Toronto Maple Leafs vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Wednesday, November 25, 2009 · St. Pete Times Forum
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Game summary
The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4–3 on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 at St. Pete Times Forum. The Maple Leafs outshot the Lightning 35–31.
Niklas Hagman scored twice. Nikolay Kulemin, Andrej Meszaros, Vincent Lecavalier, Ryan Malone and Matt Stajan also scored.
Jonas Gustavsson made 28 saves on 31 shots for the win; Antero Niittymaki stopped 31 of 35.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Nikolay Kulemin (1)Carl Gunnarsson (1), Wayne Primeau (1)1–006:45 TOR
Niklas Hagman (1)Francois Beauchemin (1), Carl Gunnarsson (2)2–011:54 TOR
Andrej Meszaros (1)Steve Downie (1), Steven Stamkos (1)2–114:14 TBL · 
Vincent Lecavalier (1)Jeff Halpern (1), Alex Tanguay (1)2–214:44 TBL
2nd period
- Niklas Hagman (2)Mikhail Grabovski (1), Garnet Exelby (1)3–201:20 TOR
Ryan Malone (1)Steven Stamkos (2), Martin St. Louis (1)3–307:51 TBL
Matt Stajan (1)Carl Gunnarsson (3)4–318:13 TOR
Team stats
TORTBL
3531
51%49%
0/31/3
66
1517
1510
129
59
Penalties
- 7:00 into the first period
Steve Downie · charging2 min - 13:28 into the first period
Ian White · tripping2 min - 15:04 into the first periodChristian Hanson · roughing2 min
- 15:43 into the second periodVictor Hedman · tripping2 min
- 7:57 into the third periodAlex Tanguay · tripping2 min
- 9:21 into the third periodNikolay Kulemin · tripping2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 36Carl GunnarssonD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 3 | 24:26 |
| 9Niklas HagmanL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 6 | 15:19 |
| 14Matt StajanC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 18:33 |
| 18Wayne PrimeauC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 13:36 |
| 41Nikolay KuleminL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 15:08 |
| 84Mikhail GrabovskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:11 |
| 3Garnet ExelbyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 14:56 |
| 22Francois BeaucheminD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 28:36 |
| 12Lee StempniakR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 18:05 |
| 20Christian HansonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 11:56 |
| 21Jamal MayersR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:16 |
| 23Alexei PonikarovskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:39 |
| 28Colton OrrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:01 |
| 55Jason BlakeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:00 |
| 81Phil KesselC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 20:30 |
| 2Luke SchennD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 15:13 |
| 7Ian WhiteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:42 |
| 15Tomas KaberleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 16:07 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Joey MacDonaldG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 50Jonas GustavssonG | W | 31 | 3 | .903 |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 91Steven StamkosC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 20:10 |
| 4Vincent LecavalierC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 19:33 |
| 9Steve DownieR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 11:56 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 17:22 |
| 12Ryan MaloneL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 20:37 |
| 13Alex TanguayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 16:14 |
| 26Martin St. LouisR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 4 | 22:35 |
| 14Andrej MeszarosD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 25:40 |
| 19Stephane VeilleuxL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11:25 |
| 28Zenon KonopkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:44 |
| 38Paul SzczechuraC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:14 |
| 43James WrightC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:07 |
| 2Lukas KrajicekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 19:57 |
| 6Kurtis FosterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:11 |
| 8Matt WalkerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:50 |
| 21David HaleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:30 |
| 39Mike LundinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:59 |
| 77Victor HedmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:01 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Antero NiittymakiG | L | 35 | 4 | .886 |
| 41Mike SmithG | 0 | 0 | – |