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Tuesday, February 25, 2003 · Mellon Arena

Kings 5 at Penguins 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 99OVR Ziggy Palffy Kings First Star 2G · 2A · 6 SOG C 98OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins Second Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG C 83OVR Bryan Smolinski Senators Third Star 2G · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:02 Martin Straka (16) Mario Lemieux (58), Dick Tarnstrom (31) · Wrist LAK 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 15:23 Mario Lemieux (24) Tomas Surovy (3), Dick Tarnstrom (32) · Wrist LAK 0 – 2 PIT
  3. 17:49 Jaroslav Modry (10) PPG Ziggy Palffy (37), Mathieu Schneider (28) · Snap LAK 1 – 2 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 12:55 Ziggy Palffy (27) Alex Frolov (13) · Backhand LAK 2 – 2 PIT
  2. 16:39 Ziggy Palffy (28) PPG Derek Armstrong (18), Mathieu Schneider (29) · Wrist LAK 3 – 2 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 3:42 Bryan Smolinski (15) Chris Schmidt (1), Eric Belanger (16) · Snap LAK 4 – 2 PIT
  2. 10:15 Mario Lemieux (25) Martin Straka (22) · Wrist LAK 4 – 3 PIT
  3. 10:49 Bryan Smolinski (16) Ziggy Palffy (38), Alex Frolov (14) · Wrist LAK 5 – 3 PIT

Los Angeles Kings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ziggy Palffy R 2 2 6 0 2 +2 23:28 3.45
Bryan Smolinski C 2 0 5 0 0 +3 20:52 2.33
Alex Frolov L 0 2 1 0 0 +2 9:51 1.58
Mathieu Schneider D 0 2 1 1 1 +1 21:22 1.38
Jaroslav Modry D 1 0 4 0 0 -1 20:16 0.90
Chris Schmidt C 0 1 0 1 2 +1 12:50 0.88
Derek Armstrong C 0 1 1 0 0 0 16:25 0.75
Eric Belanger C 0 1 0 1 1 0 20:14 0.68
Dmitry Yushkevich D 0 0 0 0 1 +1 16:32 0.20
Steve Heinze R 0 0 2 0 0 0 14:30 0.15
Ian Laperriere R 0 0 1 0 0 0 8:46 0.08
Aaron Miller D 0 0 1 0 0 0 22:49 0.02
Mattias Norstrom D 0 0 1 1 1 0 21:21 -0.02
Lubomir Visnovsky D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 17:54 -0.08
Erik Rasmussen C 0 0 1 0 1 -2 13:29 -0.18
Brad Norton D 0 0 1 0 0 0 1:46 -0.22
Mikko Eloranta L 0 0 2 0 1 -3 12:05 -0.25
Craig Johnson L 0 0 1 1 0 -3 17:40 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jamie Storr — 8 6 2 .750 15:23 -0.90
Cristobal Huet W 17 16 1 .941 44:20 0.85

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mario Lemieux C 2 1 5 0 0 +2 26:21 2.75
Martin Straka C 1 1 3 0 0 +2 24:19 1.90
Dick Tarnstrom D 0 2 0 0 2 +3 26:42 1.70
Tomas Surovy L 0 1 7 0 1 +2 21:42 1.45
Richard Lintner D 0 0 3 1 0 +3 21:48 0.58
Ian Moran D 0 0 2 0 0 0 7:42 0.15
Randy Robitaille C 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:37 0.08
Jan Hrdina C 0 0 1 0 0 0 13:27 0.08
Rico Fata L 0 0 0 1 1 0 13:08 0.05
Steve McKenna L 0 0 0 0 0 0 8:11 0.00
Hans Jonsson D 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:57 0.00
Kent Manderville C 0 0 1 2 1 -1 11:16 -0.08
Marc Bergevin D 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:55 -0.08
Mikael Samuelsson R 0 0 0 0 1 -1 8:13 -0.10
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 12:16 -0.22
Shean Donovan R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 15:07 -0.45
Shawn Heins D 0 0 0 2 1 -3 19:33 -0.55
Jamie Pushor D 0 0 0 2 1 -3 16:54 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Johan Hedberg L 29 24 5 .828 58:10 -1.35