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Thursday, April 4, 2002 · Nationwide Arena

Predators 1 at Blue Jackets 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 69OVR Espen Knutsen Blue Jackets First Star 2A · 1 SOG G 54OVR Ron Tugnutt Blue Jackets Second Star 20 SV · .952 D 95OVR Kimmo Timonen Predators Third Star 1G · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 13:39 Kimmo Timonen (13) Greg Johnson (24), Vitali Yachmenev (15) · Slap NSH 1 – 0 CBJ

2nd Period

  1. 7:59 Sean Pronger (2) Espen Knutsen (29), Andrej Nedorost (2) · Slap NSH 1 – 1 CBJ

3rd Period

  1. 6:43 Deron Quint (7) Espen Knutsen (30), Mattias Timander (5) · Wrist NSH 1 – 2 CBJ

Nashville Predators

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Kimmo Timonen D 1 0 1 1 3 0 19:30 0.98
Greg Johnson C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 20:09 0.85
Vitali Yachmenev R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 17:12 0.73
Steve Dubinsky R 0 0 4 2 3 -1 18:37 0.30
Andy Delmore D 0 0 2 0 0 0 16:21 0.15
Petr Tenkrat R 0 0 1 1 0 0 13:47 0.08
Scott Hartnell L 0 0 1 2 0 +1 17:34 0.07
Vladimir Orszagh L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 21:39 0.07
Jere Karalahti D 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:37 0.05
Greg Classen C 0 0 1 1 0 -1 17:06 -0.02
Karlis Skrastins D 0 0 1 0 1 -1 18:02 -0.02
Martin Erat R 0 0 1 0 0 0 16:20 -0.03
Cale Hulse D 0 0 1 1 0 0 19:31 -0.08
Bill Houlder D 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:37 -0.20
Denis Arkhipov C 0 0 1 2 0 -1 21:17 -0.28
Reid Simpson L 0 0 1 0 0 0 3:53 -0.30
Mark Eaton D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 13:57 -0.30
Nathan Perrott R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 3:35 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tomas Vokoun L 23 21 2 .913 59:11 0.60

Columbus Blue Jackets

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Espen Knutsen C 0 2 1 0 1 +2 23:42 1.48
Andrej Nedorost L 0 1 1 2 0 +1 10:48 0.85
Deron Quint D 1 0 2 1 1 0 21:05 0.85
Sean Pronger C 1 0 2 2 0 +1 13:41 0.75
Mattias Timander D 0 1 1 1 1 0 23:31 0.60
Mike Sillinger C 0 0 5 1 1 0 25:08 0.48
Jaroslav Spacek D 0 0 2 0 4 0 23:31 0.25
Tyler Wright C 0 0 3 4 0 -1 15:03 0.18
Rostislav Klesla D 0 0 1 0 3 0 22:15 0.18
Ray Whitney L 0 0 2 0 0 0 23:20 0.15
David Vyborny R 0 0 1 1 0 0 12:37 0.13
Chris Nielsen R 0 0 1 1 0 0 7:42 0.13
Matt Davidson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:49 0.00
Grant Marshall R 0 0 0 4 1 -1 10:06 -0.10
Serge Aubin C 0 0 0 2 0 0 8:16 -0.15
Jody Shelley L 0 0 0 1 0 0 4:11 -0.38
Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre D 0 0 1 2 1 +1 16:22 -0.45
Jamie Allison D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 8:23 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ron Tugnutt W 21 20 1 .952 59:52 1.25