National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Carolina 9, Tampa Bay 3
When: 7:30 PM ET, Saturday, March 7, 2009
Where: Tampa Bay Times Forum, Tampa, Florida
Referees: Dan O'Rourke, Tim Peel
Linesmen: Brad Lazarowich, Jonny Murray
Attendance: 15692
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Carolina 3609
Tampa Bay 1023
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
7:01 - Hurricanes Eric Staal (SH) Assists: Rod Brind'Amour
9:40 - Hurricanes Eric Staal (EV) Assists: Erik Cole , Tuomo Ruutu
10:09 - Hurricanes Anton Babchuk (EV) Assists: Joni Pitkanen
12:43 - Lightning Martin St. Louis (EV) Assists: Steven Stamkos , Paul Szczechura
Penalties
6:47 - Hurricanes Ray Whitney (2) Hooking
 14:10 - Hurricanes Eric Staal (2) Cross checking
 17:53 - Hurricanes Anton Babchuk (2) Slashing
2nd Period
Scoring
2:41 - Hurricanes Joe Corvo (EV) Assists: Erik Cole , Eric Staal
3:48 - Hurricanes Rod Brind'Amour (PP) Assists: Sergei Samsonov , Matt Cullen
6:03 - Hurricanes Tuomo Ruutu (PP) Assists: Sergei Samsonov , Joe Corvo
12:48 - Hurricanes Eric Staal (EV) Assists: Chad Larose , Tuomo Ruutu
16:45 - Hurricanes Eric Staal (EV) Assists: Tuomo Ruutu , Erik Cole
19:33 - Hurricanes Tuomo Ruutu (EV) Assists: Eric Staal , Erik Cole
Penalties
3:11 - Lightning Evgeny Artyukhin (2) Holding
 5:42 - Lightning Evgeny Artyukhin (2) Too many men on ice
 5:51 - Lightning Jeff Halpern (2) Hooking
3rd Period
Scoring
3:30 - Lightning Vincent Lecavalier (EV) Assists: Ryan Malone , Vinny Prospal
9:12 - Lightning Ryan Malone (EV) Assists: Vinny Prospal , Vincent Lecavalier
Penalties
11:06 - Lightning Paul Szczechura (2) Hooking
 14:34 - Hurricanes Matt Cullen (2) Hooking
 19:51 - Hurricanes Tim Gleason (2) Roughing
 19:51 - Lightning David Koci (2) Roughing
 19:51 - Lightning David Koci (2) Roughing
Carolina Hurricanes
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Cam Ward G 0 0 0 0 0 59:57 47:03 4:55 7:59 0 0 - - - - -
Michael Leighton G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Dennis Seidenberg D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 26 22:04 16:23 1:31 4:10 0 0 - - - - -
Tim Conboy D 0 0 0 E 0 1 14 10:05 8:43 1:22 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Tim Gleason D 0 0 0 +3 2 0 26 18:08 14:09 1:12 2:47 0 0 - - - - -
Niclas Wallin D 0 0 0 +1 0 0 25 16:11 14:12 0:42 1:17 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Cullen C 0 1 1 E 2 1 26 17:21 13:30 1:25 2:26 0 0 - - 4 7 36
Eric Staal C 4 2 6 +4 2 6 24 13:55 11:45 1:10 1:00 0 1 - - 7 9 44
Ray Whitney LW 0 0 0 +1 2 1 21 13:38 12:30 1:08 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Sergei Samsonov LW 0 2 2 E 0 2 20 15:06 13:19 1:47 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Tuomo Ruutu C 2 3 5 +3 0 4 20 14:05 12:17 1:48 0:00 1 0 - - - - -
Rod Brind'Amour C 1 1 2 +1 0 2 26 18:56 13:51 1:35 3:30 1 0 - - 7 9 44
Joni Pitkanen D 0 1 1 E 0 0 25 22:39 18:58 2:23 1:18 0 0 - - - - -
Erik Cole LW 0 4 4 +2 0 1 24 14:50 11:26 1:05 2:19 0 0 - - - - -
Anton Babchuk D 1 0 1 +2 2 2 28 21:42 15:45 2:52 3:05 0 0 - - - - -
Michael Ryan C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 14 9:46 8:24 1:22 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Patrick Eaves RW 0 0 0 E 0 5 23 17:17 13:10 0:49 3:18 0 0 - - 1 0 100
Chad Larose RW 0 1 1 +1 0 3 25 17:07 13:35 0:41 2:51 0 0 - - - - -
Dwight Helminen C 0 0 0 E 0 2 15 10:40 8:44 1:22 0:34 0 0 - - 1 8 11
Joe Corvo D 1 1 2 +3 0 2 24 18:34 14:52 0:21 3:21 0 0 - - - - -
Tampa Bay Lightning
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Mike McKenna G 0 0 0 0 0 29:58 23:50 3:59 2:09 0 0 - - - - -
Karri Ramo G 0 0 0 0 0 29:47 23:01 4:00 2:46 0 0 - - - - -
Lukas Krajicek D 0 0 0 E 0 1 32 21:17 15:22 3:11 2:44 0 0 - - - - -
Vincent Lecavalier C 1 1 2 -1 0 4 22 18:08 12:49 4:47 0:32 0 0 - - 9 8 53
Josef Melichar D 0 0 0 -1 0 2 21 14:48 13:00 0:01 1:47 0 0 - - - - -
Noah Welch D 0 0 0 -2 0 1 28 27:22 23:17 2:55 1:10 0 0 - - - - -
Jeff Halpern C 0 0 0 E 2 0 22 15:50 11:06 3:12 1:32 0 0 - - 5 5 50
Ryan Malone RW 1 1 2 -1 0 3 21 15:43 10:41 4:09 0:53 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Adam Hall RW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 18 11:17 9:13 0:00 2:04 0 0 - - 3 0 100
Vinny Prospal LW 0 2 2 E 0 2 22 17:46 13:54 3:50 0:02 0 0 - - 2 0 100
Cory Murphy D 0 0 0 -3 0 0 22 22:58 18:09 4:47 0:02 0 0 - - - - -
Matt Pettinger C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 24 17:23 13:04 2:55 1:24 0 0 - - - - -
Martin St. Louis RW 1 0 1 -2 0 4 21 20:04 14:53 4:47 0:24 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Matt Smaby D 0 0 0 +1 0 2 25 16:49 13:26 0:17 3:06 0 0 - - - - -
David Koci C 0 0 0 -2 4 0 17 11:59 10:58 0:00 1:01 0 0 - - - - -
Ryan Craig C 0 0 0 -1 0 0 18 11:16 9:29 0:00 1:47 0 0 - - 7 1 88
Paul Szczechura C 0 1 1 E 2 3 17 11:30 10:32 0:00 0:58 0 0 - - - - -
Martins Karsums RW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 16 11:27 11:25 0:00 0:02 0 0 - - - - -
Evgeny Artyukhin RW 0 0 0 -1 4 1 13 10:47 10:30 0:17 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Steven Stamkos C 0 1 1 -3 0 0 20 18:44 13:57 4:47 0:00 0 0 - - 7 4 64
Goaltending
Carolina
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Cam Ward W (39-23-5) 25 22 3 .880 0 59:57
Tampa Bay
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Karri Ramo L (4-10-7) 22 16 6 .727 0 29:47
Mike McKenna 15 12 3 .800 0 29:58