Montréal Canadiens vs Carolina Hurricanes
Regular season · Monday, March 31, 2003 · RBC Center
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4–0 on Monday, March 31, 2003 at RBC Center. The Hurricanes outshot the Canadiens 33–21.
Goals came from Saku Koivu, Francis Bouillon, Richard Zednik and Donald Audette.
Mathieu Garon made 33 saves on 33 shots for the win; Kevin Weekes stopped 17 of 21.
Scoring
1st period
Saku Koivu (20)Jan Bulis (23)1–008:55 MTL
Francis Bouillon (3)Mike Ribeiro (11), Richard Zednik (19)2–015:56 MTL
Richard Zednik (30)Mike Ribeiro (12), Marcel Hossa (7)3–019:54 MTL
2nd period
Donald Audette (11)Jan Bulis (24), Niklas Sundstrom (18)4–012:52 MTL
Team stats
MTLCAR
2133
52%48%
0/30/2
2224
715
169
12
01
Penalties
- 14:29 into the first period
Bruno St. Jacques · roughing2 min - 14:29 into the first period
Yanic Perreault · holding2 min - 10:06 into the second periodAaron Ward · holding2 min
- 14:47 into the second periodJeff O'Neill · roughing2 min
- 14:47 into the second periodBruno St. Jacques · roughing2 min
- 14:47 into the second periodBruno St. Jacques · roughing2 min
- 14:47 into the second periodGordie Dwyer · roughing2 min
- 14:47 into the second periodGordie Dwyer · roughing2 min
- 5:30 into the third periodCraig MacDonald · tripping2 min
- 13:48 into the third periodMarcel Hossa · boarding2 min
- 17:00 into the third periodJosef Vasicek · cross checking2 min
- 17:00 into the third periodNiclas Wallin · misconduct10 min
- 17:00 into the third periodGordie Dwyer · roughing2 min
- 17:00 into the third periodGordie Dwyer · misconduct10 min
- 19:03 into the third periodMike Komisarek · boarding2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 20Richard ZednikR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 18:41 |
| 38Jan BulisC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 16:24 |
| 71Mike RibeiroC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 18:38 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 20:34 |
| 37Niklas SundstromR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:40 |
| 81Marcel HossaL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 13:58 |
| 82Donald AudetteR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 17:13 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 22:32 |
| 21Randy MckayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:56 |
| 24Andreas DackellR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:26 |
| 25Chad KilgerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 01:37 |
| 32Gordie DwyerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:38 |
| 94Yanic PerreaultC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:06 |
| 5Stephane QuintalD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 21:33 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 16:24 |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20:18 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | 25:27 |
| 79Andrei MarkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 14:10 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mathieu GaronG | W | 33 | 0 | 1.000 |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | 0 | 0 | – |
Carolina Hurricanes
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:58 |
| 11Jeff DanielsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11:23 |
| 12Craig MacDonaldC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:12 |
| 19Radim VrbataR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 6 | 16:02 |
| 27Craig AdamsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | 18:34 |
| 29Mike WattL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:36 |
| 39Brad DefauwL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13:31 |
| 46Mike ZigomanisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:17 |
| 47Ryan BaydaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:32 |
| 63Josef VasicekC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 16:06 |
| 92Jeff O'NeillC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 7 | 18:00 |
| 4Aaron WardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 20:17 |
| 6Bret HedicanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21:22 |
| 7Niclas WallinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:07 |
| 21David TanabeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 15:59 |
| 22Sean HillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 23:18 |
| 25Bruno St. JacquesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 19:06 |
| 71Tomas MalecD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:06 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Arturs IrbeG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 80Kevin WeekesG | L | 21 | 4 | .809 |