New York Rangers vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Saturday, April 5, 2003 · Centre Bell
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the New York Rangers 5–4 on Saturday, April 5, 2003 at Centre Bell. The Rangers outshot the Canadiens 38–24.
Sandy McCarthy scored twice and Yanic Perreault scored twice. Richard Zednik, Petr Nedved, Stephane Quintal, Saku Koivu and Eric Lindros also scored.
Jose Theodore made 34 saves on 38 shots for the win; Dan Blackburn stopped 19 of 23.
Scoring
1st period
Sandy McCarthy (5)Matthew Barnaby (20)1–015:25 NYR
2nd period
Yanic Perreault (23)Patrick Traverse (13), Andreas Dackell (17)1–101:10 MTL- Yanic Perreault (24)Mike Komisarek (1), Andreas Dackell (18)1–203:30 MTL
Richard Zednik (31)Unassisted1–306:54 MTL
3rd period
Petr Nedved (27)Tom Poti (37), Brian Leetch (18)2–302:00 NYR · - Sandy McCarthy (6)Matthew Barnaby (21), Bobby Holik (19)3–306:48 NYR
Stephane Quintal (5)Niklas Sundstrom (19), Yanic Perreault (22)3–417:46 MTL
Saku Koivu (21)Unassisted3–519:10 MTL · 
Eric Lindros (19)Matthew Barnaby (22), Sandy McCarthy (9)4–519:43 NYR
Team stats
NYRMTL
3824
50%50%
1/40/2
2115
103
815
1119
128
Penalties
- 11:02 into the first period
Sandy McCarthy · elbowing2 min - 18:42 into the first period
Mike Komisarek · cross checking2 min - 7:13 into the second periodMike Komisarek · fighting5 min
- 7:13 into the second periodDale Purinton · fighting5 min
- 7:13 into the second periodDale Purinton · misconduct10 min
- 0:40 into the third periodMike Komisarek · high sticking2 min
- 0:40 into the third periodMike Komisarek · high sticking2 min
- 8:07 into the third periodSandy McCarthy · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 10:35 into the third periodRichard Zednik · roughing2 min
- 10:35 into the third periodRichard Zednik · roughing2 min
- 10:35 into the third periodDarius Kasparaitis · roughing2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 10Sandy McCarthyR | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 12:37 |
| 36Matthew BarnabyR | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13:01 |
| 16Bobby HolikC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 12:52 |
| 88Eric LindrosC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 17:12 |
| 93Petr NedvedC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 22:42 |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 25:34 |
| 3Tom PotiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 1 | 24:21 |
| 8Ted DonatoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 13:21 |
| 22Anson CarterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:08 |
| 26Jamie LundmarkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:44 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:04 |
| 28Roman LyashenkoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:35 |
| 38Ronald PetrovickyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:59 |
| 39Dan LacoutureL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:13 |
| 5Dale PurintonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 13:25 |
| 6Darius KasparaitisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 17:29 |
| 18Ales PisaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | 20:00 |
| 29Boris MironovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 19:11 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mike DunhamG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Dan BlackburnG | L | 23 | 4 | .826 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 94Yanic PerreaultC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 10 | 15:07 |
| 24Andreas DackellR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 15:43 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 18:53 |
| 20Richard ZednikR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 14:01 |
| 37Niklas SundstromR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 16:33 |
| 5Stephane QuintalD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:29 |
| 8Mike KomisarekD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:22 |
| 54Patrick TraverseD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22:07 |
| 17Jason WardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:15 |
| 21Randy MckayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:30 |
| 32Gordie DwyerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:57 |
| 38Jan BulisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:11 |
| 71Mike RibeiroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:42 |
| 81Marcel HossaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 13:20 |
| 82Donald AudetteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:20 |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 19:22 |
| 51Francis BouillonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:11 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:55 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mathieu GaronG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | W | 38 | 4 | .895 |