New Jersey Devils vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Playoffs · Monday, April 28, 2003 · St. Pete Times Forum
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the New Jersey Devils 4–3 on Monday, April 28, 2003 at St. Pete Times Forum. The Lightning outshot the Devils 29–27.
Goals came from Vinny Prospal, Martin St. Louis, Freddy Modin, John Madden, Grant Marshall, Jeff Friesen and Dave Andreychuk.
Nikolai Khabibulin made 24 saves on 27 shots for the win; Martin Brodeur stopped 25 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Vinny Prospal (4)Martin St. Louis (5), Vincent Lecavalier (3)0–104:19 TBL · 
Martin St. Louis (7)Brad Richards (3), Ruslan Fedotenko (1)0–209:21 TBL
Freddy Modin (2)Brad Richards (4), Brad Lukowich (1)0–316:16 TBL
2nd period
John Madden (4)Jamie Langenbrunner (4), Scott Niedermayer (5)1–306:38 NJD · 
Grant Marshall (2)Scott Gomez (4), Patrik Elias (3)2–307:34 NJD
Jeff Friesen (2)Brian Gionta (1), Joe Nieuwendyk (3)3–315:06 NJD
3rd period
Dave Andreychuk (3)Ben Clymer (1), Andre Roy (1)3–406:08 TBL
Team stats
NJDTBL
2729
60%40%
1/41/2
48
2022
724
85
612
Penalties
- 2:48 into the first period
Patrik Elias · tripping2 min - 4:19 into the first periodScott Niedermayer · high sticking2 min
- 5:09 into the first period
Dave Andreychuk · high sticking2 min - 6:14 into the second periodVincent Lecavalier · slashing2 min
- 10:05 into the second periodJassen Cullimore · holding2 min
- 18:13 into the third periodPavel Kubina · holding2 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 11John MaddenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 20:32 |
| 12Jeff FriesenL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15:22 |
| 14Brian GiontaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 14:59 |
| 15Jamie LangenbrunnerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15:55 |
| 23Scott GomezC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13:33 |
| 25Joe NieuwendykC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 15:11 |
| 26Patrik EliasC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 14:51 |
| 29Grant MarshallR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12:42 |
| 27Scott NiedermayerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 29:33 |
| 18Sergei BrylinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:10 |
| 20Jay PandolfoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:36 |
| 21Pascal RheaumeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:41 |
| 24Turner StevensonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:17 |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:54 |
| 4Scott StevensD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:17 |
| 5Colin WhiteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24:09 |
| 10Oleg TverdovskyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:32 |
| 28Brian RafalskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 29:26 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Martin BrodeurG | L | 29 | 4 | .862 |
| 35Corey SchwabG | 0 | 0 | – |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 19Brad RichardsC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 20:18 |
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 19:45 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 16:49 |
| 7Ben ClymerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 13:27 |
| 17Ruslan FedotenkoL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 12:52 |
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 15:05 |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 16:55 |
| 33Freddy ModinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:34 |
| 36Andre RoyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 13:52 |
| 37Brad LukowichD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13:48 |
| 11Chris DingmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:52 |
| 15Nikita AlexeevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:41 |
| 27Tim TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:40 |
| 5Jassen CullimoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 19:43 |
| 13Pavel KubinaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:47 |
| 21Cory SarichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 25:00 |
| 22Dan BoyleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 23:56 |
| 44Nolan PrattD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 19:41 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | W | 27 | 3 | .889 |
| 47John GrahameG | 0 | 0 | – |