Carolina at Atlanta

Shots

	1	2	3	OT	T
Carolina	11	18	5	0	34
Atlanta	11	7	7	0	25

Goals

	1	2	3	OT	T
Carolina	1	2	0	0	3
Atlanta	3	1	2	0	6

Scoring Summary

Period 1
1. ATLANTA, KOZLOV 2 (ENSTROM, KLEE), 01:37
2. ATLANTA, KOVALCHUK 6 (THORBURN, HOLIK), 02:15
3. ATLANTA, KOVALCHUK 7 (ZHITNIK, HOSSA), 12:23
4. CAROLINA, CULLEN 2 (STILLMAN, TANABE) (PP), 15:43

PENALTIES: S. GONCHAR Car (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 03:35, D. TANABE Car (HOOKING, Minor) 06:49, K. LEHTONEN Atl (ROUGHING, Minor) 06:49 (Served by Steve Rucchin), C. THORBURN Atl (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 13:28, A. ZHITNIK Atl (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 13:50

Period 2
5. CAROLINA, CULLEN 3 (KUNITZ, WALKER) (PP), 06:35
6. CAROLINA, STILLMAN 5 (LAROSE, TANABE), 09:24
7. ATLANTA, WHITE 7 (HOSSA, KOVALCHUK), 10:44

PENALTIES: I. KOVALCHUK Atl (HOOKING, Minor) 05:15, B. LARSEN Atl (CHARGING, Minor) 06:08, G. EXELBY Atl (ELBOWING, Major) 14:08, T. WHITE Atl (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 15:34

Period 3
8. ATLANTA, KOZLOV 3 (RUCCHIN, MCCARTHY), 08:33
9. ATLANTA, KOVALCHUK 8 (LARSEN, DUPUIS), 17:40

PENALTIES: G. EXELBY Atl (ROUGHING, Minor) 01:47, I. KOVALCHUK Atl (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 12:32

Goalie Statistics

Evgeni Nabokov (Car), 15 saves out of 20 shots, L, 4-4-3
John Grahame (Car), 4 saves out of 5 shots
Kari Lehtonen (Atl), 31 saves out of 34 shots, W, 7-3-1

Power Play Conversions

Carolina 2 for 8
Atlanta 0 for 1

Game Stars

1 - Ilya Kovalchuk (Atl)
2 - Vyacheslav Kozlov (Atl)
3 - Matt Cullen (Car)

Player Statistics

Carolina

G A P +/- PIM S HT IT -------------------------------------------------- Steve Bernier 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 11 Bret Hedican 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 22 Cory Stillman 1 1 2 -1 0 1 0 15 Craig Adams 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 8 David Tanabe 0 2 2 -1 2 0 2 19 Sergei Gonchar 0 0 0 -2 2 1 3 25 Daniel Briere 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 25 Frantisek Kaberle 0 0 0 -2 0 5 1 17 Glen Wesley 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 9 Justin Williams 0 0 0 Even 0 0 4 16 Scott Walker 0 1 1 -2 0 2 5 22 Matt Cullen 2 0 2 -2 0 5 2 26 Mike Commodore 0 0 0 Even 0 4 3 24 Niclas Wallin 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 5 Ray Whitney 0 0 0 Even 0 2 0 16 Chris Kunitz 0 1 1 -2 0 3 3 24 Cory Larose 0 1 1 -1 0 1 0 8 Scottie Upshall 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 5

Atlanta

G A P +/- PIM S HT IT -------------------------------------------------- Todd White 1 0 1 +2 2 2 0 21 Bobby Holik 0 1 1 +1 0 1 2 15 Brad Larsen 0 1 1 Even 2 1 0 14 Steve Rucchin 0 1 1 +1 0 2 0 15 Eric Boulton 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 1 Garnet Exelby 0 0 0 +1 7 1 3 21 Ilya Kovalchuk 3 1 4 +4 4 3 1 25 Tobias Enstrom 0 1 1 +2 0 5 3 21 Steve McCarthy 0 1 1 +2 0 1 0 18 Jim Slater 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 0 Pascal Dupuis 0 1 1 +3 0 0 1 13 Marian Hossa 0 2 2 +1 0 1 3 20 Niclas Havelid 0 0 0 +1 0 2 2 16 Chris Thorburn 0 1 1 +1 2 1 0 11 Alexei Zhitnik 0 1 1 +1 2 1 1 22 Vyacheslav Kozlov 2 0 2 +2 0 3 2 21 Ken Klee 0 1 1 +3 0 1 6 24 Eric Perrin 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 4

Financial

Attendance: 16492
Net Profit: $1,583,232.00

Game Notes

John Grahame enters game at 08:33 of 3rd period
Ilya Kovalchuk scores a hat trick

Minor League Box Score

Lowell         5
Chicago        6
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Ryan Bayda 3 (Andrew Hutchinson, unknown)
unknown (Anton Babchuk, Jeff Heerema)
Ryan Bayda 4 (unknown, Keith Aucoin)
Steve Halko 2 (David Gove, Nick Tselios)
Ryan Bayda 5 (Wade Brookbank, unknown)

Karel Pilar 2 (Alexandre Giroux, Jesse Schultz)
Jason Krog 3 (Ben Simon, unknown)
Alexandre Giroux 4 (Joel Kwiatkowski, Milan Bartovic)
Alexandre Giroux 5 (Mark Popovic, Per Svartvadet)
Ben Simon 4 (unknown, unknown)
Jason Krog 4 (Darren Haydar, unknown)

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Goalies
Lowell: Michael Leighton
Chicago: Michael Garnett
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