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Year-by-Year Results
2002-03 Regular Season 2003-04 Regular Season
27-37-10-8 5th Place – Northeast Division 37-34-5-4 5th Place – Northeast Division
Oct. 10 NY Islanders 5-1 W
Oct. 12 @ Montreal 6-1 W
Oct. 13 @ Chicago 0-3 L
Oct. 17 NY Rangers 4-4 T
Oct. 19 Phoenix 2-3 L
Oct. 22 Philadelphia 2-1 W
Oct. 25 New Jersey 1-2 L
Oct. 26 @ Pittsburgh 2-5 L
Oct. 29 @ Vancouver 1-1 T
Oct. 31 @ Calgary 0-3 L
Nov. 1 @ Edmonton 1-1 T
Nov. 3 @ Columbus 2-3 L
Nov. 7 @ Carolina 0-2 L
Nov. 9 Atlanta 4-6 L
Nov. 12 Boston 3-4 L
Nov. 15 Toronto 2-3 L
Nov. 16 @ Ottawa 1-4 L
Nov. 19 @ New Jersey 3-4 O*
Nov. 22 Columbus 5-4 W
Nov. 23 @ Boston 1-4 L
Nov. 27 Tampa Bay 1-1 T
Nov. 29 Pittsburgh 1-4 L
Nov. 30 @ Toronto 1-3 L
Dec. 4 Anaheim 4-0 W
Dec. 6 @ NY Rangers 4-1 W
Dec. 7 Washington 4-3 W
Dec. 10 Ottawa 2-4 L
Dec. 13 Chicago 1-1 T
Dec. 14 @ Philadelphia 0-2 L
Dec. 18 Boston 4-2 W
Dec. 20 Florida 0-2 L
Dec. 21 @ Montreal 2-6 L
Dec. 23 @ Pittsburgh 2-5 L
Dec. 26 Ottawa 2-3 L
Dec. 28 Minnesota 3-4 L
Dec. 30 @ Washington 3-4 L
Dec. 31 NY Islanders 0-1 O*
Jan. 3 Carolina 6-3 W
Jan. 4 @ Ottawa 2-1 W*
Jan. 7 @ Philadelphia 2-3 L
Jan. 10 Boston 4-2 W
Jan. 11 @ Montreal 3-2 W
Jan. 14 @ Minnesota 1-0 W
Jan. 16 @ San Jose 2-2 T
Jan. 18 @ Phoenix 1-0 W
Jan. 21 Pittsburgh 0-0 T
Jan. 24 Toronto 4-0 W
Jan. 25 @ Ottawa 3-4 O*
Jan. 27 Nashville 1-5 L
Jan. 30 @ St. Louis 1-2 O*
Feb. 4 @ New Jersey 1-4 L
Feb. 7 Vancouver 2-4 L
Feb. 8 @ NY Islanders 1-3 L
Feb. 11 St. Louis 2-3 L
Feb. 13 @ Detroit 2-4 L
Feb. 15 NY Rangers 5-4 W
Feb. 17 @ Atlanta 3-4 O*
Feb. 19 Montreal 2-1 W*
Feb. 21 Los Angeles 1-4 L
Feb. 23 @ Tampa Bay 4-1 W
Feb. 24 @ Florida 2-2 T
Feb. 26 @ Washington 2-3 L
Feb. 28 Dallas 5-3 W
Mar. 1 @ NY Islanders 1-2 O*
Mar. 4 Washington 1-2 L
Mar. 6 Toronto 4-2 W
Mar. 8 @ Florida 4-0 W
Mar. 9 @ Tampa Bay 1-1 T
Mar. 12 Carolina 2-3 O*
Mar. 14 Tampa Bay 2-4 L
Mar. 15 @ Atlanta 3-5 L
Mar. 18 Philadelphia 5-2 W
Mar. 19 @ NY Rangers 0-3 L
Mar. 22 @ Toronto 2-3 O*
Mar. 24 Colorado 4-3 W*
Mar. 26 Florida 2-1 W
Mar. 28 Montreal 4-1 W
Mar. 29 @ Carolina 3-1 W
Mar. 31 @ Dallas 0-3 L
Apr. 2 Atlanta 4-3 W
Apr. 5 @ Boston 5-8 L
Apr. 6 New Jersey 2-2 T
Oct. 9 @ Philadelphia 0-2 L
Oct. 11 NY Islanders 0-6 L
Oct. 13 Dallas 4-3 W
Oct. 16 @ Edmonton 1-4 L
Oct. 18 @ Calgary 2-0 W
Oct. 20 @ Vancouver 1-6 L
Oct. 23 @ Los Angeles 5-1 W
Oct. 24 @ Anaheim 5-2 W
Oct. 26 @ Colorado 3-1 W
Oct. 28 Minnesota 1-3 L
Oct. 30 Toronto 5-3 W
Nov. 1 @ Ottawa 1-1 T
Nov. 5 Atlanta 4-7 L
Nov. 7 Montreal 2-1 W
