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Friday, December 6, 2002 · MCI Center

Thrashers 6 at Capitals 7

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 92OVR Robert Lang Capitals First Star 1G · 3A · 5 SOG L 94OVR Ilya Kovalchuk Thrashers Second Star 3G · 1A · 9 SOG R 87OVR Peter Bondra Capitals Third Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:29 Dany Heatley (8) Ilya Kovalchuk (7) · Backhand ATL 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 16:29 Peter Bondra (9) Robert Lang (15), Brian Sutherby (1) · Wrist ATL 1 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 1:53 Peter Bondra (10) PPG Michael Nylander (20), Robert Lang (16) · Snap ATL 1 – 2 WSH
  2. 4:03 Ilya Kovalchuk (15) PPG Unassisted · Wrist ATL 2 – 2 WSH
  3. 5:30 Frantisek Kaberle (3) Shawn McEachern (11), Mark Hartigan (1) · Slap ATL 3 – 2 WSH
  4. 6:51 Ilya Kovalchuk (16) Dany Heatley (20), Andy Sutton (5) · Tip-in ATL 4 – 2 WSH
  5. 8:58 Jaromir Jagr (14) SHG Kip Miller (13) · Backhand ATL 4 – 3 WSH
  6. 15:03 Ilya Kovalchuk (17) Andy Sutton (6) · Wrist ATL 5 – 3 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 6:38 Robert Lang (8) Peter Bondra (8), Jason Doig (2) · Wrist ATL 5 – 4 WSH
  2. 7:52 Andy Sutton (2) PPG Dany Heatley (21), Frantisek Kaberle (8) · Slap ATL 6 – 4 WSH
  3. 17:54 Calle Johansson (2) Steve Konowalchuk (6), Mike Grier (3) · Slap ATL 6 – 5 WSH
  4. 19:32 Steve Konowalchuk (5) Robert Lang (17), Mike Grier (4) · Wrist ATL 6 – 6 WSH

Overtime

  1. 2:24 Michael Nylander (7) Sergei Gonchar (18), Jaromir Jagr (14) · Snap ATL 6 – 7 WSH

Atlanta Thrashers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ilya Kovalchuk L 3 1 9 0 0 0 19:35 3.40
Dany Heatley L 1 2 2 0 0 0 19:37 2.15
Andy Sutton D 1 2 1 1 0 -2 19:48 1.63
Frantisek Kaberle D 1 1 2 0 0 -2 21:14 1.23
Mark Hartigan C 0 1 0 0 0 0 3:17 0.63
Patrik Stefan C 0 0 0 0 0 +2 16:33 0.30
Shawn McEachern L 0 1 3 0 0 -3 22:56 0.25
Chris Herperger L 0 0 2 0 0 0 15:32 0.15
Chris Tamer D 0 0 1 0 0 0 11:36 0.08
Daniel Tjarnqvist D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 23:42 0.07
Vyacheslav Kozlov L 0 0 4 0 0 -2 22:21 0.00
Jeff Odgers R 0 0 0 0 0 0 7:08 0.00
Per Svartvadet C 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:23 0.00
Yannick Tremblay D 0 0 2 0 0 0 20:23 0.00
Mike Weaver D 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:44 0.00
Pascal Rheaume C 0 0 6 0 0 -2 16:27 -0.23
Tony Hrkac C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 16:20 -0.45
Jeff Cowan L 0 0 1 1 0 0 8:23 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Byron Dafoe L 30 23 7 .767 62:24 -2.95

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Robert Lang C 1 3 5 0 0 +3 20:27 3.45
Peter Bondra R 2 1 3 0 0 +2 25:16 2.50
Jaromir Jagr R 1 1 6 0 0 0 24:53 1.83
Mike Grier R 0 2 3 1 0 +1 16:41 1.63
Michael Nylander C 1 1 4 0 0 0 25:06 1.53
Steve Konowalchuk L 1 1 3 0 0 0 14:01 1.45
Sergei Gonchar D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 31:27 1.00
Kip Miller C 0 1 0 0 0 +2 13:33 0.93
Jason Doig D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 14:14 0.78
Calle Johansson D 1 0 1 0 0 0 20:42 0.68
Brian Sutherby C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 10:10 0.63
Glen Metropolit C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 6:53 0.15
Jeff Halpern C 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:58 0.08
Ken Klee D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 19:38 0.07
Colin Forbes L 0 0 0 0 0 0 5:37 0.00
Ivan Ciernik L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 9:31 -0.30
Brendan Witt D 0 0 0 1 0 0 18:28 -0.38
Rick Berry D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 8:05 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Craig Billington W 34 28 6 .824 61:23 -1.70