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Wednesday, October 16, 2002 · Mellon Arena

Thrashers 2 at Penguins 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 98OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins First Star 3A · 9 SOG C 72OVR Randy Robitaille Islanders Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG R 95OVR Alex Kovalev Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 14:37 Aleksey Morozov (5) Mario Lemieux (4), Alex Kovalev (5) · Backhand ATL 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 19:21 Alex Kovalev (1) Mario Lemieux (5), Randy Robitaille (1) · Wrist ATL 0 – 2 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 13:20 Randy Robitaille (2) PPG Mario Lemieux (6), Dick Tarnstrom (3) · Wrist ATL 0 – 3 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 7:19 Ilya Kovalchuk (2) PPG Vyacheslav Kozlov (3), Dany Heatley (3) · Wrist ATL 1 – 3 PIT
  2. 14:44 Dany Heatley (1) SHG Patrik Stefan (2) · Backhand ATL 2 – 3 PIT

Atlanta Thrashers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dany Heatley L 1 1 3 0 0 +1 19:53 1.75
Ilya Kovalchuk L 1 0 5 0 0 0 20:29 1.13
Patrik Stefan C 0 1 4 0 0 -1 15:01 0.78
Vyacheslav Kozlov L 0 1 3 0 0 -2 19:42 0.55
Yannick Tremblay D 0 0 6 0 0 0 26:36 0.45
Frantisek Kaberle D 0 0 3 0 0 0 19:12 0.22
Jeff Cowan L 0 0 2 0 0 0 5:33 0.15
Shawn McEachern L 0 0 2 0 0 0 19:27 0.15
Tomi Kallio R 0 0 1 0 0 0 11:58 0.08
Pascal Rheaume C 0 0 1 0 0 0 12:11 0.08
Yuri Butsayev L 0 0 0 0 0 0 9:14 0.00
Tony Hrkac C 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:27 0.00
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 1 0 0 0 21:06 -0.08
Lubos Bartecko L 0 0 0 1 0 -1 8:37 -0.15
Dan Snyder C 0 0 0 0 0 0 8:36 -0.15
Kirill Safronov D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 13:24 -0.15
Daniel Tjarnqvist D 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:50 -0.15
Andy Sutton D 0 0 1 1 0 -1 10:55 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Milan Hnilicka L 38 35 3 .921 58:52 1.25

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mario Lemieux C 0 3 9 0 0 +2 23:44 2.85
Randy Robitaille C 1 1 4 0 0 +1 19:35 1.83
Alex Kovalev R 1 1 5 0 0 +1 24:50 1.75
Aleksey Morozov R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 5:09 0.98
Dick Tarnstrom D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 21:09 0.85
Ian Moran D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 17:33 0.22
Ville Nieminen L 0 0 2 0 0 0 16:07 0.15
Dan Lacouture L 0 0 2 1 0 0 11:20 0.15
Jamie Pushor D 0 0 1 1 0 0 15:06 0.08
Marc Bergevin D 0 0 1 0 0 0 19:21 0.08
Alexandre Daigle R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 15:45 0.07
Michal Rozsival D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 22:10 0.07
Kent Manderville C 0 0 0 0 0 0 9:01 0.00
Jan Hrdina C 0 0 2 0 0 +1 17:30 0.00
Hans Jonsson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:51 0.00
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 18:25 -0.08
Shean Donovan R 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:59 -0.30
Steve McKenna L 0 0 0 1 0 -1 5:03 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Johan Hedberg W 34 32 2 .941 60:00 1.70