Tampa Bay at Colorado

Osgood Sidelined As Bolts Buried By Avalanche

Well they have been down before and have found ways to comeback but this time they have another roadblock in their way, the Lightning lost their starting goalie and conn-smythe candidate Chris Osgood, he is currently out day-to-day with a sprain neck after being ran over in the crease by Eric Lindros.

The Lightning fell behind early in this game and were down 2-0 just after the 10 minute mark of the 1st. Then only 6 seconds after the Av's second goal the puck was dumped in and Osgood stepped out to play it and as he was returning to his crease he met up with the Big "E", it was lights out for Osgood as he was cranked back onto the ice and what looked like whiplash turned out to be a sprained neck, the Bolts went crazy wanting a penalty but no call was made and after that the Lightning lost all composure.

Bertuzzi and Lindros each scored in the second giving the Av's a comfortable 4-0 lead entering the 3rd. They didn't let up at all as Nelson Emerson scored 2 in the 3rd before the Lightning could even get on the board thanks to a Jeff Halpern goal the shutout was broken, however the game was still not over as the Av's scored yet another and crusied to a 7-1 game 1 victory.

Post: Game Comments:

Eric Lindros Commenting On The Osgood Hit, "Well if you ask me he wasn't back in the crease yet, and if thats the case then I say he was fair play and I did nothing wrong, we have one of our top players out right now in Lidstrom so I guess they will have to deal with this injury."

Daneyko Responding To Lindros, "He thinks he can go anywhere out on the ice and do whatever he wants, me and Den(gauthier)and Ulanov are surely going to be looking for him with his head down next game, I know we can shut him down, just ask Sakic,Bure,Leclair,Jagr and Yzerman if they liked playing against us."

Osgood, "Well me neck is a little stiff right now and I feel stress when I look to the right, hopefully I will be back for game 3 if not I have confidence in the guyz and I am certain that Chech can get it done in goal." Ulanov, who has a long time rivalry with Lindros "Well I have caught him with his head down before and I promise you I will do it again, he isn't a smart player when he heads up ice and it will cost him."
Shots
123OTT
Tampa Bay 3 9 6 0 18
Colorado 7 10 15 0 32
Goals
123OTT
Tampa Bay 0 0 1 0 1
Colorado 2 2 3 0 7


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. COLORADO, OZOLINSH 3 (LINDROS, PALFFY), 03:37
2. COLORADO, SUNDIN 5 (HEJDUK, BERTUZZI), 10:37

PENALTIES: S. KEEFE (ELBOWING, Minor), 12:00, J. O'NEILL (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor), 13:58

Period 2
3. COLORADO, BERTUZZI 7 (NIINIMAA, SUNDIN), 02:12
4. COLORADO, LINDROS 6 (DRAKE, WEIGHT), 12:57

PENALTIES: A. TANGUAY (ELBOWING, Minor), 18:52, D. HINOTE (HOOKING, Minor), 19:19

Period 3
5. COLORADO, EMERSON 3 (POTI, WEIGHT), 01:35
6. COLORADO, EMERSON 4 (WEIGHT, DRAKE), 08:56
7. TAMPA BAY, HALPERN 3 (MARA, WARRINER), 10:47
8. COLORADO, DRAKE 6 (POPOVIC, WEIGHT), 17:33

PENALTIES: A. AUCOIN (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor), 06:43, Z. PALFFY (ROUGHING, Minor), 06:43

Goalie Statistics

Roman Chechmanek (TB ), 23 saves out of 28 shots
Chris Osgood (TB ), 2 saves out of 4 shots, L, 11-7-0
Roman Turek (COL), 17 saves out of 18 shots, W, 14-6-0

Power Play Conversions

Tampa Bay 0 for 1
Colorado 0 for 3

Game Stars

1 - Dallas Drake (COL)
2 - Doug Weight (COL)
3 - Nelson Emerson (COL)

Player Statistics

Tampa Bay

               G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  IT
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C. MATTE       0  0  0  Even   0  0   1
C. CROSS       0  0  0    -3   0  1  18
C. FORBES      0  0  0    -2   0  3  13
A. AUCOIN      0  0  0    -3   2  0  26
C. DRURY       0  0  0    -1   0  0  23
D. HINOTE      0  0  0    -3   2  2  18
J. O'NEILL     0  0  0    -2   2  1  22
S. GUOLLA      0  0  0    -1   0  1  19
K. DANEYKO     0  0  0    -2   0  2  21
J. HALPERN     1  0  1    -3   0  1  22
V. KOZLOV      0  0  0    -3   0  1  20
P. MARA        0  1  1    -1   0  2  21
D. GAUTHIER    0  0  0    -2   0  0  13
I. ULANOV      0  0  0    -1   0  1  20
T. WARRINER    0  1  1    -1   0  3  21
M. WATT        0  0  0  Even   0  0   0
S. KEEFE       0  0  0    -2   2  0  11
A. MAIR        0  0  0  Even   0  0   6
   
Colorado

               G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  IT
---------------------------------------
M. STRAKA      0  0  0  Even   0  0   7
D. DRAKE       1  2  3    +4   0  4  13
A. FOOTE       0  0  0    +1   0  1  25
D. WEIGHT      0  4  4    +4   0  2  13
P. POPOVIC     0  1  1    +4   0  1  22
T. BERTUZZI    1  1  2    +1   0  4  19
D. KASPARAITIS 0  0  0    +1   0  0   4
M. SUNDIN      1  1  2    +1   0  6  24
M. HEJDUK      0  1  1    +1   0  2  19
B. BRUNET      0  0  0  Even   0  1   7
E. LINDROS     1  1  2    +3   0  3  30
J. NIINIMAA    0  1  1    +1   0  0  20
T. POTI        0  1  1    +2   0  0  16
N. EMERSON     2  0  2    +4   0  2  13
Z. PALFFY      0  1  1    +1   2  2  24
S. OZOLINSH    1  0  1    +1   0  2  23
T. CONNOLLY    0  0  0  Even   0  0   0
A. TANGUAY     0  0  0    +1   2  2  21
   

Financial

Attendance: 18129
Net Profit: $951,772.00

Game Notes

Roman Chechmanek enters game at 10:43 of 1st period
Chris Osgood injured at 10:43 of 1st Period
Darius Kasparaitis injured at 11:27 of 1st Period