The Pussy Cats FEAR #74.
TB-5
FLA-3
Johan Holmqvist [7] allowed 3 goals on 30 shots for the win.
First Period
Florida 0:38, Olli Jokinen 21 (Bryan Allen)
Tampa Bay 10:39, Nick Tarnasky [8] 2 (Craig MacDonald, Mathieu Darche [9])
Second Period
Tampa Bay 2:00, Jan Hlavac 7 (Jason Ward [10], Chris Gratton [11])
Tampa Bay 3:06, Nick Tarnasky 3 (Shane O'Brien [12], Craig MacDonald)
Third Period
Tampa Bay 9:15, Brad Richards [13] 12 (Vaclav Prospal [14], Martin St. Louis [15])
Florida 14:59, David Booth 11 (Jassen Cullimore, Stephen Weiss)
Florida 18:31, Brett McLean 4 (Magnus Johansson, Jay Bouwmeester)
Tampa Bay 19:44, Brad Richards 13 (empty net) (Martin St. Louis)
#74 got out of the press box and popped in 2 goals. THAT is how you respond to being scratched. Very nice. I'm happy for 'nasty.
Mathieu Darche had an assist and was +2 in 11:08 with 1 shot and 2 hits. I think Torts is finally starting to zero in on where the sweet spots are in terms of ice time for the checking liners. It's a shame it took until January to get here.
Box score [16] and extended statistics [17] from NHL.com.