Atlanta Thrashers vs Philadelphia Flyers
Regular season · Monday, March 24, 2003 · First Union Center
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Atlanta Thrashers 6–2 on Monday, March 24, 2003 at First Union Center. The Flyers outshot the Thrashers 36–18.
Michal Handzus scored twice. Jeremy Roenick, Ilya Kovalchuk, Marc Savard, Marcus Ragnarsson, Tony Amonte and Kim Johnsson also scored.
Robert Esche made 16 saves on 18 shots for the win; Milan Hnilicka stopped 30 of 36.
Scoring
1st period
Jeremy Roenick (25)Keith Primeau (20), Tony Amonte (28)0–108:44 PHI ·
2nd period
Ilya Kovalchuk (35)Yannick Tremblay (18)1–109:38 ATL
Marc Savard (13)Ilya Kovalchuk (26), Yannick Tremblay (19)2–112:32 ATL · 
Marcus Ragnarsson (3)Keith Primeau (21), Sami Kapanen (20)2–216:26 PHI
Michal Handzus (19)Joe Sacco (4), Donald Brashear (15)2–319:36 PHI
3rd period
Tony Amonte (18)Unassisted2–405:21 PHI- Michal Handzus (20)Donald Brashear (16), John LeClair (8)2–505:50 PHI
Kim Johnsson (9)Unassisted2–606:57 PHI
Team stats
ATLPHI
1836
48%52%
1/31/3
1010
1014
163
1011
44
Penalties
- 7:07 into the first period
Ilya Kovalchuk · slashing2 min - 15:12 into the first period
Chris Therien · interference2 min - 3:08 into the second periodClaude Lapointe · high sticking2 min
- 5:50 into the second periodFrantisek Kaberle · high sticking2 min
- 11:19 into the second periodPatrick Sharp · holding2 min
- 2:44 into the third periodYannick Tremblay · interference2 min
- 5:50 into the third periodDan Snyder · roughing2 min
- 5:50 into the third periodMichal Handzus · roughing2 min
- 19:19 into the third periodGarnet Exelby · roughing2 min
- 19:19 into the third periodDonald Brashear · roughing2 min
Season series
Atlanta Thrashers
| 17Ilya KovalchukL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 4 | 17:47 |
| 38Yannick TremblayD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −2 | 1 | 24:07 |
| 9Marc SavardC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 4 | 17:33 |
| 3Mark HartiganC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 13:48 |
| 12Tony HrkacC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:30 |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:18 |
| 15Dany HeatleyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:16 |
| 16Jeff CowanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:30 |
| 20Jeff OdgersR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 11:37 |
| 23Lubos BarteckoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:47 |
| 37Dan SnyderC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:48 |
| 39Per SvartvadetC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:35 |
| 49Zdenek BlatnyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:17 |
| 2Garnet ExelbyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:21 |
| 4Chris TamerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 23:16 |
| 8Frantisek KaberleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:55 |
| 29Kirill SafronovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 13:27 |
| 36Daniel TjarnqvistD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 11:10 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Pasi NurminenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Milan HnilickaG | L | 36 | 6 | .833 |
Philadelphia Flyers
| 11Tony AmonteR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 16:59 |
| 25Keith PrimeauC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 18:35 |
| 26Michal HandzusC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 18:47 |
| 87Donald BrashearL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 1 | 15:20 |
| 10John LeClairL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 14:38 |
| 15Joe SaccoL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 15:26 |
| 24Sami KapanenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 19:26 |
| 97Jeremy RoenickC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 15:17 |
| 5Kim JohnssonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 22:00 |
| 28Marcus RagnarssonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 1 | 19:28 |
| 13Claude LapointeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | 12:35 |
| 18Patrick SharpL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 08:34 |
| 19Eric ChouinardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 07:36 |
| 39Marty MurrayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:47 |
| 2Eric WeinrichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 19:44 |
| 6Chris TherienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:39 |
| 22Dmitry YushkevichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 1 | 19:52 |
| 37Eric DesjardinsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:02 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Neil LittleG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 42Robert EscheG | W | 18 | 2 | .889 |