2002–03 Tampa Bay Lightning | |
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Southeast Division champions | |
Division | 1st Southeast |
Conference | 3rd Eastern |
2002–03 record | 36–25–16–5 |
Home record | 22–9–7–3 |
Road record | 14–16–9–2 |
Goals for | 219 |
Goals against | 210 |
Team information | |
General manager | Jay Feaster |
Coach | John Tortorella |
Captain | Dave Andreychuk |
Alternate captains |
Vincent Lecavalier Fredrik Modin |
Arena | St. Pete Times Forum |
Average attendance | 16,545 |
Minor league affiliate(s) |
Springfield Falcons Pensacola Ice Pilots |
Team leaders | |
Goals | Vincent Lecavalier and Martin St. Louis (33) |
Assists | Brad Richards and Vaclav Prospal (57) |
Points | Vaclav Prospal (79) |
Penalty minutes | Andre Roy (119) |
Plus/minus | Martin St. Louis (+10) |
Wins | Nikolai Khabibulin (30) |
Goals against average | John Grahame (2.23) |
The 2002–03 Tampa Bay Lightning season was the 11th National Hockey League (NHL) season in Tampa, Florida. The Lightning made it back to the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time since 1996.
No. | CR | GP | W | L | T | OTL | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | 3 | Tampa Bay Lightning | 82 | 36 | 25 | 16 | 5 | 219 | 210 | 93 |
2 | 6 | Washington Capitals | 82 | 39 | 29 | 8 | 6 | 224 | 220 | 92 |
3 | 11 | Atlanta Thrashers | 82 | 31 | 39 | 7 | 5 | 226 | 284 | 74 |
4 | 13 | Florida Panthers | 82 | 24 | 36 | 13 | 9 | 176 | 237 | 70 |
5 | 15 | Carolina Hurricanes | 82 | 22 | 43 | 11 | 6 | 171 | 240 | 61 |
Note: CR = Conference rank; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; OTL = Overtime loss; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points
Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs.
R | Div | GP | W | L | T | OTL | GF | GA | Pts | |
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1 | P- Ottawa Senators | NE | 82 | 52 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 263 | 182 | 113 |
2 | Y- New Jersey Devils | AT | 82 | 46 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 216 | 166 | 108 |
3 | Y- Tampa Bay Lightning | SE | 82 | 36 | 25 | 16 | 5 | 219 | 210 | 93 |
4 | X- Philadelphia Flyers | AT | 82 | 45 | 20 | 13 | 4 | 211 | 166 | 107 |
5 | X- Toronto Maple Leafs | NE | 82 | 44 | 28 | 7 | 3 | 236 | 208 | 98 |
6 | X- Washington Capitals | SE | 82 | 39 | 29 | 8 | 6 | 224 | 220 | 92 |
7 | X- Boston Bruins | NE | 82 | 36 | 31 | 11 | 4 | 245 | 237 | 87 |
8 | X- New York Islanders | AT | 82 | 35 | 34 | 11 | 2 | 224 | 231 | 83 |
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9 | New York Rangers | AT | 82 | 32 | 36 | 10 | 4 | 210 | 231 | 78 |
10 | Montreal Canadiens | NE | 82 | 30 | 35 | 8 | 9 | 206 | 234 | 77 |
11 | Atlanta Thrashers | SE | 82 | 31 | 39 | 7 | 5 | 226 | 284 | 74 |
12 | Buffalo Sabres | NE | 82 | 27 | 37 | 10 | 8 | 190 | 219 | 72 |
13 | Florida Panthers | SE | 82 | 24 | 36 | 13 | 9 | 176 | 237 | 70 |
14 | Pittsburgh Penguins | AT | 82 | 27 | 44 | 6 | 5 | 189 | 255 | 65 |
15 | Carolina Hurricanes | SE | 82 | 22 | 43 | 11 | 6 | 171 | 240 | 61 |
Divisions: AT – Atlantic, NE – Northeast, SE – Southeast
P – Clinched Presidents Trophy; Y – Clinched Division; X – Clinched Playoff spot
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October: 7–1–2–0 (home: 4–0–0–0; road: 3–1–2–0)
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November: 5–6–1–1 (home: 3–3–0–1; road: 2–3–1–0)
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December: 5–6–2–2 (home: 4–2–1–0; road: 1–4–1–2)
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January: 5–6–2–1 (home: 3–1–2–1; road: 2–5–0–0)
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February: 5–3–3–1 (home: 5–2–0–1; road: 0–1–3–0)
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March: 8–1–6–0 (home: 2–0–4–0; road: 6–1–2–0)
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April: 1–2–0–0 (home: 1–1–0–0; road: 0–1–0–0)
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Lightning score listed first;
Win (2 points) Loss (0 points) Tie (1 point) Overtime loss (1 point) |
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Eastern Conference Semifinals vs. New Jersey Devils (2) – Devils wins 4–1
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Lightning score listed first;
Win Loss |
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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No. | Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM |
