Saturday's Highlights:
- Fadden a Second Star
- Multi-point night for Courtnall
- Tough night in net for Jung
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Saturday's Highlights:
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The Reading Royals played spoiler to the return of hockey to the Gulf Coast after a two-year hiatus following the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Royals peppered former Lightning prospect Morgan Cey with 44 shots enroute to a decisive 5-2 victory over the Mississippi Sea Wolves. Lightning prospects have been held off the scoresheet in the Wolves' first three games
Reading 5 @ Mississippi 2
F Marek Kvapil: 0-0-0; Even; 0 PIM; 1 SOG
F Radek Smolenak: 0-0-0; Even; 0 PIM; 1 SOG
F Zbynek Hrdel: 0-0-0; Even; 0 PIM; 2 SOG
We was robbed.
BUF-4
TB-3 (OT)
Johan Holmqvist stopped 22 of 26 in taking the overtime loss. The Lightning were the victims of two controversial calls/non calls in the game.
First Period
NO SCORING
Second Period
Tampa Bay 3:25, Vaclav Prospal 9 (Vincent Lecavalier, Martin St. Louis)
Tampa Bay 4:45, Michel Ouellet 2 (Chris Gratton, Mathieu Darche)
Buffalo 9:30, Maxim Afinogenov 2 (Thomas Vanek, Nathan Paetsch)
Buffalo 14:28, Paul Gaustad 3 (power play) (Tim Connolly, Brian Campbell)
Third Period
Tampa Bay 6:14, Vincent Lecavalier 5 (power play) (Martin St. Louis, Brad Richards)
Buffalo 13:13, Nathan Paetsch 1 (Jason Pominville, Jochen Hecht)
Overtime
Buffalo 4:19, Thomas Vanek 3 (unassisted)
Boutin overtakes Munce on the depth chart???
BRI-1
NOR-2
Jonathan Boutin stopped 33 of 34 shots faced for the win in his first start of the season.
First Period
NO SCORING
Second Period
BRI Colliton, (2) (Comeau), 0:58 (SH)
Third Period
NOR Jones, (3) (Wanvig, Klinkhammer), 0:31
NOR Lawrence, (2) (Taylor, Milley), 0:54
Johan Harju was scoreless in Lulea's 3-2 loss to Djurgardens. Harju started the game on the first line for Lulea along with former NHLer Lubos Bartecko.