Carolina Hurricanes vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Saturday, March 7, 2009 · St. Pete Times Forum
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Game summary
The Carolina Hurricanes beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 9–3 on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at St. Pete Times Forum. The Hurricanes outshot the Lightning 37–25.
Eric Staal scored 4 goals and Tuomo Ruutu scored twice. Anton Babchuk, Martin St. Louis, Joe Corvo, Rod Brind'Amour, Vincent Lecavalier and Ryan Malone also scored.
Cam Ward made 22 saves on 25 shots for the win; Karri Ramo stopped 16 of 22.
Scoring
1st period
Eric Staal (29)Rod Brind'Amour (25)1–007:01 CAR · - Eric Staal (30)Erik Cole (12), Tuomo Ruutu (23)2–009:40 CAR
Anton Babchuk (9)Joni Pitkanen (22)3–010:09 CAR
Martin St. Louis (24)Steven Stamkos (18), Paul Szczechura (3)3–112:43 TBL
2nd period
Joe Corvo (12)Erik Cole (13), Eric Staal (25)4–102:41 CAR
Rod Brind'Amour (9)Sergei Samsonov (25), Matt Cullen (17)5–103:48 CAR · 
Tuomo Ruutu (18)Sergei Samsonov (26), Joe Corvo (17)6–106:03 CAR · - Eric Staal (31)Chad LaRose (11), Tuomo Ruutu (24)7–112:48 CAR
- Eric Staal (32)Tuomo Ruutu (25), Erik Cole (14)8–116:45 CAR
- Tuomo Ruutu (19)Eric Staal (26), Erik Cole (15)9–119:33 CAR
3rd period
Vincent Lecavalier (28)Ryan Malone (15), Vinny Prospal (24)9–203:30 TBL
Ryan Malone (23)Vinny Prospal (25), Vincent Lecavalier (34)9–309:12 TBL
Team stats
CARTBL
3725
38%62%
2/50/4
1012
1421
1914
810
57
Penalties
- 6:47 into the first period
Ray Whitney · hooking2 min - 14:10 into the first periodEric Staal · cross checking2 min
- 17:53 into the first periodAnton Babchuk · slashing2 min
- 3:11 into the second period
Evgeny Artyukhin · holding2 min - 5:42 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 5:51 into the second periodJeff Halpern · hooking2 min
- 11:06 into the third periodPaul Szczechura · hooking2 min
- 14:34 into the third periodMatt Cullen · hooking2 min
- 19:51 into the third periodTim Gleason · roughing2 min
- 19:51 into the third periodDavid Koci · roughing2 min
- 19:51 into the third periodDavid Koci · roughing2 min
Season series
Carolina Hurricanes
| 12Eric StaalC | 4 | 2 | 6 | +4 | 6 | 13:55 |
| 15Tuomo RuutuL | 2 | 3 | 5 | +3 | 4 | 14:05 |
| 26Erik ColeL | 0 | 4 | 4 | +2 | 1 | 14:50 |
| 14Sergei SamsonovL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 15:06 |
| 17Rod Brind'AmourC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 18:56 |
| 77Joe CorvoD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 2 | 18:34 |
| 8Matt CullenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:21 |
| 59Chad LaRoseR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:07 |
| 25Joni PitkanenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22:39 |
| 33Anton BabchukD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 21:42 |
| 13Ray WhitneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 13:38 |
| 20Michael RyanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 09:46 |
| 44Patrick EavesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 17:17 |
| 63Dwight HelminenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:40 |
| 4Dennis SeidenbergD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 22:04 |
| 6Tim GleasonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 0 | 18:08 |
| 7Niclas WallinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:11 |
| 38Tim ConboyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:05 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Cam WardG | W | 25 | 3 | .880 |
| 49Michael LeightonG | 0 | 0 | – |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 4 | 18:08 |
| 12Ryan MaloneL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 3 | 15:43 |
| 20Vinny ProspalL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 17:46 |
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 4 | 20:04 |
| 38Paul SzczechuraC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 11:30 |
| 91Steven StamkosC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 0 | 18:44 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:50 |
| 18Adam HallR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:17 |
| 24Matt PettingerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 17:23 |
| 33David KociL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 11:59 |
| 34Ryan CraigC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:16 |
| 44Martins KarsumsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:27 |
| 76Evgeny ArtyukhinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:47 |
| 2Lukas KrajicekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:17 |
| 6Josef MelicharD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:48 |
| 7Noah WelchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 27:22 |
| 21Cory MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 22:58 |
| 32Matt SmabyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 16:49 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mike McKennaG | 15 | 3 | .800 | |
| 31Karri RamoG | L | 22 | 6 | .727 |