Toronto Maple Leafs vs Washington Capitals

Regular season · Wednesday, January 21, 2004 · MCI Center

TorontoMaple LeafsAway

3–2

21–23

WashingtonCapitalsHome

Game summary

The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Washington Capitals 3–2 on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 at MCI Center. The Capitals outshot the Maple Leafs 23–21.

Alexei Ponikarovsky scored twice. Trent Whitfield, Craig Johnson and Peter Bondra also scored.

Ed Belfour made 21 saves on 23 shots for the win; Olie Kolzig stopped 18 of 21.

Goals
TOR	0	1	2	3	21
WSH	0	1	1	2	23

Scoring

2nd period

Trent Whitfield (2)Josef Boumedienne (1), Joel Kwiatkowski (4)0–103:05 WSH
Craig Johnson (2)Carlo Colaiacovo (1), Tie Domi (9)1–105:18 TOR

3rd period

Alexei Ponikarovsky (3)Bryan McCabe (18)2–103:43 TOR
Alexei Ponikarovsky (4)Tomas Kaberle (13), Nik Antropov (8)3–108:28 TOR
Peter Bondra (17)Sergei Gonchar (38), Robert Lang (34)3–214:20 WSH ·

Team stats

TORWSH

2123

54%46%

0/31/5

1511

1715

1311

1422

914

Penalties

6:03 into the first periodCraig Johnson · holding2 min
12:58 into the first periodTie Domi · fighting5 min
12:58 into the first periodDarcy Verot · fighting5 min
1:29 into the second periodNik Antropov · slashing2 min
2:25 into the second periodJeff Halpern · tripping2 min
12:38 into the second periodMatt Stajan · hooking2 min
16:07 into the second periodKip Miller · hooking obstruction2 min
9:02 into the third periodDarcy Verot · hooking2 min
10:45 into the third periodNik Antropov · high sticking2 min
13:12 into the third periodCarlo Colaiacovo · holding the stick2 min

Season series

Toronto Maple Leafs

Toronto Maple Leafs skaters

23Alexei PonikarovskyL	2	0	2	+2	5	1	0	0	–	15:30
28Tie DomiR	0	1	1	+1	2	1	0	5	–	12:33
33Craig JohnsonL	1	0	1	+1	2	0	1	2	–	13:33
80Nik AntropovC	0	1	1	+2	2	0	2	4	–	16:35
15Tomas KaberleD	0	1	1	+2	0	1	0	0	–	23:46
24Bryan McCabeD	0	1	1	+2	1	2	1	0	–	25:17
45Carlo ColaiacovoD	0	1	1	+1	0	5	1	2	–	14:17
7Gary RobertsL	0	0	0	−1	0	1	2	0	–	17:10
9Josh HoldenC	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	–	10:32
13Mats SundinC	0	0	0	−1	2	0	1	0	58	20:17
14Matt StajanC	0	0	0	+1	1	0	1	2	25	12:58
19Mikael RenbergR	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	–	13:27
25Joe NieuwendykC	0	0	0	+2	0	0	0	0	75	16:51
26Nathan PerrottR	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	–	09:45
39Clarke WilmC	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	42	12:04
8Aki BergD	0	0	0	−1	1	1	3	0	–	21:02
27Bryan MarchmentD	0	0	0	+1	1	1	0	0	–	12:56
29Karel PilarD	0	0	0	−1	1	0	0	0	–	22:42

Toronto Maple Leafs goalies
Goalie
20Ed BelfourG	W	23	21	2	.913	60:00
37Trevor KiddG		0	0	0	–	–

Washington Capitals

Washington Capitals skaters

12Peter BondraR	1	0	1	0	5	0	1	0	–	22:00
20Robert LangC	0	1	1	−2	1	1	1	0	30	27:00
23Trent WhitfieldC	1	0	1	+1	2	0	1	0	53	13:53
2Josef BoumedienneD	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	–	13:47
29Joel KwiatkowskiD	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	–	18:05
55Sergei GoncharD	0	1	1	−1	1	0	1	0	–	28:45
11Jeff HalpernC	0	0	0	−1	2	1	1	2	47	21:11
13Bates BattagliaL	0	0	0	−1	0	0	0	0	–	10:16
14Kip MillerC	0	0	0	−1	1	0	0	2	60	10:26
18Matt PettingerL	0	0	0	−1	0	1	1	0	–	10:13
25Mike GrierR	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	–	17:15
28Alexander SeminR	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	–	12:16
51Stephen PeatR	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	03:03
68Jaromir JagrR	0	0	0	−2	2	0	2	0	–	26:54
76Darcy VerotC	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	7	43	09:23
3Jason DoigD	0	0	0	−1	2	1	0	0	–	17:24
4Rick BerryD	0	0	0	−1	1	2	1	0	–	13:29
19Brendan WittD	0	0	0	−1	0	6	1	0	–	18:56

Washington Capitals goalies
Goalie
1Rastislav StanaG		0	0	0	–	–
37Olie KolzigG	L	21	18	3	.857	58:54