20 | Vaclav Prospal | C | 80 | 22 | 57 | 79 | 9 | 53 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 6 | −3 | 8 |
4 | Vincent Lecavalier | C | 80 | 33 | 45 | 78 | 0 | 39 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 6 | −2 | 22 |
19 | Brad Richards | C | 80 | 17 | 57 | 74 | 3 | 24 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 5 | −3 | 12 |
26 | Martin St. Louis | RW | 82 | 33 | 37 | 70 | 10 | 32 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 0 |
22 | Dan Boyle | D | 77 | 13 | 40 | 53 | 9 | 44 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 6 |
33 | Fredrik Modin | LW | 76 | 17 | 23 | 40 | 7 | 43 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 18 |
25 | Dave Andreychuk | LW | 72 | 20 | 14 | 34 | −12 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 6 | −1 | 10 |
17 | Ruslan Fedotenko | LW | 76 | 19 | 13 | 32 | −7 | 44 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −6 | 2 |
13 | Pavel Kubina | D | 75 | 3 | 19 | 22 | −7 | 78 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 12 |
7 | Ben Clymer | RW | 65 | 6 | 12 | 18 | −2 | 57 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 2 | −2 | 6 |
36 | Andre Roy | RW | 62 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 119 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
37 | Brad Lukowich | D | 70 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 46 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 |
21 | Cory Sarich | D | 82 | 5 | 9 | 14 | −3 | 63 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
27 | Tim Taylor | C | 82 | 4 | 8 | 12 | −13 | 38 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
16 | Alexander Svitov | C | 63 | 4 | 4 | 8 | −4 | 58 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 6 |
44 | Nolan Pratt | D | 67 | 1 | 7 | 8 | −6 | 35 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 |
28 | Sheldon Keefe | RW | 37 | 2 | 5 | 7 | −1 | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
15 | Nikita Alexeev | RW | 37 | 4 | 2 | 6 | −6 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 0 |
2 | Stan Neckar | D | 70 | 1 | 4 | 5 | −6 | 43 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
5 | Jassen Cullimore | D | 28 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 4 |
11 | Chris Dingman | LW | 51 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −11 | 91 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
35 | Nikolai Khabibulin | G | 65 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
18 | Jimmie Olvestad | LW | 37 | 0 | 3 | 3 | −2 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
23 | Janne Laukkanen† | D | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
9 | Brian Holzinger‡ | C | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
3 | Marc Bergevin† | D | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
47 | John Grahame† | G | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
30 | Kevin Hodson‡ | G | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
1 | Evgeny Konstantinov | G | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
38 | Darren Rumble | D | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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No. | Player | GP | W | L | T | SA | GA | GAA | SV% | SO | TOI | GP | W | L | SA | GA | GAA | SV% | SO | TOI |
35 | Nikolai Khabibulin | 65 | 30 | 22 | 11 | 1760 | 156 | 2.47 | .911 | 4 | 3787 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 299 | 26 | 2.42 | .913 | 0 | 644 |
47 | John Grahame† | 17 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 424 | 34 | 2.23 | .920 | 2 | 914 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 2 | 1.08 | .958 | 0 | 111 |
30 | Kevin Hodson‡ | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 101 | 12 | 2.54 | .881 | 0 | 283 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1 | Evgeny Konstantinov | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3.00 | .833 | 0 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Type | Award/honor | Recipient | Ref |
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League (in-season) |
NHL All-Star Game selection | Nikolai Khabibulin [a] | [5] |
Vincent Lecavalier [b] | |||
Martin St. Louis | |||
NHL Player of the Month | Nikolai Khabibulin (March) | [7] | |
NHL Player of the Week | Nikolai Khabibulin (November 18) | [8] | |
Nikolai Khabibulin (March 3) | [9] | ||
Vaclav Prospal (March 17) | [10] | ||
NHL YoungStars Game selection | Alexander Svitov | [11] |
