Tampa Bay Lightning vs Atlanta Thrashers

Regular season · Sunday, April 6, 2003 · Philips Arena

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2–6

21–41

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Game summary

The Atlanta Thrashers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 6–2 on Sunday, April 6, 2003 at Philips Arena. The Thrashers outshot the Lightning 41–21.

Kamil Piros scored a hat trick and Dany Heatley scored twice. Ilya Kovalchuk, Janne Laukkanen and Vincent Lecavalier also scored.

Pasi Nurminen made 19 saves on 21 shots for the win; John Grahame stopped 35 of 41.

Goals
TBL	0	2	0	2	21
ATL	2	2	2	6	41

Scoring

1st period

Kamil Piros (1)Lubos Bartecko (9), Ilya Kovalchuk (28)0–104:32 ATL
Ilya Kovalchuk (38)Yannick Tremblay (22), Dany Heatley (48)0–206:06 ATL ·

2nd period

Kamil Piros (2)Unassisted0–300:07 ATL
Janne Laukkanen (2)Brad Richards (57), Vinny Prospal (56)1–306:55 TBL
Kamil Piros (3)Ilya Kovalchuk (29), Garnet Exelby (2)1–408:12 ATL
Vincent Lecavalier (33)Ruslan Fedotenko (13), Vinny Prospal (57)2–416:16 TBL

3rd period

Dany Heatley (40)Unassisted2–516:50 ATL
Dany Heatley (41)Vyacheslav Kozlov (49), Kamil Piros (2)2–619:24 ATL ·

Team stats

TBLATL

2141

57%43%

0/02/4

102

1323

105

710

75

Penalties

5:29 into the first periodTim Taylor · slashing2 min
6:37 into the first periodJohn Grahame · delaying game2 min
15:27 into the third periodGarnet Exelby · roughing2 min
15:27 into the third periodCory Sarich · roughing2 min
16:50 into the third periodPavel Kubina · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
18:17 into the third periodJassen Cullimore · high sticking2 min

Season series

Tampa Bay Lightning

Tampa Bay Lightning skaters

20Vinny ProspalL	0	2	2	+1	2	0	0	0	–	15:40
4Vincent LecavalierC	1	0	1	−1	4	0	0	0	41	16:52
17Ruslan FedotenkoL	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	–	16:52
19Brad RichardsC	0	1	1	−1	2	1	0	0	61	14:09
23Janne LaukkanenD	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	–	19:47
7Ben ClymerR	0	0	0	−1	1	1	0	0	–	14:44
11Chris DingmanL	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	–	11:59
15Nikita AlexeevR	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	–	13:30
16Alexander SvitovC	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	60	14:24
18Jimmie OlvestadL	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	–	12:36
26Martin St. LouisR	0	0	0	−2	0	0	0	0	–	12:43
27Tim TaylorC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	77	15:02
33Freddy ModinL	0	0	0	−1	1	0	0	0	–	13:25
3Marc BergevinD	0	0	0	−2	0	3	1	0	–	18:26
5Jassen CullimoreD	0	0	0	0	3	0	1	2	–	22:53
13Pavel KubinaD	0	0	0	+1	1	2	1	2	–	19:52
21Cory SarichD	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	–	21:54
44Nolan PrattD	0	0	0	−3	0	0	2	0	–	17:30

Tampa Bay Lightning goalies
Goalie
35Nikolai KhabibulinG		0	0	0	–	00:00
47John GrahameG	L	41	35	6	.854	60:00

Atlanta Thrashers

Atlanta Thrashers skaters

22Kamil PirosR	3	1	4	+3	7	1	0	0	58	21:27
15Dany HeatleyL	2	1	3	+1	9	1	0	0	–	21:28
17Ilya KovalchukL	1	2	3	+2	7	0	0	0	–	22:46
13Vyacheslav KozlovL	0	1	1	+1	3	0	0	0	100	20:42
23Lubos BarteckoL	0	1	1	+2	2	0	0	0	–	16:32
2Garnet ExelbyD	0	1	1	+1	0	3	0	2	–	17:02
38Yannick TremblayD	0	1	1	+1	2	2	1	0	–	25:45
6Francis LessardR	0	0	0	−1	1	1	0	0	–	10:08
12Tony HrkacC	0	0	0	−1	0	0	0	0	41	24:03
16Jeff CowanL	0	0	0	−1	2	3	0	0	–	08:50
20Jeff OdgersR	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	–	12:50
39Per SvartvadetC	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	–	09:25
45Benjamin SimonL	0	0	0	−1	2	5	0	0	25	14:54
4Chris TamerD	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	–	18:33
8Frantisek KaberleD	0	0	0	+2	1	1	0	0	–	22:07
29Kirill SafronovD	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	–	17:26
50Joe DipentaD	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	–	14:34

Atlanta Thrashers goalies
Goalie
31Pasi NurminenG	W	21	19	2	.905	60:00
33Milan HnilickaG		0	0	0	–	00:00