2002–03 Nashville Predators season

The 2002–03 Nashville Predators season was the Nashville Predators' 5th season in the National Hockey League (NHL).

2002–03 Nashville Predators
Division	4th Central
Conference	13th Western
2002–03 record	27–35–13–7
Goals for	183
Goals against	206
Team information
General manager	David Poile
Coach	Barry Trotz
Captain	Greg Johnson

Regular season

The Predators tied the Calgary Flames, Minnesota Wild and Pittsburgh Penguins for most times shut out, with 10, and tied the Montreal Canadiens for fewest short-handed goals scored, with 2.[1][2]

Final standings

Central Division

No.	CR		GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	Pts
1	2	Detroit Red Wings	82	48	20	10	4	269	203	110
2	5	St. Louis Blues	82	41	24	11	6	253	222	99
3	9	Chicago Blackhawks	82	30	33	13	6	207	226	79
4	13	Nashville Predators	82	27	35	13	7	183	206	74
5	15	Columbus Blue Jackets	82	29	42	8	3	213	263	69

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Note: CR = Conference rank; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; OTL = Overtime loss; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points
         Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs.

Game log

Regular season schedule

No.	R	Date	Score	Opponent	Record
1	L	October 11, 2002	4–5	@ Washington Capitals (2002–03)	0–1–0–0
2	L	October 12, 2002	2–3	Edmonton Oilers (2002–03)	0–2–0–0
3	OTL	October 15, 2002	3–4 OT	@ New York Islanders (2002–03)	0–2–0–1
4	OTL	October 18, 2002	2–3 OT	@ New Jersey Devils (2002–03)	0–2–0–2
5	T	October 19, 2002	2–2 OT	@ New York Rangers (2002–03)	0–2–1–2
6	L	October 22, 2002	1–2	Phoenix Coyotes (2002–03)	0–3–1–2
7	L	October 24, 2002	1–2	San Jose Sharks (2002–03)	0–4–1–2
8	W	October 26, 2002	3–1	Detroit Red Wings (2002–03)	1–4–1–2
9	L	October 30, 2002	0–7	@ St. Louis Blues (2002–03)	1–5–1–2
10	OTL	November 2, 2002	5–6 OT	@ Los Angeles Kings (2002–03)	1–5–1–3
11	OTL	November 3, 2002	1–2 OT	@ Phoenix Coyotes (2002–03)	1–5–1–4
12	L	November 6, 2002	1–2	@ Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (2002–03)	1–6–1–4
13	T	November 7, 2002	2–2 OT	@ San Jose Sharks (2002–03)	1–6–2–4
14	W	November 10, 2002	4–3	@ Colorado Avalanche (2002–03)	2–6–2–4
15	L	November 12, 2002	1–4	@ Detroit Red Wings (2002–03)	2–7–2–4
16	L	November 14, 2002	1–3	Colorado Avalanche (2002–03)	2–8–2–4
17	T	November 16, 2002	1–1 OT	Columbus Blue Jackets (2002–03)	2–8–3–4
18	L	November 17, 2002	2–4	@ Chicago Blackhawks (2002–03)	2–9–3–4
19	T	November 21, 2002	1–1 OT	@ Colorado Avalanche (2002–03)	2–9–4–4
20	L	November 23, 2002	2–4	@ Minnesota Wild (2002–03)	2–10–4–4
21	W	November 27, 2002	4–2	San Jose Sharks (2002–03)	3–10–4–4
22	L	November 29, 2002	1–2	New Jersey Devils (2002–03)	3–11–4–4
23	W	November 30, 2002	5–2	Dallas Stars (2002–03)	4–11–4–4
24	L	December 3, 2002	1–2	Carolina Hurricanes (2002–03)	4–12–4–4
25	W	December 5, 2002	3–2	@ Los Angeles Kings (2002–03)	5–12–4–4
26	W	December 7, 2002	4–2	@ San Jose Sharks (2002–03)	6–12–4–4
27	L	December 8, 2002	0–3	@ Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (2002–03)	6–13–4–4
28	L	December 10, 2002	0–3	Los Angeles Kings (2002–03)	6–14–4–4
29	T	December 12, 2002	2–2 OT	St. Louis Blues (2002–03)	6–14–5–4
30	W	December 14, 2002	3–1	Minnesota Wild (2002–03)	7–14–5–4
31	L	December 17, 2002	0–3	Calgary Flames (2002–03)	7–15–5–4
32	L	December 19, 2002	1–3	Vancouver Canucks (2002–03)	7–16–5–4