The Lightning were involved in the following transactions from June 14, 2002, the day after the deciding game of the 2002 Stanley Cup Finals, through June 9, 2003, the day of the deciding game of the 2003 Stanley Cup Finals. [12]
Date | Details | Ref | |
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June 21, 2002 | To Tampa Bay Lightning Ruslan Fedotenko Tampa Bay’s 2nd-round pick in 2002 Phoenix’s 2nd-round pick in 2002 |
To
Philadelphia Flyers 1st-round pick in 2002 |
[13] |
June 22, 2002 | To Tampa Bay Lightning Brad Lukowich 7th-round pick in 2003 |
To
Dallas Stars 2nd-round pick in 2002 |
[14] |
June 22, 2002 | To Tampa Bay Lightning 2nd-round pick in 2002 5th-round pick in 2002 |
To
San Jose Sharks Phoenix’s 2nd-round pick in 2002 |
[15] |
June 23, 2002 | To Tampa Bay Lightning 6th-round pick in 2002 8th-round pick in 2002 Philadelphia’s 8th-round pick in 2002 9th-round pick in 2002 |
To
Carolina Hurricanes 4th-round pick in 2003 |
[16] |
June 23, 2002 | To Tampa Bay Lightning 7th-round pick in 2002 |
To
Ottawa Senators Josef Boumedienne |
[16] |
October 10, 2002 | To Tampa Bay Lightning Boyd Kane |
To
New York Rangers Gordie Dwyer |
[17] |
January 13, 2003 | To Tampa Bay Lightning John Grahame |
To
Boston Bruins 4th-round pick in 2004 |
[18] |
March 11, 2003 | To Tampa Bay Lightning Marc Bergevin |
To
Pittsburgh Penguins Brian Holzinger |
[19] |
May 12, 2003 | To Tampa Bay Lightning 9th-round pick in 2003 |
To Pittsburgh Penguins Marc Bergevin |
[20] |
Date | Player | Former team | Term | Via | Ref |
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September 11, 2002 | Darren Rumble | Worcester IceCats ( AHL) | 1-year | Free agency | [21] |
January 23, 2003 | Corey Foster | Springfield Falcons (AHL) | Free agency | [22] [23] | |
March 11, 2003 | Janne Laukkanen | New York Rangers | Waivers | [24] |
Date | Player | New team | Via [c] | Ref |
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August 5, 2002 | Dieter Kochan | Minnesota Wild | Free agency (VI) | [26] |
N/A | Kyle Kos | Arkansas RiverBlades ( ECHL) | Free agency (UFA) | [27] |
Gaetan Royer | San Antonio Rampage ( AHL) | Free agency (UFA) | [28] | |
October 4, 2002 | Mathieu Biron | Columbus Blue Jackets | Waiver draft | [29] |
October 20, 2002 | Grant Ledyard | Retirement (III) | [30] | |
January 16, 2003 | Kevin Hodson | Retirement | [31] |
Date | Player | Term | Contract type | Ref |
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June 17, 2002 | Alexander Svitov | 3-year | Entry-level | [32] |
June 25, 2002 | Dave Andreychuk | 1-year | Option exercised | [33] |
July 16, 2002 | Fredrik Modin | 1-year | Re-signing | [34] |
July 22, 2002 | Pavel Kubina | multi-year | Re-signing | [35] |
July 26, 2002 | Mathieu Biron | 1-year | Re-signing | [36] |
July 27, 2002 | Shane Willis | 1-year | Re-signing | [37] |
July 30, 2002 | Chris Dingman | multi-year | Re-signing | [38] |
August 1, 2002 | Ben Clymer | 1-year | Re-signing | [39] |
Andre Roy | 1-year | Re-signing | [40] | |
August 6, 2002 | Dan Boyle | 1-year | Re-signing | [41] |
August 7, 2002 | Mike Jones | 1-year | Re-signing | [42] |
August 13, 2002 | Vaclav Prospal | 1-year | Re-signing | [43] |
August 15, 2002 | Gordie Dwyer | 1-year | Re-signing | [44] |
Ruslan Fedotenko | 2-year | Re-signing | [44] | |
May 14, 2003 | Tim Taylor | multi-year | Extension | [45] |
May 30, 2003 | Jean-Francois Soucy | 3-year | Entry-level | [46] |
June 4, 2003 | Eero Somervuori | 1-year | Entry-level | [47] |
Tampa Bay's draft picks at the 2002 NHL Entry Draft held at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario. [48]
Round | # | Player | Nationality | College/Junior/Club team (League) |
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2 | 60 | Adam Henrich | Canada | Brampton Battalion (OHL) |
4 | 100 | Dmitri Kazionov | Russia | CSKA Moscow Jr. (Russia) |
5 | 135 | Joseph Pearce | United States | New Hampshire Jr. Monarchs (EJHL) |
5 | 162 | Gerard Dicaire | Canada | Kootenay Ice (WHL) |
6 | 170 | P. J. Atherton | United States | Cedar Rapids RoughRiders (USHL) |
6 | 174 | Karri Akkanen | Finland | Ilves Jrs. (Finland) |
6 | 183 | Paul Ranger | Canada | Oshawa Generals (OHL) |
7 | 213 | Fredrik Norrena | Finland | TPS (Finland) |
8 | 233 | Vasily Koshechkin | Russia | Lada Togliatti (Russia) |
8 | 255 | Ryan Craig | Canada | Brandon Wheat Kings (WHL) |
8 | 256 | Darren Reid | Canada | Medicine Hat Tigers (WHL) |
9 | 286 | Alexei Glukhov | Russia | Khimik Voskresensk Jr. (Russia) |
9 | 287 | John Toffey | United States | Ohio State University (CCHA) |
MINNESOTA WILD—Signed G Dieter Kochan.