Tampa Bay Lightning vs Washington Capitals
Playoffs · Wednesday, April 16, 2003 · MCI Center
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Washington Capitals 3–1 on Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at MCI Center. The Lightning outshot the Capitals 25–23.
Martin St. Louis scored twice. Peter Bondra and Vincent Lecavalier also scored.
Nikolai Khabibulin made 22 saves on 23 shots for the win; Olie Kolzig stopped 22 of 25.
Scoring
2nd period
Martin St. Louis (2)Cory Sarich (2), Stan Neckar (1)1–011:55 TBL
Peter Bondra (3)Jason Doig (1)1–115:39 WSH- Martin St. Louis (3)Dave Andreychuk (3)2–117:40 TBL ·
3rd period
Vincent Lecavalier (3)Jassen Cullimore (1)3–101:24 TBL
Team stats
TBLWSH
2523
51%49%
0/60/3
612
1214
2111
1718
56
Penalties
- 0:39 into the second period
Peter Bondra · high sticking2 min - 0:39 into the second periodPeter Bondra · high sticking2 min
- 8:02 into the second periodJason Doig · tripping2 min
- 16:22 into the second period
Alexander Svitov · tripping2 min - 6:18 into the third periodAlexander Svitov · roughing2 min
- 9:58 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 11:36 into the third periodMichael Nylander · holding the stick2 min
- 15:42 into the third periodMichael Nylander · holding the stick2 min
- 17:23 into the third periodPeter Bondra · high sticking2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +3 | 4 | 17:47 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 20:24 |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 19:02 |
| 2Stan NeckarD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12:25 |
| 5Jassen CullimoreD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 22:33 |
| 21Cory SarichD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15:53 |
| 7Ben ClymerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13:36 |
| 11Chris DingmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:15 |
| 15Nikita AlexeevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 08:54 |
| 16Alexander SvitovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 07:18 |
| 17Ruslan FedotenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:38 |
| 19Brad RichardsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20:44 |
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 19:05 |
| 27Tim TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:06 |
| 33Freddy ModinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:14 |
| 13Pavel KubinaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 23:34 |
| 22Dan BoyleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23:30 |
| 37Brad LukowichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:11 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | W | 23 | 1 | .957 |
| 47John GrahameG | 0 | 0 | – |
Washington Capitals
| 12Peter BondraR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:59 |
| 54Jason DoigD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 12:48 |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 19:14 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:49 |
| 14Kip MillerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:02 |
| 20Robert LangC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:15 |
| 22Steve KonowalchukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:16 |
| 23Trent WhitfieldC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 07:28 |
| 25Mike GrierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:31 |
| 46Brian SutherbyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:01 |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 24:56 |
| 92Michael NylanderC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 18:44 |
| 94Sergei BerezinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 13:34 |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:33 |
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 18:51 |
| 19Brendan WittD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 22:20 |
| 29Joel KwiatkowskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 15:39 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 26:17 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Sebastien CharpentierG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | L | 25 | 3 | .880 |