Tampa Bay at Colorado

Hedjuk And Av's One Win Away

Well there could be only one game left in the TFNHL season thanks to the Av's doubled up Tampa in the Mile High city. Milan Hedjuk was the star of game 5 just like he has been Colorado's best player all throughout the playoffs.

Hedjuk broke the game open early with an unbelievable unassisted goal he undressed Daneyko and then made Osgood look like Hardy Arstrom. Defensive wars continued until the puck dropped in the 3rd and the teams went end to end.

Tampa tied it at 1-1 and then tied it again at 2-2 on yet another Jeff Oneill goal, but after that it was all Colorado in the last 3 minutes with Tanguay scored the winner and Hedjuk adding the insurance.

Colorado now has a chance to win the cup in Tampa on Wednesday, do or die for the Lightning now, a problem they have faced more then once already in the playoffs.

POST GAME COMMENTS:

Milan Hedjuk, "I just play hockey, somedays I get bounces and other days I don't, hockey is a game of oppurtunity and when you have chances you just have to bury them."

Jeff Oneill,"We aren't gonna roll and die, if we would have done that iin those other series we surely wouldn't have been here look for us to play our best game of the year on Wednesday."

Shots
123OTT
Tampa Bay 5 6 11 0 22
Colorado 9 10 7 0 26
Goals
123OTT
Tampa Bay 0 0 2 0 2
Colorado 1 0 3 0 4


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. COLORADO, HEJDUK 11 (UNASSISTED), 01:33

PENALTIES: P. MARA (BOARDING, Minor), 08:32, A. FOOTE (ELBOWING, Minor), 18:12

Period 2
NO SCORING

PENALTIES: A. FOOTE (BOARDING, Minor), 03:07, J. NIINIMAA (ELBOWING, Minor), 04:55, I. ULANOV (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor), 07:22, C. FORBES (HIGHSTICKING, Double Minor), 09:19

Period 3
2. TAMPA BAY, KOZLOV 8 (DRURY, AUCOIN), 01:09
3. COLORADO, EMERSON 5 (POTI, WEIGHT), 12:23
4. TAMPA BAY, O'NEILL 8 (WARRINER, ULANOV), 17:08
5. COLORADO, TANGUAY 10 (SUNDIN, LINDROS), 17:46
6. COLORADO, HEJDUK 12 (LIDSTROM, BERTUZZI)(PP), 18:38

PENALTIES: D. KASPARAITIS (CHARGING, Minor), 01:56, S. KEEFE (HIGHSTICKING, Minor), 18:03, S. KEEFE (ROUGHING, Minor), 19:03

Goalie Statistics

Chris Osgood (TB ), 22 saves out of 26 shots, L, 12-9-0
Roman Turek (COL), 20 saves out of 22 shots, W, 16-8-0

Power Play Conversions

Tampa Bay 0 for 4
Colorado 1 for 5

Game Stars

1 - Milan Hejduk (COL)
2 - Vyacheslav Kozlov (TB )
3 - Roman Turek (COL)

Player Statistics

Tampa Bay

               G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  IT
---------------------------------------
M. MCINNIS     0  0  0    +1   0  2  16
C. CROSS       0  0  0    -1   0  1  13
B. BOMBARDIR   0  0  0  Even   0  1  18
C. FORBES      0  0  0    -1   4  2  12
A. AUCOIN      0  1  1  Even   0  3  20
C. DRURY       0  1  1    +1   0  2  22
D. HINOTE      0  0  0    -1   0  0   8
J. O'NEILL     1  0  1  Even   0  2  26
B. MUCKALT     0  0  0  Even   0  1  18
S. GUOLLA      0  0  0    -1   0  0   7
K. DANEYKO     0  0  0    +1   0  1  20
J. HALPERN     0  0  0    -1   0  1  11
V. KOZLOV      1  0  1  Even   0  3  20
P. MARA        0  0  0    -1   2  1  17
D. GAUTHIER    0  0  0    -1   0  0  14
I. ULANOV      0  1  1  Even   2  0  17
T. WARRINER    0  1  1  Even   0  2  21
S. KEEFE       0  0  0    -1   4  0  10
   
Colorado

               G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  IT
---------------------------------------
M. STRAKA      0  0  0  Even   0  0   7
D. DRAKE       0  0  0    +1   0  2  12
A. FOOTE       0  0  0  Even   4  1  17
D. WEIGHT      0  1  1    +1   0  2  10
P. POPOVIC     0  0  0  Even   0  0  12
T. BERTUZZI    0  1  1  Even   0  3  19
D. KASPARAITIS 0  0  0    +1   2  0  11
N. LIDSTROM    0  1  1  Even   0  1  26
M. SUNDIN      0  1  1  Even   0  3  27
M. HEJDUK      2  0  2  Even   0  2  17
B. BRUNET      0  0  0  Even   0  1   6
E. LINDROS     0  1  1  Even   0  1  22
J. NIINIMAA    0  0  0  Even   2  1  20
T. POTI        0  1  1    +1   0  2  16
N. EMERSON     1  0  1    +1   0  1  12
Z. PALFFY      0  0  0  Even   0  1  23
S. OZOLINSH    0  0  0  Even   0  3  17
A. TANGUAY     1  0  1  Even   0  2  19
   

Financial

Attendance: 18129
Net Profit: $951,772.00

Game Notes