jason BotterillL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:31 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:43 |
| 71Jochen HechtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15:56 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 22:34 |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:48 |
| 8Rory FitzpatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:03 |
| 33Doug JanikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 08:06 |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 26:17 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Mika NoronenG | L | 32 | 3 | .906 |
| 43Martin BironG | 0 | 0 | – |