Atlanta Thrashers vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Saturday, November 8, 2003 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The Atlanta Thrashers beat the New York Islanders 4–3 on Saturday, November 8, 2003 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Islanders outshot the Thrashers 30–23.
Goals came from Shawn Bates, Mariusz Czerkawski, Ronald Petrovicky, Ivan Majesky, Ilya Kovalchuk, Trent Hunter and Serge Aubin.
Pasi Nurminen made 27 saves on 30 shots for the win; Rick DiPietro stopped 19 of 23.
Scoring
1st period
Shawn Bates (4)Trent Hunter (2), Sean Bergenheim (1)0–101:56 NYI
2nd period
Mariusz Czerkawski (10)Alexei Yashin (7), Roman Hamrlik (5)0–201:13 NYI
Ronald Petrovicky (4)Serge Aubin (6), Jeff Cowan (5)1–208:22 ATL
Ivan Majesky (2)Patrik Stefan (4), Vyacheslav Kozlov (6)2–209:30 ATL
Ilya Kovalchuk (13)Frantisek Kaberle (7), Vyacheslav Kozlov (7)3–210:29 ATL · 
Trent Hunter (6)Unassisted3–314:25 NYI
3rd period
Serge Aubin (3)Shawn McEachern (10)4–311:28 ATL
Team stats
ATLNYI
2330
51%49%
1/40/6
1410
2522
187
39
84
Penalties
- 6:11 into the first period
Kenny Jonsson · high sticking2 min - 9:01 into the first periodAdrian Aucoin · roughing2 min
- 10:22 into the first period
Ilya Kovalchuk · hooking2 min - 12:13 into the first periodVyacheslav Kozlov · cross checking2 min
- 2:25 into the second periodFrancis Lessard · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 5:43 into the second periodTommi Santala · tripping2 min
- 10:05 into the second periodPasi Nurminen · roughing2 min
- 10:05 into the second periodEric Godard · roughing2 min
- 10:05 into the second periodEric Godard · slashing2 min
- 16:47 into the second periodIvan Majesky · tripping2 min
- 19:32 into the second periodMark Parrish · holding2 min
- 9:12 into the third periodVyacheslav Kozlov · interference goalkeeper2 min
Season series
Atlanta Thrashers
| 10Serge AubinC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 18:17 |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 21:59 |
| 16Jeff CowanL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11:49 |
| 17Ilya KovalchukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 22:14 |
| 19Shawn McEachernL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 21:21 |
| 26Ronald PetrovickyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14:03 |
| 27Patrik StefanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:33 |
| 8Frantisek KaberleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 22:32 |
| 23Ivan MajeskyD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 15:21 |
| 11Jean-Pierre VigierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:08 |
| 20Francis LessardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 04:30 |
| 24Tommi SantalaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 06:17 |
| 28Randy RobitailleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:36 |
| 42Karl StewartL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 03:22 |
| 2Garnet ExelbyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:21 |
| 25Andy SuttonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 23:24 |
| 36Daniel TjarnqvistD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 21:13 |
| 38Yannick TremblayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 16:59 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Pasi NurminenG | W | 30 | 3 | .900 |
| 34Byron DafoeG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Islanders
| 7Trent HunterR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 15:08 |
| 10Sean BergenheimL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11:00 |
| 17Shawn BatesC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:52 |
| 21Mariusz CzerkawskiR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 22:50 |
| 79Alexei YashinC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 24:11 |
| 4Roman HamrlikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 28:27 |
| 12Oleg KvashaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 25:02 |
| 16Justin MapletoftC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:02 |
| 26Justin PapineauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 08:30 |
| 27Michael PecaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:40 |
| 28Jason WiemerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:20 |
| 37Mark ParrishR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:57 |
| 49Eric GodardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:59 |
| 3Adrian AucoinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | 27:11 |
| 24Radek MartinekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:14 |
| 29Kenny JonssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:47 |
| 33Eric CairnsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:55 |
| 44Janne NiinimaaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 26:23 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Garth SnowG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Rick DiPietroG | L | 23 | 4 | .826 |