33	T	December 21, 2002	2–2 OT	@ Tampa Bay Lightning (2002–03)	7–16–6–4
34	W	December 23, 2002	3–2 OT	@ Florida Panthers (2002–03)	8–16–6–4
35	W	December 26, 2002	3–1	Dallas Stars (2002–03)	9–16–6–4
36	L	December 28, 2002	2–4	Detroit Red Wings (2002–03)	9–17–6–4
37	W	December 30, 2002	3–2	Ottawa Senators (2002–03)	10–17–6–4
38	L	January 1, 2003	3–7	Colorado Avalanche (2002–03)	10–18–6–4
39	T	January 4, 2003	3–3 OT	Chicago Blackhawks (2002–03)	10–18–7–4
40	W	January 6, 2003	5–1	@ Columbus Blue Jackets (2002–03)	11–18–7–4
41	W	January 7, 2003	2–1 OT	St. Louis Blues (2002–03)	12–18–7–4
42	W	January 11, 2003	4–3 OT	Phoenix Coyotes (2002–03)	13–18–7–4
43	L	January 12, 2003	0–2	@ Chicago Blackhawks (2002–03)	13–19–7–4
44	L	January 14, 2003	3–4	@ Vancouver Canucks (2002–03)	13–20–7–4
45	T	January 16, 2003	2–2 OT	@ Calgary Flames (2002–03)	13–20–8–4
46	W	January 18, 2003	3–2 OT	@ Edmonton Oilers (2002–03)	14–20–8–4
47	W	January 21, 2003	3–2	Vancouver Canucks (2002–03)	15–20–8–4
48	L	January 23, 2003	2–4	New York Rangers (2002–03)	15–21–8–4
49	W	January 25, 2003	3–2	Tampa Bay Lightning (2002–03)	16–21–8–4
50	W	January 27, 2003	5–1	@ Buffalo Sabres (2002–03)	17–21–8–4
51	L	January 28, 2003	1–2	@ Boston Bruins (2002–03)	17–22–8–4
52	L	January 30, 2003	1–2	@ Columbus Blue Jackets (2002–03)	17–23–8–4
53	T	February 4, 2003	5–5 OT	@ Detroit Red Wings (2002–03)	17–23–9–4
54	W	February 8, 2003	3–2	Columbus Blue Jackets (2002–03)	18–23–9–4
55	L	February 11, 2003	2–3	Los Angeles Kings (2002–03)	18–24–9–4
56	W	February 13, 2003	2–0	New York Islanders (2002–03)	19–24–9–4
57	W	February 15, 2003	2–1	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (2002–03)	20–24–9–4
58	W	February 17, 2003	5–1	Boston Bruins (2002–03)	21–24–9–4
59	W	February 20, 2003	4–1	Calgary Flames (2002–03)	22–24–9–4
60	L	February 22, 2003	0–4	@ Ottawa Senators (2002–03)	22–25–9–4
61	W	February 23, 2003	5–2	@ Toronto Maple Leafs (2002–03)	23–25–9–4
62	W	February 25, 2003	5–0	Columbus Blue Jackets (2002–03)	24–25–9–4
63	W	February 27, 2003	6–0	Pittsburgh Penguins (2002–03)	25–25–9–4
64	W	March 1, 2003	5–4 OT	Chicago Blackhawks (2002–03)	26–25–9–4
65	OTL	March 4, 2003	1–2 OT	@ St. Louis Blues (2002–03)	26–25–9–5
66	T	March 6, 2003	2–2 OT	Minnesota Wild (2002–03)	26–25–10–5
67	W	March 7, 2003	2–1	@ Dallas Stars (2002–03)	27–25–10–5
68	L	March 10, 2003	1–3	Montreal Canadiens (2002–03)	27–26–10–5
69	T	March 12, 2003	2–2 OT	@ Pittsburgh Penguins (2002–03)	27–26–11–5
70	L	March 14, 2003	1–3	@ Minnesota Wild (2002–03)	27–27–11–5
71	L	March 15, 2003	0–1	St. Louis Blues (2002–03)	27–28–11–5
72	L	March 17, 2003	3–5	Edmonton Oilers (2002–03)	27–29–11–5
73	L	March 20, 2003	3–7	@ Vancouver Canucks (2002–03)	27–30–11–5
74	T	March 22, 2003	1–1 OT	@ Calgary Flames (2002–03)	27–30–12–5
75	OTL	March 23, 2003	2–3 OT	@ Edmonton Oilers (2002–03)	27–30–12–6
76	T	March 25, 2003	1–1 OT	Philadelphia Flyers (2002–03)	27–30–13–6
77	L	March 27, 2003	1–4	@ Chicago Blackhawks (2002–03)	27–31–13–6
78	L	March 29, 2003	2–3	Atlanta Thrashers (2002–03)	27–32–13–6
79	L	March 31, 2003	0–3	@ Detroit Red Wings (2002–03)	27–33–13–6
80	OTL	April 1, 2003	1–2 OT	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim (2002–03)	27–33–13–7
81	L	April 4, 2003	0–1	@ Phoenix Coyotes (2002–03)	27–34–13–7
82	L	April 6, 2003	0–2	@ Dallas Stars (2002–03)	27–35–13–7

Playoffs

The Predators missed the playoffs for the fifth consecutive year.

