Tampa Bay Lightning vs Atlanta Thrashers
Regular season · Saturday, December 20, 2008 · Philips Arena
XM 207 · SPSO · WTOG
Game summary
The Atlanta Thrashers beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4–3 on Saturday, December 20, 2008 at Philips Arena. The Lightning outshot the Thrashers 39–30.
Martin St. Louis scored twice. Vyacheslav Kozlov, Adam Hall, Eric Perrin, Todd White and Joey Crabb also scored.
Kari Lehtonen made 36 saves on 39 shots for the win; Mike Smith stopped 26 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Vyacheslav Kozlov (15)Unassisted0–100:18 ATL
Martin St. Louis (11)Ryan Malone (6), Mark Recchi (11)1–103:54 TBL · 
Adam Hall (3)Jussi Jokinen (5), Ryan Craig (2)2–108:15 TBL
Eric Perrin (3)Boris Valabik (3), Jason Williams (8)2–215:13 ATL
Todd White (10)Bryan Little (12), Ilya Kovalchuk (22)2–318:23 ATL ·
3rd period
Joey Crabb (2)Eric Boulton (3), Jim Slater (6)2–404:06 ATL- Martin St. Louis (12)Vincent Lecavalier (15), Steven Stamkos (10)3–417:28 TBL ·
Team stats
TBLATL
3930
48%52%
2/61/4
1216
813
118
75
49
Penalties
- 2:39 into the first period
Boris Valabik · interference2 min - 15:29 into the first period
Lukas Krajicek · interference2 min - 18:10 into the first periodVinny Prospal · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 18:58 into the first periodBoris Valabik · holding2 min
- 5:42 into the second periodAndrej Meszaros · hooking2 min
- 13:31 into the second periodMarek Malik · hooking2 min
- 19:00 into the second periodRon Hainsey · holding2 min
- 11:40 into the third periodEric Perrin · hooking2 min
- 14:42 into the third periodMathieu Schneider · interference2 min
- 16:59 into the third periodBoris Valabik · holding2 min
- 17:28 into the third periodNiclas Havelid · slashing2 min
- 17:28 into the third periodRyan Malone · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodNathan Oystrick · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodVincent Lecavalier · roughing2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 7 | 22:39 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 21:53 |
| 8Mark RecchiR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20:18 |
| 12Ryan MaloneL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 21:43 |
| 18Adam HallR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 10:19 |
| 34Ryan CraigC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10:48 |
| 36Jussi JokinenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 11:37 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13:22 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:03 |
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 18:31 |
| 24Matt PettingerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 07:39 |
| 38Paul SzczechuraC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:54 |
| 2Lukas KrajicekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:53 |
| 14Andrej MeszarosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | 24:24 |
| 22Marek MalikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 20:28 |
| 23Jamie HewardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:18 |
| 44Steve EmingerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 17:07 |
| 54Paul RangerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 20:47 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37Olie KolzigG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Mike SmithG | L | 30 | 4 | .867 |
Atlanta Thrashers
| 10Bryan LittleC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 14:59 |
| 11Eric PerrinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 17:01 |
| 12Todd WhiteC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:39 |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 16:04 |
| 14Jason WilliamsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 14:27 |
| 17Ilya KovalchukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20:19 |
| 23Jim SlaterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 11:09 |
| 36Eric BoultonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 07:16 |
| 42Joey CrabbR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 11:45 |
| 48Boris ValabikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 11:36 |
| 19Marty ReasonerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:57 |
| 20Colby ArmstrongR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 13:59 |
| 27Chris ThorburnR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11:46 |
| 6Ron HainseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 20:01 |
| 7Nathan OystrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:38 |
| 18Mathieu SchneiderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:23 |
| 28Niclas HavelidD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 22:29 |
| 39Toby EnstromD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 23:48 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Johan HedbergG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Kari LehtonenG | W | 39 | 3 | .923 |