Philadelphia Flyers vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Tuesday, March 18, 2003 · HSBC Arena
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5–2 on Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at HSBC Arena. The Flyers outshot the Sabres 32–23.
Goals came from Daniel Brière, J-P Dumont, John LeClair, Tony Amonte, Maxim Afinogenov, Jochen Hecht and James Patrick.
Martin Biron made 30 saves on 32 shots for the win; Robert Esche stopped 18 of 23.
Scoring
1st period
Daniel Brière (19)Rhett Warrener (7), J-P Dumont (16)0–103:30 BUF · 
J-P Dumont (13)Jochen Hecht (13), Rhett Warrener (8)0–206:14 BUF
John LeClair (14)Eric Desjardins (22), Mark Recchi (28)1–210:16 PHI
2nd period
Tony Amonte (16)Eric Weinrich (15), Jeremy Roenick (26)2–206:00 PHI · 
Maxim Afinogenov (3)Taylor Pyatt (13)2–307:02 BUF
Jochen Hecht (7)Adam Mair (9), Curtis Brown (15)2–418:09 BUF
3rd period
James Patrick (3)Jason Botterill (3), Eric Boulton (3)2–500:39 BUF
Team stats
PHIBUF
3223
63%37%
1/21/4
2420
1423
86
167
49
Penalties
- 0:11 into the first period
Eric Boulton · fighting5 min - 0:11 into the first period
Donald Brashear · fighting5 min - 2:00 into the first periodJoe Sacco · holding the stick2 min
- 8:16 into the first periodTim Connolly · slashing2 min
- 8:16 into the first periodMarcus Ragnarsson · slashing2 min
- 4:12 into the second periodAdam Mair · interference2 min
- 8:12 into the second periodMarcus Ragnarsson · tripping2 min
- 12:44 into the second periodAdam Mair · interference2 min
- 13:35 into the second periodCurtis Brown · roughing2 min
- 13:35 into the second periodKim Johnsson · roughing2 min
- 15:22 into the second periodJohn LeClair · hooking2 min
- 6:47 into the third periodCurtis Brown · roughing2 min
- 6:47 into the third periodMaxim Afinogenov · fighting5 min
- 6:47 into the third periodJoe Sacco · roughing2 min
- 6:47 into the third periodMarty Murray · fighting5 min
- 19:08 into the third periodDonald Brashear · elbowing2 min
Season series
Philadelphia Flyers
| 8Mark RecchiR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | 14:13 |
| 10John LeClairL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 4 | 17:44 |
| 11Tony AmonteR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 17:54 |
| 97Jeremy RoenickC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18:43 |
| 2Eric WeinrichD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 20:27 |
| 37Eric DesjardinsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 24:31 |
| 13Claude LapointeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:18 |
| 15Joe SaccoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 08:49 |
| 19Eric ChouinardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 08:21 |
| 24Sami KapanenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:30 |
| 25Keith PrimeauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 19:32 |
| 26Michal HandzusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 11:13 |
| 39Marty MurrayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:06 |
| 87Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:34 |
| 5Kim JohnssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:17 |
| 6Chris TherienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:04 |
| 22Dmitry YushkevichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 19:00 |
| 28Marcus RagnarssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:55 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Roman CechmanekG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 42Robert EscheG | L | 23 | 5 | .783 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 17J-P DumontR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 5 | 16:24 |
| 71Jochen HechtC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 15:21 |
| 4Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 09:05 |
| 22Adam MairC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 10:48 |
| 24Taylor PyattL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 06:48 |
| 26Eric BoultonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 08:53 |
| 28Jason BotterillL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 11:03 |
| 37Curtis BrownC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 15:08 |
| 48Daniel BrièreC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 17:42 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:03 |
| 3James PatrickD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 21:32 |
| 12Ales KotalikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 18:22 |
| 18Tim ConnollyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:23 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 22:10 |
| 8Rory FitzpatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 22:32 |
| 33Doug JanikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 11:25 |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 31:07 |
| 51Brian CampbellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23:27 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Mika NoronenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 43Martin BironG | W | 32 | 2 | .938 |