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2003 NHL All-Star Game
123OT Total
West 3111 6
East 2210 5
DateFebruary 2, 2003
ArenaOffice Depot Center
CitySunrise
MVPDany Heatley (Atlanta)
Attendance19,250
← 2002 2004 →

The 2003 National Hockey League All-Star Game took place on February 2, 2003, at Office Depot Center in Sunrise, the home of the Florida Panthers. It was the first All-Star Game since the 1997 All-Star Game to use the Eastern ConferenceWestern Conference format.

All-Star weekend

NHL YoungStars Game

The All-Star festivities began on February 1 with the YoungStars Game, pitting the best rookies on League rosters against each other. Months ago, it was decided that the assistant coaches of the team with the best points percentages in their respective conferences through the games of Wednesday, January 8, were selected as coaches for the Eastern Conference and Western Conference YoungStars, respectively. The YoungStars players were selected by the NHL's Hockey Operations Department, in consultation with League general managers.

The game's format changed from the previous season as it will be played using five skaters and one goaltender per team. The duration of the game will consist of three 20-minute periods, running time with three-minute stops after goals with a 20-minute break between periods. If the score is tied after three periods, a sudden-death shootout will determine the winner.

The Washington Capitals' Brian Sutherby won the Most Valuable Player for the Eastern Conference YoungStars by scoring two goals and an assist as the East cruised to an easy 8–3 victory. Hometown favourite Stephen Weiss also scored a goal and an assist for the East to thrill the Panthers fans in attendance.

Super Skills Competition

A traditional event followed the YoungStars game, with the NHL Skills Competition. The Western Conference won the competition 15–9, made memorable by hard-shooting defenseman Al MacInnis of the St. Louis Blues winning his seventh Hardest Shot event, and Colorado Avalanche's Patrick Roy allowed only a single goal through both of the Goaltending Competitions.

Individual Event winners

The game

On Sunday, February 2, the actual All-Star Game began. The Eastern Conference was forced to name five injury replacements to their roster, as Ed Belfour, Brian Leetch, Mario Lemieux, Saku Koivu and Mats Sundin were all out with injury. The Atlanta Thrashers' Dany Heatley opened the scoring for the Eastern Conference by scoring past Colorado Avalanche's Patrick Roy just five and a half minutes into the first period.

Colorado's Peter Forsberg and Dallas Stars' Mike Modano scored the next two goals to give the Western Conference a 2–1 lead. However, Heatley would score his second consecutive goal on Roy, tapping in a rebound of a shot by Washington Capitals' Jaromir Jagr to tie the score at 2, a bit more than halfway through the first period. Five minutes later, Minnesota Wild's Marian Gaborik scored by banging in Los Angeles Kings' Mathieu Schneider's rebound past Tampa Bay Lightning's Nikolai Khabibulin to restore the Western lead at 3–2, which remained at the end of the first period. Goaltenders Roy and Khabibulin would then be replaced by Chicago Blackhawks' Jocelyn Thibault and New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur for the West and the East, respectively.

The change of goaltenders made little difference for Heatley, as he finished his hat trick with a wrist shot past Thibault to tie the game at 3. For the third consecutive time, the West replied when Vancouver Canucks' Ed Jovanovski caught a deflection off the skate of Washington Capitals' Sergei Gonchar. Heatley then scored his fourth goal of the game by converting a pass from hometown hero Florida Panthers' Olli Jokinen and shooting it over Thibault's glove. Heatley's four goals in an All-Star game tied the previous records of Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Vincent Damphousse and Mike Gartner. He also became the first player in All-Star history to score four goals with no one else scoring in between them.

No more goals were scored in the second period, and Ottawa Senators' Patrick Lalime came in to play goal for the Eastern Conference, while Dallas Stars' Marty Turco came in for the West. St. Louis Blues' Al MacInnis scored past Lalime's glove to give the West a 5–4 lead, a minute and a half into the third period.

Jokinen tied the game by taking a pass from Jaromir Jagr and skating in on a partial breakaway and putting a hard wrist shot past Turco to tie the game at 5. With ten minutes left in regulation, neither team were able to score on the two goaltender. The third period ended in a 5–5 tie and the winner of the 53rd NHL All-Star Game would have to be decided in overtime for the first time since 1988.

Patrick Lalime and Marty Turco remained in goal for the overtime, and preserved a scoreless extra period. For the first time in history, an NHL All-Star Game would be settled in a shootout. The Vancouver Canucks' Markus Naslund, Dallas Stars' Bill Guerin and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim's Paul Kariya would score against Lalime for the Western Conference. On the other side, Turco only let in one goal in the shootout, which was scored by Dany Heatley. (Heatley's shootout goal did not count towards his regulation total of four, leaving him tied for the record.) The Western Conference won the game with a 6–5 shootout victory. Heatley, with a total of five points, was named All-Star MVP.

Uniforms

The NHL carried over the uniform design from the previous All-Star Game. Since the uniforms introduced the year before used the colors of the conference logos, the Western Conference used the same blue jersey worn by the 2002 North American team. However, due to the contrast issues from the 2002 game, the burgundy jersey worn by the World team was replaced with a white version worn by the Eastern Conference team. Both uniforms continued to feature black as the primary trim color, with silver and white accents. The player names and numbers on the back of the Western team's uniforms were rendered in black, however, leaving the uniforms completely devoid of the conference's burgundy color. Both teams continued to wear flag patches representing each player's homeland on the left shoulder. This would be the last use of national flags on the All-Star uniforms to date.

Summary

Eastern Conference Western Conference
Final score 5 6 (SO)
Scoring summary
  • Heatley (Hamrlik) 5:39 first
  • Heatley (2) (Jagr, Jokinen) 10:26 first
  • Heatley (3) (Jokinen) 2:47 second
  • Heatley (4) (Jokinen, Jagr) 13:58 second
  • Jokinen (Jagr, Heatley) 9:38 third
  • Forsberg (Naslund, Lidstrom) 7:14 first
  • Modano (Whitney, Schneider) 8:58 first
  • Gaborik (Schneider, Fedorov) 15:55 first
  • Jovanovski (Iginla, Gaborik) 12:12 second
  • MacInnis (Fedorov, Gaborik) 1:26 third
Shootout
  • Kovalev - missed
  • Heatley - scored
  • Satan - missed
  • Jokinen - missed
  • Fedorov - missed
  • Naslund - scored
  • Guerin - scored
  • Kariya - scored
Penalties

none

none

Shots on goal 11–12–8–3–34 14–9–14–5–42
Win/Loss L - Patrick Lalime W - Marty Turco

National Anthems

Canadian country singer Paul Brandt sang the Canadian national anthem while Latin singer and Florida native Jorge Moreno sang the American national anthem.

Rosters

Eastern Conference Western Conference
Head coach CanadaJacques Martin (Ottawa Senators) CanadaMarc Crawford (Vancouver Canucks)
Assistant coach CanadaKen Hitchcock (Philadelphia Flyers) CanadaDave Lewis (Detroit Red Wings)
Lineup Starting lineup:

Reserves:

Starting lineup:

Reserves:

Notes

See also

References

  1. "Heatley Gets 4 Goals to Tie All-Star Mark". The Edwardsville Intelligencer. February 1, 2003. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
  2. "MVP Heatley turns it up". The Gainesville Sun. February 3, 2003. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
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