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Sunday, March 9, 2008 · Nationwide Arena

Lightning 3 at Blue Jackets 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 95OVR Rick Nash Blue Jackets First Star 2A · 6 SOG R 90OVR Nikolay Zherdev Blue Jackets Second Star 2A · 2 SOG C 83OVR Jeff Halpern Lightning Third Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 11:29 David Vyborny (6) Rick Nash (22), Kris Russell (6) · Wrist TBL 0 – 1 CBJ
  2. 14:14 Jeff Halpern (13) Mathieu Darche (10), Michel Ouellet (16) · Wrist TBL 1 – 1 CBJ
  3. 19:18 Derek MacKenzie (1) Gilbert Brule (6), Dan Fritsche (10) · Wrist TBL 1 – 2 CBJ

2nd Period

  1. 11:29 Michael Peca (5) Nikolay Zherdev (32) · Snap TBL 1 – 3 CBJ
  2. 16:35 Martin St. Louis (22) Jeff Halpern (17) · Slap TBL 2 – 3 CBJ
  3. 17:37 Vincent Lecavalier (33) Unassisted · Backhand TBL 3 – 3 CBJ

3rd Period

  1. 16:16 Jason Chimera (14) PPG Nikolay Zherdev (33), Dick Tarnstrom (10) · Slap TBL 3 – 4 CBJ
  2. 19:00 Jiri Novotny (8) Manny Malhotra (15), Rick Nash (23) · Wrist TBL 3 – 5 CBJ

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jeff Halpern C 1 1 1 1 0 +1 19:40 1.40
Mathieu Darche L 0 1 3 1 0 +2 19:26 1.15
Michel Ouellet R 0 1 1 1 0 0 16:42 0.70
Vincent Lecavalier C 1 0 5 0 1 -3 20:42 0.63
Andreas Karlsson C 0 0 2 1 5 0 15:35 0.40
Martin St. Louis R 1 0 1 0 0 -3 22:21 0.38
Dan Boyle D 0 0 1 0 2 0 28:16 0.28
Filip Kuba D 0 0 3 1 3 -1 25:31 0.23
Paul Ranger D 0 0 1 0 2 0 23:57 0.18
Craig MacDonald C 0 0 1 2 1 0 14:36 0.13
Alexandre Picard D 0 0 2 1 2 -1 20:36 0.10
Nick Tarnasky L 0 0 1 1 0 0 12:15 0.08
Junior Lessard R 0 0 2 4 0 0 10:26 0.05
Jason Ward R 0 0 0 0 0 0 6:43 0.00
Mike Lundin D 0 0 0 0 1 -1 11:18 -0.10
Karl Stewart L 0 0 0 1 1 -1 4:33 -0.15
Jussi Jokinen L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 10:30 -0.20
Shane O'Brien D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 10:22 -0.97
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Smith L 24 20 4 .833 59:30 -1.00

Columbus Blue Jackets

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rick Nash L 0 2 6 1 0 +2 20:40 1.80
Nikolay Zherdev R 0 2 2 0 1 0 18:47 1.40
David Vyborny R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 13:23 1.05
Jiri Novotny C 1 0 1 2 1 +2 17:16 1.03
Manny Malhotra C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 15:30 0.93
Michael Peca C 1 0 1 0 0 0 21:35 0.83
Rostislav Klesla D 0 0 0 2 2 +4 25:00 0.80
Gilbert Brule C 0 1 1 1 0 0 8:09 0.70
Dan Fritsche C 0 1 0 0 0 0 5:21 0.63
Kris Russell D 0 1 0 3 0 0 11:56 0.63
Derek MacKenzie C 1 0 2 1 0 0 6:53 0.60
Jan Hejda D 0 0 2 2 2 +3 22:55 0.60
Dick Tarnstrom D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 18:53 0.35
Jason Chimera L 1 0 1 1 0 0 17:39 0.07
Andrew Murray C 0 0 0 3 0 0 10:56 0.00
Jared Boll R 0 0 1 2 0 0 9:40 -0.08
Aaron Rome D 0 0 1 1 0 -1 16:55 -0.08
Ron Hainsey D 0 0 2 2 0 -1 24:35 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Pascal Leclaire W 27 24 3 .889 59:57 0.15