Tampa Bay Lightning vs Carolina Hurricanes
Regular season · Thursday, January 29, 2009 · RBC Center
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Game summary
The Carolina Hurricanes beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 3–2 on Thursday, January 29, 2009 at RBC Center. The Hurricanes outshot the Lightning 31–29.
Goals came from Mark Recchi, Chad LaRose, Matt Cullen, Ryan Malone and Eric Staal.
Cam Ward made 27 saves on 29 shots for the win; Mike Smith stopped 28 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Mark Recchi (11)Unassisted1–016:55 TBL
2nd period
Chad LaRose (11)Matt Cullen (8)1–105:34 CAR · 
Matt Cullen (11)Joni Pitkanen (18)1–218:36 CAR
3rd period
Ryan Malone (15)Mark Recchi (22), Steve Downie (2)2–205:10 TBL
Eric Staal (21)Sergei Samsonov (16), Tim Gleason (9)2–318:24 CAR
Team stats
TBLCAR
2931
56%44%
0/30/4
108
2218
1114
54
53
Penalties
- 4:11 into the first period
Bench · too many men on the ice2 min - 7:56 into the first period
Evgeny Artyukhin · holding2 min - 13:26 into the first periodPatrick Eaves · holding2 min
- 17:11 into the first periodEvgeny Artyukhin · roughing2 min
- 5:10 into the second periodTuomo Ruutu · high sticking2 min
- 14:39 into the second periodRyan Malone · tripping2 min
- 3:02 into the third periodRyan Bayda · roughing2 min
- 3:02 into the third periodSteve Downie · roughing2 min
- 5:53 into the third periodRyan Malone · tripping2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 8Mark RecchiR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 16:26 |
| 9Steve DownieR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 09:59 |
| 12Ryan MaloneL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 16:51 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 20:17 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 16:41 |
| 18Adam HallR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:08 |
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:03 |
| 24Matt PettingerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:37 |
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 21:40 |
| 34Ryan CraigC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 08:10 |
| 36Jussi JokinenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 13:55 |
| 76Evgeny ArtyukhinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11:36 |
| 2Lukas KrajicekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:25 |
| 14Andrej MeszarosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 24:39 |
| 21Cory MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:35 |
| 32Matt SmabyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 09:59 |
| 44Steve EmingerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 23:38 |
| 54Paul RangerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 22:27 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Riku HeleniusG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Mike SmithG | L | 31 | 3 | .903 |
Carolina Hurricanes
| 8Matt CullenC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 5 | 19:13 |
| 12Eric StaalC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 21:31 |
| 14Sergei SamsonovL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 17:12 |
| 59Chad LaRoseR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:02 |
| 6Tim GleasonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 22:12 |
| 25Joni PitkanenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 26:13 |
| 11Justin WilliamsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 16:22 |
| 13Ray WhitneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:48 |
| 15Tuomo RuutuL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:08 |
| 16Brandon SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 06:50 |
| 17Rod Brind'AmourC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:44 |
| 18Ryan BaydaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 06:59 |
| 36Michael RyanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:52 |
| 44Patrick EavesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13:41 |
| 5Frantisek KaberleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:06 |
| 29Bryan RodneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:06 |
| 33Anton BabchukD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 23:12 |
| 77Joe CorvoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 25:11 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Cam WardG | W | 29 | 2 | .931 |
| 49Michael LeightonG | 0 | 0 | – |