Buffalo Sabres vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Thursday, March 18, 2004 · St. Pete Times Forum
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Buffalo Sabres 3–1 on Thursday, March 18, 2004 at St. Pete Times Forum.
Goals came from Cory Stillman, Jochen Hecht, Tim Taylor and Martin St. Louis.
Nikolai Khabibulin made 25 saves on 26 shots for the win; Mika Noronen stopped 23 of 25.
Scoring
2nd period
Cory Stillman (24)Brad Richards (48), Pavel Kubina (18)0–115:07 TBL
Jochen Hecht (13)Jeff Jillson (11), Henrik Tallinder (9)1–116:02 BUF
3rd period
Tim Taylor (7)Dave Andreychuk (17)1–200:52 TBL
Martin St. Louis (35)Tim Taylor (13), Darryl Sydor (19)1–319:49 TBL ·
Team stats
BUFTBL
2626
45%55%
0/40/5
2424
811
59
610
514
Penalties
- 6:40 into the first period
Henrik Tallinder · high sticking2 min - 6:40 into the first periodHenrik Tallinder · high sticking2 min
- 8:05 into the first period
Pavel Kubina · hooking2 min - 11:19 into the first periodCory Stillman · hooking2 min
- 19:23 into the first periodCory Sarich · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodJ-P Dumont · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodMaxim Afinogenov · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodMaxim Afinogenov · fighting5 min
- 20:00 into the first periodTim Taylor · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodTim Taylor · fighting5 min
- 2:22 into the second periodJ-P Dumont · roughing2 min
- 5:05 into the second periodAndrew Peters · fighting5 min
- 5:05 into the second periodCory Sarich · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 5:05 into the second periodCory Sarich · fighting5 min
- 7:54 into the second periodBrad Lukowich · hooking2 min
- 6:46 into the third periodMiroslav Satan · roughing2 min
- 6:46 into the third periodBrad Richards · roughing2 min
- 9:43 into the third periodAdam Mair · high sticking2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 55Jochen HechtC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 17:22 |
| 10Henrik TallinderD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 11:49 |
| 34Jeff JillsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 15:51 |
| 9Derek RoyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 24:02 |
| 15Milan BartovicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:42 |
| 16Chris TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 07:07 |
| 17J-P DumontR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 13:48 |
| 22Adam MairC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:12 |
| 25Mike GrierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:35 |
| 48Daniel BrièreC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 17:05 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:00 |
| 76Andrew PetersL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 01:24 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 25:13 |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:05 |
| 4Brad BrownD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 14:55 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23:48 |
| 51Brian CampbellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 11:37 |
| 74Jay McKeeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 16:30 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Mika NoronenG | L | 25 | 2 | .920 |
| 43Martin BironG | 0 | 0 | – |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 27Tim TaylorC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 13:28 |
| 19Brad RichardsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 18:05 |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 19:27 |
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21:49 |
| 61Cory StillmanL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 19:25 |
| 13Pavel KubinaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 5 | 25:37 |
| 55Darryl SydorD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 23:23 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 20:14 |
| 8Martin CibakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:32 |
| 11Chris DingmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:35 |
| 17Ruslan FedotenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:54 |
| 29Dimitri AfanasenkovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 09:23 |
| 33Freddy ModinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 15:48 |
| 36Andre RoyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 05:18 |
| 5Jassen CullimoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 17:31 |
| 21Cory SarichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:54 |
| 22Dan BoyleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:56 |
| 37Brad LukowichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:55 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | W | 26 | 1 | .962 |
| 47John GrahameG | 0 | 0 | – |