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Thursday, March 7, 2002 · Mellon Arena

Hurricanes 3 at Penguins 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 95OVR Sami Kapanen Hurricanes First Star 3A · 5 SOG C 90OVR Jeff O'Neill Hurricanes Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG C 94OVR Ron Francis Hurricanes Third Star 2G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 3:29 Jan Hrdina (19) PPG Randy Robitaille (9), Alex Kovalev (31) · Wrist CAR 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 9:59 Jeff O'Neill (25) PPG Sami Kapanen (32), Bates Battaglia (20) · Slap CAR 1 – 1 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 6:01 Ron Francis (20) Sami Kapanen (33), Jeff O'Neill (28) · Tip-in CAR 2 – 1 PIT
  2. 13:25 Ron Francis (21) Sami Kapanen (34), Jeff O'Neill (29) · Snap CAR 3 – 1 PIT

Carolina Hurricanes

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Sami Kapanen R 0 3 5 1 0 +2 21:09 2.55
Jeff O'Neill C 1 2 2 2 0 +2 19:55 2.45
Ron Francis C 2 0 2 0 0 +2 22:15 2.00
Bates Battaglia L 0 1 0 1 1 0 22:36 0.63
Sean Hill D 0 0 3 2 1 +2 24:11 0.58
Rod Brind'Amour C 0 0 1 0 2 +1 24:09 0.33
Bret Hedican D 0 0 3 1 1 0 20:18 0.27
Martin Gelinas L 0 0 1 1 0 0 14:31 0.08
Josef Vasicek C 0 0 1 1 0 0 14:36 0.08
Glen Wesley D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 20:05 0.07
Marek Malik D 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:51 0.05
Aaron Ward D 0 0 1 0 2 0 15:49 0.02
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 1:45 0.00
Niclas Wallin D 0 0 0 1 0 0 12:14 0.00
David Tanabe D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3:20 0.00
Jeff Daniels L 0 0 0 1 1 0 13:49 -0.15
Kevyn Adams C 0 0 0 0 0 0 2:45 -0.15
Erik Cole L 0 0 1 0 0 0 18:19 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Arturs Irbe W 16 15 1 .938 60:00 0.75

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alex Kovalev R 0 1 3 1 0 0 28:48 0.85
Randy Robitaille C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 22:57 0.63
Jan Hrdina C 1 0 1 0 1 -1 24:32 0.58
Aleksey Morozov R 0 0 3 2 1 0 21:00 0.22
Andrew Ference D 0 0 0 0 4 0 18:54 0.20
Toby Petersen C 0 0 1 1 0 0 4:25 0.13
Milan Kraft C 0 0 1 0 0 0 13:56 0.08
Kris Beech C 0 0 1 2 0 0 17:46 0.08
Krzysztof Oliwa L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:23 0.00
Eric Meloche R 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:37 0.00
Martin Straka C 0 0 0 0 0 0 5:56 0.00
Hans Jonsson D 0 0 0 2 0 0 17:18 0.00
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 0 5 2 -1 20:04 -0.05
Stephane Richer R 0 0 0 0 1 -1 15:39 -0.10
Dan Lacouture L 0 0 1 0 1 -2 15:55 -0.18
Janne Laukkanen D 0 0 1 3 0 -1 19:09 -0.22
Michal Rozsival D 0 0 1 1 1 -1 20:58 -0.22
Ian Moran D 0 0 1 1 0 -2 15:52 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Johan Hedberg L 21 18 3 .857 58:30 -0.45