Tampa Bay at Colorado

Bolts Strike Back In Game 2

The cinderella story continues as the Lightning will now head home to TB after earning a very impressive split in Colorado.

After losing Chris Osgood in game 1 thanks to an Eric Lindros hit the Lightning had to count on TFNHL rookie Roman Chechmanek to step in and hopefully play the game of his life. Well he did play great but he didn't see that many shots as the Tampa defense really stepped up their game holding the Av's superstar forwards to 22 shots.

The first period was very quiet for both sides as they once again were just trying to feel eachother out and decide what type of tempo eachother wanted to play, the best scoring chance was a Hedjuk shot that wrang off the cross bar.

Things started rolling in the second period as the Lightning finally were able to outshoot the Av's and it paid off as each team exchanged goals, Cory Cross scored a powerplay goal to give the Bolts a 1-0 lead but Dallas Drake scored with less then 2 minutes left in the middle frame to make it 1-1 entering the 3rd.

The in the 3rd the Av's outshot TB 9-6 but Chechmanek shut the door, 5 minutes into the period Warriner sprung speedy winger Christian Matte down the wing and he cut in sliding the puck between the open pads of Roman Turek. Tampa was then able to hang on for the win. Good news for both side today as Osgood and Lidstrom should play in game 3.

POST GAME COMMENTS:

Denis Gauthier, "Well where was Eric today, all we had to do was play the body and he was held to 1 shot, he isnt' that good, the great players still find ways to score, look at Matte"

Eric Lindros, "Well they played be tough today but that is no excuse there defense is really slow from now on I will try to take them on the outside."

Roman Chechmanek, "I felt the guys played great infront of me all I had to do was make the first save and then the puck was cleared and that is the way us goalies like it."

Christian Matte, "Obvisouly it was a great pass from Todd, as soon I took that pass I just knew I had to get to the net and when I cut across in front of Turek I saw some daylight in the 5 hole, I am just happy we got a win here that is what we came to do."

Shots
123OTT
Tampa Bay 4 8 6 0 18
Colorado 9 4 9 0 22
Goals
123OTT
Tampa Bay 0 1 1 0 2
Colorado 0 1 0 0 1


Scoring Summary


Period 1
NO SCORING

PENALTIES: M. HEJDUK (HIGHSTICKING, Minor), 10:34, A. TANGUAY (HOOKING, Minor), 12:51

Period 2
1. TAMPA BAY, CROSS 2 (O'NEILL, MARA)(PP), 05:14
2. COLORADO, DRAKE 7 (WEIGHT, EMERSON), 18:25

PENALTIES: D. KASPARAITIS (HIGHSTICKING, Minor), 04:17, J. O'NEILL (ROUGHING, Minor, Misconduct), 09:35, M. WATT (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor), 12:08, E. LINDROS (HOOKING, Minor), 12:08

Period 3
3. TAMPA BAY, MATTE 1 (WARRINER, O'NEILL), 05:27

PENALTIES: D. WEIGHT (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor), 03:19, V. KOZLOV (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor), 10:37, J. HALPERN (ROUGHING, Minor), 13:33

Goalie Statistics

Roman Chechmanek (TB ), 21 saves out of 22 shots, W, 2-0-0
Roman Turek (COL), 16 saves out of 18 shots, L, 14-7-0

Power Play Conversions

Tampa Bay 1 for 4
Colorado 0 for 3

Game Stars

1 - Roman Chechmanek (TB )
2 - Cory Cross (TB )
3 - Jeff O'Neill (TB )

Player Statistics

Tampa Bay

               G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  IT
---------------------------------------
C. MATTE       1  0  1  Even   0  1  19
C. CROSS       1  0  1    +1   0  3  17
C. FORBES      0  0  0  Even   0  3  14
A. AUCOIN      0  0  0  Even   0  1  26
C. DRURY       0  0  0  Even   0  1  24
D. HINOTE      0  0  0    -1   0  0   8
J. O'NEILL     0  2  2    +1  12  1  22
B. MUCKALT     0  0  0  Even   0  2  17
S. GUOLLA      0  0  0  Even   0  0   9
K. DANEYKO     0  0  0  Even   0  2  22
J. HALPERN     0  0  0  Even   2  1  12
V. KOZLOV      0  0  0  Even   2  1  19
P. MARA        0  1  1    -1   0  0  19
D. GAUTHIER    0  0  0  Even   0  0  12
I. ULANOV      0  0  0  Even   0  1  21
T. WARRINER    0  1  1  Even   0  1  19
M. WATT        0  0  0  Even   2  0   6
S. KEEFE       0  0  0  Even   0  0  11
   
Colorado

               G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  IT
---------------------------------------
M. STRAKA      0  0  0  Even   0  0   7
D. DRAKE       1  0  1    +1   0  2  13
A. FOOTE       0  0  0  Even   0  2  25
D. WEIGHT      0  1  1  Even   2  0  11
P. POPOVIC     0  0  0  Even   0  1  18
T. BERTUZZI    0  0  0    -1   0  1  18
D. KASPARAITIS 0  0  0    -1   2  1  14
M. SUNDIN      0  0  0    -1   0  0  25
M. HEJDUK      0  0  0  Even   2  4  17
B. BRUNET      0  0  0  Even   0  1   7
E. LINDROS     0  0  0  Even   2  1  29
J. NIINIMAA    0  0  0  Even   0  1  20
T. POTI        0  0  0    +1   0  0  14
N. EMERSON     0  1  1    +1   0  0  10
Z. PALFFY      0  0  0  Even   0  3  26
S. OZOLINSH    0  0  0  Even   0  4  22
T. CONNOLLY    0  0  0  Even   0  0   0
A. TANGUAY     0  0  0  Even   2  1  21
   

Financial

Attendance: 18129
Net Profit: $951,772.00

Game Notes