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Saturday, October 11, 2008 · St. Pete Times Forum

Hurricanes 4 at Lightning 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 95OVR Eric Staal Hurricanes First Star 2G · 8 SOG D 93OVR Joni Pitkanen Hurricanes Second Star 2A · 7 SOG C 67OVR Rod Brind'Amour Hurricanes Third Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:20 Mark Recchi (1) Matt Carle (1), Jussi Jokinen (1) · Backhand CAR 0 – 1 TBL
  2. 10:27 Janne Niskala (1) PPG Vinny Prospal (1), Jamie Heward (1) · Snap CAR 0 – 2 TBL

2nd Period

  1. 9:01 Vincent Lecavalier (1) PPG Martin St. Louis (1), Jamie Heward (2) · Slap CAR 0 – 3 TBL
  2. 19:51 Rod Brind'Amour (2) PPG Joni Pitkanen (1), Ray Whitney (1) · Tip-in CAR 1 – 3 TBL

3rd Period

  1. 1:56 Matt Cullen (2) PPG Rod Brind'Amour (1), Joni Pitkanen (2) · Wrist CAR 2 – 3 TBL
  2. 9:56 Eric Staal (1) Dennis Seidenberg (2), Tuomo Ruutu (1) · Wrist CAR 3 – 3 TBL

Overtime

  1. 4:36 Eric Staal (2) Ray Whitney (2) · Wrist CAR 4 – 3 TBL

Carolina Hurricanes

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Eric Staal C 2 0 8 0 0 +2 23:09 2.25
Joni Pitkanen D 0 2 7 3 1 +1 27:02 1.98
Rod Brind'Amour C 1 1 5 0 1 0 20:23 1.80
Ray Whitney L 0 2 0 1 0 +1 18:55 1.35
Matt Cullen C 1 0 5 0 0 0 17:49 1.23
Tuomo Ruutu L 0 1 7 2 0 +1 20:17 1.15
Dennis Seidenberg D 0 1 3 3 4 +1 21:43 1.15
Joe Corvo D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 22:06 0.30
Sergei Samsonov L 0 0 3 0 0 +1 20:15 0.17
Ryan Bayda L 0 0 2 2 0 0 13:36 0.15
Frantisek Kaberle D 0 0 1 0 1 0 20:54 0.13
Tim Gleason D 0 0 2 3 2 -1 21:03 0.10
Chad LaRose R 0 0 1 0 1 0 11:15 0.08
Brandon Sutter C 0 0 0 1 0 -1 11:25 -0.15
Dan Lacouture L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 4:24 -0.15
Wade Brookbank D 0 0 0 0 0 0 2:24 -0.15
Patrick Eaves R 0 0 0 1 0 -1 11:14 -0.20
Niclas Wallin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:57 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Michael Leighton W 29 26 3 .897 64:32 0.35

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jamie Heward D 0 2 0 1 1 0 17:42 1.05
Mark Recchi R 1 0 1 0 0 0 14:11 0.88
Jussi Jokinen L 0 1 2 1 2 0 19:21 0.83
Vincent Lecavalier C 1 0 4 3 1 -1 21:07 0.75
Vinny Prospal L 0 1 1 1 0 0 15:34 0.65
Matt Carle D 0 1 3 0 3 0 30:10 0.65
Martin St. Louis R 0 1 1 0 2 -1 23:18 0.60
Janne Niskala D 1 0 3 0 0 -1 15:17 0.52
Evgeny Artyukhin R 0 0 3 3 0 +1 9:41 0.38
Mike Lundin D 0 0 2 0 3 0 22:37 0.30
Radim Vrbata R 0 0 4 0 0 0 12:25 0.25
Adam Hall R 0 0 1 2 0 0 12:18 0.08
Chris Gratton C 0 0 0 4 0 0 12:54 0.05
Gary Roberts L 0 0 0 0 0 0 8:05 0.00
Steven Stamkos C 0 0 0 1 0 0 6:05 0.00
Lukas Krajicek D 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:26 0.00
Andrej Meszaros D 0 0 2 1 0 -1 27:07 -0.20
Ryan Malone L 0 0 2 3 0 -1 20:13 -0.40
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Smith O 46 42 4 .913 64:11 1.20