Carolina Hurricanes vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Thursday, October 26, 2006 · St. Pete Times Forum
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Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5–1 on Thursday, October 26, 2006 at St. Pete Times Forum. The Lightning outshot the Hurricanes 27–24.
Martin St. Louis scored a hat trick. Ruslan Fedotenko, Vincent Lecavalier and Eric Staal also scored.
Marc Denis made 23 saves on 24 shots for the win; Cam Ward stopped 17 of 21.
Scoring
1st period
Ruslan Fedotenko (4)Cory Sarich (2), Paul Ranger (3)0–107:02 TBL
2nd period
Martin St. Louis (3)Brad Richards (6), Filip Kuba (2)0–210:46 TBL · - Martin St. Louis (4)Filip Kuba (3), Brad Richards (7)0–315:22 TBL
- Martin St. Louis (5)Dan Boyle (4)0–417:03 TBL
3rd period
Vincent Lecavalier (4)Ruslan Fedotenko (4), Paul Ranger (4)0–504:20 TBL · 
Eric Staal (6)Unassisted1–514:45 CAR ·
Team stats
CARTBL
2427
47%53%
0/32/5
106
1617
819
1012
1016
Penalties
- 9:11 into the first period
Filip Kuba · hooking2 min - 11:31 into the first period
Andrew Ladd · roughing2 min - 6:46 into the second periodScott Walker · hooking2 min
- 10:05 into the second periodAndrew Hutchinson · tripping2 min
- 11:22 into the second periodRuslan Fedotenko · diving2 min
- 3:44 into the third periodErik Cole · slashing2 min
- 12:56 into the third periodAnton Babchuk · high sticking2 min
- 17:50 into the third periodCory Sarich · boarding2 min
Season series
Carolina Hurricanes
| 12Eric StaalC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 7 | 17:22 |
| 11Justin WilliamsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 19:07 |
| 13Ray WhitneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:01 |
| 14Kevyn AdamsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:31 |
| 16Andrew LaddL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:34 |
| 17Rod Brind'AmourC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 22:18 |
| 18Ryan BaydaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 08:58 |
| 24Scott WalkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:13 |
| 25Eric BelangerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:12 |
| 26Erik ColeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:52 |
| 27Craig AdamsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:25 |
| 59Chad LaRoseR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 11:46 |
| 2Glen WesleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:00 |
| 6Bret HedicanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:41 |
| 8Tim GleasonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23:46 |
| 22Mike CommodoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 20:01 |
| 28Andrew HutchinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:06 |
| 48Anton BabchukD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:44 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Cam WardG | L | 21 | 4 | .809 |
| 47John GrahameG | 6 | 1 | .833 |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +1 | 6 | 23:17 |
| 17Ruslan FedotenkoL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 7 | 19:01 |
| 19Brad RichardsC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 20:56 |
| 54Paul RangerD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 19:23 |
| 71Filip KubaD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 20:50 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 20:40 |
| 21Cory SarichD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17:46 |
| 22Dan BoyleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 22:29 |
| 9Eric PerrinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:37 |
| 15Nikita AlexeevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 18:00 |
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:34 |
| 24Andreas KarlssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:11 |
| 27Tim TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 08:48 |
| 29Dimitri AfanasenkovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:43 |
| 74Nick TarnaskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 07:04 |
| 3Doug JanikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:49 |
| 7Luke RichardsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:43 |
| 44Nolan PrattD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:38 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Marc DenisG | W | 24 | 1 | .958 |
| 40Johan HolmqvistG | 0 | 0 | – |