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Wednesday, April 2, 2003 · Mellon Arena

Hurricanes 2 at Penguins 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 78OVR Eric Meloche Penguins First Star 2G · 3 SOG C 52OVR Mike Zigomanis Hurricanes Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG RC C 98OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins Third Star 2A · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 13:00 Eric Meloche (4) Guillaume Lefebvre (4), Mario Lemieux (62) · Wrist CAR 0 – 1 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 9:53 Mike Zigomanis (2) SHG Unassisted · Wrist CAR 1 – 1 PIT
  2. 11:45 Craig MacDonald (1) Mike Zigomanis (1), Craig Adams (12) · Wrist CAR 2 – 1 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 16:59 Richard Lintner (3) Martin Straka (27), Tomas Surovy (6) · Backhand CAR 2 – 2 PIT
  2. 19:49 Eric Meloche (5) PPG Mario Lemieux (63), Dick Tarnstrom (33) · Wrist CAR 2 – 3 PIT

Carolina Hurricanes

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike Zigomanis C 1 1 3 0 2 +2 17:42 1.95
Craig MacDonald C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 16:18 1.05
Craig Adams R 0 1 3 5 1 +2 17:14 1.05
David Tanabe D 0 0 1 0 1 +2 16:06 0.43
Sean Hill D 0 0 2 1 1 0 24:33 0.20
Ron Francis C 0 0 4 0 0 -1 18:16 0.15
Jeff Daniels L 0 0 0 0 2 0 11:11 0.10
Jeff O'Neill C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 17:55 0.07
Josef Vasicek C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 20:43 0.05
Tomas Malec D 0 0 0 1 1 0 6:44 0.05
Mike Watt L 0 0 0 1 0 0 6:11 0.00
Niclas Wallin D 0 0 0 1 0 0 12:43 0.00
Bruno St. Jacques D 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:24 0.00
Radim Vrbata R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 16:22 -0.02
Aaron Ward D 0 0 1 2 1 -1 20:19 -0.02
Bret Hedican D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 21:12 -0.15
Brad Defauw L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 12:55 -0.22
Ryan Bayda L 0 0 2 0 1 -1 14:41 -0.25
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Arturs Irbe L 29 26 3 .897 59:49 0.35

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Eric Meloche R 2 0 3 1 2 +1 19:03 1.98
Mario Lemieux C 0 2 6 0 0 0 22:51 1.70
Tomas Surovy L 0 1 5 0 0 +1 12:37 1.20
Richard Lintner D 1 0 2 1 0 +1 12:23 1.05
Guillaume Lefebvre L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 18:52 0.90
Martin Straka C 0 1 2 0 0 0 18:39 0.78
Dick Tarnstrom D 0 1 2 0 0 0 22:43 0.68
Dan Focht D 0 0 1 1 3 +1 18:52 0.43
Shawn Heins D 0 0 0 1 2 +1 17:59 0.25
Jamie Pushor D 0 0 2 2 2 -1 18:35 0.10
Rico Fata L 0 0 0 0 1 0 18:01 0.05
Alexandre Daigle R 0 0 1 0 1 -1 8:41 -0.02
Hans Jonsson D 0 0 1 1 1 +1 18:13 -0.02
Mathias Johansson C 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:18 -0.08
Steve McKenna L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 7:05 -0.08
Kent Manderville C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 9:14 -0.08
Mikael Samuelsson R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 12:43 -0.15
Joel Bouchard D 0 0 0 0 1 -2 21:09 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sebastien Caron W 27 25 2 .926 59:44 1.00