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Saturday, March 7, 2009 · St. Pete Times Forum

Hurricanes 9 at Lightning 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 97OVR Eric Staal Hurricanes First Star 4G · 2A · 6 SOG L 82OVR Tuomo Ruutu Hurricanes Second Star 2G · 3A · 4 SOG L 80OVR Erik Cole Hurricanes Third Star 4A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:01 Eric Staal (29) SHG Rod Brind'Amour (25) · Wrist CAR 1 – 0 TBL
  2. 9:40 Eric Staal (30) Erik Cole (12), Tuomo Ruutu (23) · Wrist CAR 2 – 0 TBL
  3. 10:09 Anton Babchuk (9) Joni Pitkanen (22) · Wrist CAR 3 – 0 TBL
  4. 12:43 Martin St. Louis (24) Steven Stamkos (18), Paul Szczechura (3) · Slap CAR 3 – 1 TBL

2nd Period

  1. 2:41 Joe Corvo (12) Erik Cole (13), Eric Staal (25) · Slap CAR 4 – 1 TBL
  2. 3:48 Rod Brind'Amour (9) PPG Sergei Samsonov (25), Matt Cullen (17) · Snap CAR 5 – 1 TBL
  3. 6:03 Tuomo Ruutu (18) PPG Sergei Samsonov (26), Joe Corvo (17) · Backhand CAR 6 – 1 TBL
  4. 12:48 Eric Staal (31) Chad LaRose (11), Tuomo Ruutu (24) · Wrist CAR 7 – 1 TBL
  5. 16:45 Eric Staal (32) Tuomo Ruutu (25), Erik Cole (14) · Tip-in CAR 8 – 1 TBL
  6. 19:33 Tuomo Ruutu (19) Eric Staal (26), Erik Cole (15) · Wrist CAR 9 – 1 TBL

3rd Period

  1. 3:30 Vincent Lecavalier (28) Ryan Malone (15), Vinny Prospal (24) · Wrist CAR 9 – 2 TBL
  2. 9:12 Ryan Malone (23) Vinny Prospal (25), Vincent Lecavalier (34) · Tip-in CAR 9 – 3 TBL

Carolina Hurricanes

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Eric Staal C 4 2 6 0 0 +4 13:55 5.15
Tuomo Ruutu L 2 3 4 1 1 +3 14:05 4.13
Erik Cole L 0 4 1 1 2 +2 14:50 2.98
Joe Corvo D 1 1 2 1 1 +3 18:34 2.03
Rod Brind'Amour C 1 1 2 0 1 +1 18:56 1.68
Sergei Samsonov L 0 2 2 0 0 0 15:06 1.35
Anton Babchuk D 1 0 2 0 3 +2 21:42 1.20
Chad LaRose R 0 1 3 0 0 +1 17:07 1.00
Joni Pitkanen D 0 1 0 1 2 0 22:39 0.73
Matt Cullen C 0 1 1 0 3 0 17:21 0.70
Patrick Eaves R 0 0 5 1 2 0 17:17 0.48
Tim Gleason D 0 0 0 2 2 +3 18:08 0.35
Dwight Helminen C 0 0 2 0 0 0 10:40 0.20
Niclas Wallin D 0 0 0 5 1 +1 16:11 0.20
Dennis Seidenberg D 0 0 3 2 1 -1 22:04 0.12
Ray Whitney L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 13:38 0.07
Michael Ryan C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 9:46 0.05
Tim Conboy D 0 0 1 0 0 0 10:05 0.02
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Cam Ward W 25 22 3 .880 59:57 -0.05

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Vincent Lecavalier C 1 1 4 1 1 -1 18:08 1.63
Ryan Malone L 1 1 3 1 0 -1 15:43 1.45
Vinny Prospal L 0 2 2 0 0 0 17:46 1.35
Martin St. Louis R 1 0 4 0 1 -2 20:04 0.90
Paul Szczechura C 0 1 3 3 1 0 11:30 0.75
Matt Smaby D 0 0 2 3 2 +1 16:49 0.35
Lukas Krajicek D 0 0 1 1 2 0 21:17 0.18
Steven Stamkos C 0 1 0 1 0 -3 18:44 0.13
Josef Melichar D 0 0 2 1 0 -1 14:48 -0.05
Adam Hall R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 11:17 -0.08
Martins Karsums R 0 0 1 0 1 -1 11:27 -0.08
Jeff Halpern C 0 0 0 1 1 0 15:50 -0.10
Ryan Craig C 0 0 0 1 1 -1 11:16 -0.10
Noah Welch D 0 0 1 1 2 -2 27:22 -0.12
Evgeny Artyukhin R 0 0 1 5 0 -1 10:47 -0.22
Matt Pettinger L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 17:23 -0.25
Cory Murphy D 0 0 0 1 2 -3 22:58 -0.40
David Koci L 0 0 0 1 0 -2 11:59 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike McKenna — 15 12 3 .800 29:58 -1.05
Karri Ramo L 22 16 6 .727 29:47 -2.90