Atlanta Thrashers vs Florida Panthers
Regular season · Saturday, December 2, 2006 · BankAtlantic Center
FS-F (HD) · SPSO
Game summary
The Atlanta Thrashers beat the Florida Panthers 3–1 on Saturday, December 2, 2006 at BankAtlantic Center. The Panthers outshot the Thrashers 28–25.
Goals came from Jean-Pierre Vigier, Olli Jokinen, Glen Metropolit and Ilya Kovalchuk.
Kari Lehtonen made 27 saves on 28 shots for the win; Ed Belfour stopped 22 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Jean-Pierre Vigier (3)Brad Larsen (3), Bobby Holik (8)1–006:26 ATL
Olli Jokinen (11)Ville Peltonen (6), Bryan Allen (6)1–117:11 FLA
2nd period
Glen Metropolit (5)Bobby Holik (9), Greg De Vries (8)2–104:01 ATL ·
3rd period
Ilya Kovalchuk (17)Scott Mellanby (12), Steve Rucchin (6)3–119:25 ATL ·
Team stats
ATLFLA
2528
49%51%
1/80/3
616
823
1413
89
87
Penalties
- 3:30 into the first period
Martin Gelinas · interference2 min
- 14:09 into the first period
Greg De Vries · hooking2 min
- 19:54 into the first period
Gary Roberts · hooking2 min
- 2:33 into the second period
Jozef Stumpel · interference2 min
- 5:37 into the second period
Chris Gratton · interference2 min
- 8:45 into the second period
Steve McCarthy · hooking2 min
- 9:50 into the second period
Bobby Holik · cross checking2 min
- 12:30 into the second period
Jay Bouwmeester · hooking2 min
- 18:16 into the second period
Nathan Horton · tripping2 min
- 1:42 into the third period
Mike Van Ryn · tripping2 min
- 9:06 into the third period
Mike Van Ryn · hooking2 min
Season series
Atlanta Thrashers
| 16Bobby HolikC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 19:10 |
| 9Glen MetropolitC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10:20 |
| 11Jean-Pierre VigierR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:02 |
| 17Ilya KovalchukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 24:35 |
| 19Scott MellanbyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:32 |
| 20Steve RucchinC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 18:24 |
| 29Brad LarsenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:52 |
| 7Greg De VriesD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 22:18 |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 20:35 |
| 14Jon SimL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:23 |
| 18Marian HossaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22:26 |
| 36Eric BoultonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 03:49 |
| 39Niko KapanenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 14:03 |
| 3Vitaly VishnevskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:23 |
| 4Braydon CoburnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:34 |
| 5Steve McCarthyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:18 |
| 28Niclas HavelidD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | 22:26 |
| 34Shane HnidyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:49 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Johan HedbergG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Kari LehtonenG | W | 28 | 1 | .964 |
Florida Panthers
| 12Olli JokinenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 7 | 21:13 |
| 18Ville PeltonenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:09 |
| 5Bryan AllenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20:38 |
| 9Stephen WeissC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 19:24 |
| 10Gary RobertsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 14:56 |
| 11Gregory CampbellC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15:27 |
| 15Jozef StumpelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:13 |
| 16Nathan HortonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:44 |
| 23Martin GelinasL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:06 |
| 50Drew LarmanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 04:45 |
| 51Rob GlobkeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:22 |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:02 |
| 85Rostislav OleszL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:08 |
| 2Branislav MezeiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:39 |
| 4Jay BouwmeesterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 25:55 |
| 8Joel KwiatkowskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:06 |
| 24Ruslan SaleiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22:30 |
| 26Mike Van RynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:05 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20Ed BelfourG | L | 24 | 2 | .917 |
| 35Alex AuldG | 0 | 0 | – |