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Friday, December 20, 2002 · Philips Arena

Hurricanes 3 at Thrashers 2

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 86OVR Jeff O'Neill Hurricanes First Star 1G · 1A · 8 SOG G 80OVR Kevin Weekes Hurricanes Second Star 32 SV · .941 C 82OVR Ron Francis Hurricanes Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:28 Ilya Kovalchuk (18) PPG Vyacheslav Kozlov (18), Yannick Tremblay (5) · Snap CAR 0 – 1 ATL

2nd Period

  1. 17:37 Vyacheslav Kozlov (6) SHG Marc Savard (8) · Slap CAR 0 – 2 ATL

3rd Period

  1. 13:46 Ron Francis (14) Jeff O'Neill (17), Sami Kapanen (8) · Slap CAR 1 – 2 ATL
  2. 19:06 Jeff O'Neill (10) Ron Francis (12), Erik Cole (10) · Backhand CAR 2 – 2 ATL

Overtime

  1. 3:52 Aaron Ward (1) Tomas Malec (2), Bates Battaglia (7) · Slap CAR 3 – 2 ATL

Carolina Hurricanes

Player G A SOG HIT +/- TOI GS
Jeff O'Neill C 1 1 8 0 +2 18:25 2.28
Ron Francis C 1 1 4 0 +1 21:26 1.68
Aaron Ward D 1 0 1 0 +1 18:26 0.98
Erik Cole L 0 1 2 1 +1 18:48 0.93
Tomas Malec D 0 1 0 0 +1 16:22 0.78
Sami Kapanen R 0 1 1 0 0 21:19 0.70
Bates Battaglia L 0 1 0 0 +1 17:07 0.63
Jan Hlavac L 0 0 4 0 +1 17:38 0.45
Kevyn Adams C 0 0 7 0 0 15:14 0.38
Glen Wesley D 0 0 3 0 +1 22:19 0.38
Niclas Wallin D 0 0 2 1 0 22:37 0.15
David Tanabe D 0 0 2 0 0 19:59 0.15
Sean Hill D 0 0 2 2 +1 24:05 0.15
Jeff Daniels L 0 0 1 0 0 5:04 0.08
Jaroslav Svoboda L 0 0 1 0 0 12:16 0.08
Rod Brind'Amour C 0 0 2 0 0 25:41 0.00
Craig Adams R 0 0 0 0 0 5:12 0.00
Jesse Boulerice R 0 0 0 0 0 3:01 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kevin Weekes W 34 32 2 .941 63:35 1.70

Atlanta Thrashers

Player G A SOG HIT +/- TOI GS
Vyacheslav Kozlov L 1 1 2 0 0 20:59 1.53
Yannick Tremblay D 0 1 5 0 0 16:44 1.00
Ilya Kovalchuk L 1 0 6 0 -1 19:40 0.90
Marc Savard C 0 1 0 0 +1 19:07 0.78
Andy Sutton D 0 0 5 0 0 19:46 0.23
Jean-Pierre Vigier R 0 0 3 0 0 15:25 0.22
Mike Weaver D 0 0 1 0 +1 22:52 0.22
Shawn McEachern L 0 0 6 0 -2 19:56 0.15
Brad Tapper R 0 0 1 0 0 9:01 0.08
Tony Hrkac C 0 0 0 0 0 6:38 0.00
Jeff Odgers R 0 0 0 0 0 4:39 0.00
Chris Herperger L 0 0 0 1 -1 16:39 -0.15
Jeff Cowan L 0 0 0 2 0 13:56 -0.15
Pascal Rheaume C 0 0 0 0 -1 11:00 -0.15
Patrik Stefan C 0 0 2 0 -2 19:36 -0.15
Frantisek Kaberle D 0 0 3 0 -3 29:01 -0.22
Daniel Tjarnqvist D 0 0 0 0 -2 27:34 -0.30
Chris Tamer D 0 0 0 0 0 12:22 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Byron Dafoe L 40 37 3 .925 63:52 1.45