Florida Panthers vs Atlanta Thrashers
Regular season · Thursday, December 27, 2007 · Philips Arena
XM 204 · FS-F (HD) · SPSO
Game summary
The Florida Panthers beat the Atlanta Thrashers 5–3 on Thursday, December 27, 2007 at Philips Arena. The Thrashers outshot the Panthers 41–29.
Nathan Horton scored twice and Ilya Kovalchuk scored twice. Radek Dvorak, Ruslan Salei, Mark Recchi and Jay Bouwmeester also scored.
Tomas Vokoun made 38 saves on 41 shots for the win; Kari Lehtonen stopped 24 of 28.
Scoring
1st period
Nathan Horton (9)Olli Jokinen (19), Jozef Stumpel (11)1–008:16 FLA
Radek Dvorak (4)Richard Zednik (8), Brett McLean (3)2–010:51 FLA
3rd period
Ilya Kovalchuk (30)Todd White (12), Ken Klee (5)2–100:56 ATL
Ruslan Salei (3)Kamil Kreps (5)3–103:09 FLA
Mark Recchi (7)Ilya Kovalchuk (19), Toby Enstrom (19)3–207:07 ATL · - Nathan Horton (10)Jassen Cullimore (3), Stephen Weiss (15)4–213:14 FLA
- Ilya Kovalchuk (31)Bobby Holik (10), Alexei Zhitnik (3)4–314:33 ATL ·
Jay Bouwmeester (5)Jozef Stumpel (12)5–319:04 FLA ·
Team stats
FLAATL
2941
39%61%
0/21/3
64
1811
1313
67
911
Penalties
- 5:20 into the first period
Bobby Holik · hooking2 min - 11:33 into the first period
Branislav Mezei · hooking2 min - 8:09 into the second periodSteve Montador · holding2 min
- 6:30 into the third periodNathan Horton · cross checking2 min
- 13:39 into the third periodMark Recchi · slashing2 min
Season series
Florida Panthers
| 15Jozef StumpelL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | 17:53 |
| 16Nathan HortonR | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 17:11 |
| 9Stephen WeissC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20:00 |
| 12Olli JokinenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:08 |
| 14Radek DvorakR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 19:09 |
| 20Richard ZednikR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 16:20 |
| 53Brett McLeanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 16:04 |
| 54Kamil KrepsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 09:08 |
| 4Jay BouwmeesterD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 25:01 |
| 22Jassen CullimoreD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 17:18 |
| 24Ruslan SaleiD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 23:38 |
| 11Gregory CampbellC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:46 |
| 37Tanner GlassL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 04:24 |
| 57Anthony StewartR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 04:28 |
| 85Rostislav OleszL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:51 |
| 2Branislav MezeiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 16:21 |
| 5Bryan AllenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 22:12 |
| 7Steve MontadorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:31 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Tomas VokounG | W | 41 | 3 | .927 |
| 31Craig AndersonG | 0 | 0 | – |
Atlanta Thrashers
| 17Ilya KovalchukL | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 4 | 24:03 |
| 8Mark RecchiR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 2 | 18:57 |
| 12Todd WhiteC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 5 | 17:43 |
| 16Bobby HolikC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:59 |
| 22Ken KleeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 19:06 |
| 39Toby EnstromD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 2 | 24:59 |
| 77Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 20:14 |
| 9Pascal DupuisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:24 |
| 11Eric PerrinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 22:04 |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:13 |
| 18Marian HossaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 7 | 21:00 |
| 23Jim SlaterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 07:03 |
| 27Chris ThorburnR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:34 |
| 29Brad LarsenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11:21 |
| 36Eric BoultonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:39 |
| 2Garnet ExelbyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:47 |
| 5Steve McCarthyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:13 |
| 28Niclas HavelidD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 20:45 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Johan HedbergG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Kari LehtonenG | L | 28 | 4 | .857 |