Player stats

Regular season

Scoring

Player	Pos	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	+/-	PPG	SHG	GWG
David Legwand	C	64	17	31	48	34	-2	3	1	4
Kimmo Timonen	D	72	6	34	40	46	-3	4	0	0
Andreas Johansson	C	56	20	17	37	22	-4	10	0	0
Denis Arkhipov	C	79	11	24	35	32	-18	3	0	1
Andy Delmore	D	71	18	16	34	28	-17	14	0	6
Scott Hartnell	LW	82	12	22	34	101	-3	2	0	2
Scott Walker	RW	60	15	18	33	58	2	7	0	5
Vladimir Orszagh	RW	78	16	16	32	38	-1	3	0	3
Adam Hall	RW	79	16	12	28	31	-8	8	0	2
Vitali Yachmenev	LW	62	5	15	20	12	7	0	0	1
Rem Murray	C/LW	53	6	13	19	18	1	1	0	0
Jason York	D	74	4	15	19	52	13	2	0	0
Greg Johnson	C	38	8	9	17	22	7	0	0	0
Clarke Wilm	C	82	5	11	16	36	-11	0	0	0
Karlis Skrastins	D	82	3	10	13	44	-18	0	1	0
Denis Pederson	C/RW	43	4	6	10	39	2	0	0	0
Mark Eaton	D	50	2	7	9	22	1	0	0	0
Cale Hulse	D	80	2	6	8	121	-11	0	0	1
Martin Erat	RW	27	1	7	8	14	-9	1	0	0
Vernon Fiddler	C	19	4	2	6	14	2	0	0	1
Bill Houlder	D	82	2	4	6	46	-2	0	0	1
Oleg Petrov	RW	17	2	2	4	2	-4	0	0	0
Brent Gilchrist	LW	41	1	2	3	14	-11	0	0	0
Jon Sim	LW	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Wyatt Smith	C	11	1	0	1	0	-1	0	0	0
Scottie Upshall	LW	8	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0
Wade Flaherty	G	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Reid Simpson	LW	26	0	1	1	56	-4	0	0	0
Tomas Vokoun	G	69	0	1	1	28	0	0	0	0
Todd Warriner	LW	6	0	1	1	4	-1	0	0	0
Andrew Berenzweig	D	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Francis Bouillon	D	4	0	0	0	2	-1	0	0	0
Greg Classen	C	8	0	0	0	4	-3	0	0	0
Mike Dunham	G	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brian Finley	G	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Darren Haydar	RW	2	0	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0
Tomas Kloucek	D	3	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0
Jan Lasak	G	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cameron Mann	RW	4	0	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0
Nathan Perrott	RW	1	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Domenic Pittis	C	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Robert Schnabel	D	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pascal Trepanier	D	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Goaltending

Player	MIN	GP	W	L	T/OT	GA	GAA	SO	SA	SV	SV%
Tomas Vokoun	3974	69	25	31	11	146	2.20	3	1771	1625	.918
Mike Dunham	819	15	2	9	2	43	3.15	0	397	354	.892
Brian Finley	47	1	0	0	0	3	3.83	0	13	10	.769
Wade Flaherty	51	1	0	1	0	4	4.71	0	27	23	.852
Jan Lasak	90	3	0	1	0	5	3.33	0	39	34	.872
Team:	4981	82	27	42	13	201	2.42	3	2247	2046	.911

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Note: Pos = Position; GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/- = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalty minutes; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals
      MIN = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T/OT = Ties/overtime losses; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;

Draft picks

Nashville's draft picks at the 2002 NHL Entry Draft held at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario.

Round	#	Player	Nationality	College/Junior/Club Team (League)
1	6	Scottie Upshall	Canada	Kamloops Blazers (WHL)
4	102	Brandon Segal	Canada	Calgary Hitmen (WHL)
5	138	Patrick Jarrett	Canada	Owen Sound Attack (OHL)
6	172	Mike McKenna	United States	St. Lawrence University (ECAC)
7	203	Josh Morrow	Canada	Tri-City Americans (WHL)
8	235	Kaleb Betts	Canada	Chilliwack Chiefs (BCHL)
9	264	Matthew Davis	Canada	Moncton Wildcats (QMJHL)
9	266	Steven Spencer	Canada	Swift Current Broncos (WHL)

See also

• 2002–03 NHL season

References

• Podnieks, Andrew (2000). The NHL All-Star Game: 50 years of the great tradition. Toronto: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-200058-X.

1. "2002-03 NHL Schedule and Results - Hockey-Reference.com". Hockey-Reference.com.
2. "2002-03 NHL Summary - Hockey-Reference.com". Hockey-Reference.com.
3. Dinger, Ralph, ed. (2009). The National Hockey League Official Guide & Record Book/2010. Dan Diamond & Associates. p. 162.
4. "2002-03 Nashville Predators Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-06-15.

• "2002–03 Nashville Predators Games". Hockey-reference.com. Retrieved 2009-05-06.

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