Nov. 8 @ Montreal 0-3 L
Nov. 12 New Jersey 2-2 T#
Nov. 14 Pittsburgh 1-2 O*
Nov. 17 @ Ottawa 2-1 W
Nov. 19 @ New Jersey 1-4 L
Nov. 21 Carolina 5-0 W
Nov. 22 @ Tampa Bay 1-2 L
Nov. 24 @ Florida 1-2 L
Nov. 26 Washington 5-2 W
Nov. 28 Florida 4-3 W
Nov. 29 @ Nashville 1-4 L
Dec. 3 @ Chicago 3-2 W
Dec. 4 Phoenix 2-3 L
Dec. 6 Tampa Bay 1-3 L
Dec. 10 Detroit 2-7 L
Dec. 12 NY Rangers 1-3 L
Dec. 13 @ Minnesota 2-3 L
Dec. 16 @ Pittsburgh 1-2 L
Dec. 19 New Jersey 2-5 L
Dec. 23 Ottawa 2-2 T
Dec. 26 Carolina 3-1 W
Dec. 27 @ Washington 3-1 W
Dec. 29 @ Carolina 1-2 L
Dec. 31 Washington 7-1 W
Jan. 2 Anaheim 5-2 W
Jan. 3 @ Toronto 3-3 T
Jan. 6 @ Montreal 1-3 L
Jan. 7 Philadelphia 1-1 T
Jan. 9 Ottawa 3-2 W
Jan. 12 @ Boston 3-4 L
Jan. 13 Philadelphia 6-2 W
Jan. 15 Boston 0-1 L
Jan. 17 @ NY Islanders 2-4 L
Jan. 20 @ Atlanta 1-4 L
Jan. 22 @ Boston 3-2 W
Jan. 24 @ Philadelphia 1-2 L
Jan. 25 @ Carolina 4-2 W
Jan. 27 Montreal 4-1 W
Jan. 30 @ NY Rangers 3-1 W
Jan. 31 NY Rangers 3-1 W
Feb. 5 Boston 2-6 L
Feb. 10 San Jose 2-1 W
Feb. 13 Los Angeles 8-3 W
Feb. 14 @ Toronto 6-4 W
Feb. 16 Atlanta 7-2 W
Feb. 18 Florida 1-1 T
Feb. 20 Tampa Bay 4-3 W*
Feb. 21 @ NY Islanders 1-4 L
Feb. 25 @ New Jersey 2-8 L
Feb. 27 NY Islanders 2-4 L
Feb. 28 @ Ottawa 1-7 L
Mar. 3 Ottawa 4-3 W
Mar. 6 @ Toronto 5-1 W
Mar. 7 St. Louis 1-5 L
Mar. 10 @ Washington 6-0 W
Mar. 11 Boston 2-3 O*
Mar. 13 @ Boston 2-3 O*
Mar. 15 Toronto 5-6 O*
Mar. 17 @ Atlanta 4-3 W*
Mar. 18 @ Tampa Bay 1-3 L
Mar. 20 @ Florida 2-1 W
Mar. 24 Montreal 2-1 W
Mar. 26 Pittsburgh 5-1 W
Mar. 27 @ Pittsburgh 2-2 T
Mar. 29 Columbus 6-0 W
Mar. 31 @ NY Rangers 4-3 W
Apr. 2 Toronto 0-2 L
Apr. 3 @Montreal 3-6 L
* - overtime decision O - overtime loss * - overtime decision O - overtime loss # - played at Blue Cross Arena (Rochester, NY)
2002-03 Regular Season Scoring 2003-04 Regular Season Scoring
NO. PLAYER GP G A PTS +/- PIM PP SH GW GT SHOTS PCT.
81 Miroslav Satan 79 26 49 75 -3 20 11 1 3 1 240 10.8
77 Chris Gratton 66 15 29 44 -5 86 4 0 2 0 187 8.0
12 Ales Kotalik* 68 21 14 35 -2 30 4 0 2 2 138 15.2
17 J-P Dumont 76 14 21 35 -14 44 2 0 2 0 135 10.4
41 Stu Barnes 68 11 21 32 -13 20 2 1 2 0 124 8.9
37 Curtis Brown 74 15 16 31 4 40 3 4 4 0 144 10.4
24 Taylor Pyatt 78 14 14 28 -8 38 2 0 0 0 110 12.7
71 Jochen Hecht 49 10 16 26 4 30 2 0 2 0 145 6.9
18 Tim Connolly 80 12 13 25 -28 32 6 0 2 0 159 7.5
45 Dmitri Kalinin 65 8 13 21 -7 57 3 1 0 1 83 9.6
44 Alexei Zhitnik 70 3 18 21 -5 85 0 0 1 0 138 2.2
51 Brian Campbell 65 2 17 19 -8 20 0 0 1 0 90 2.2
22 Adam Mair 79 6 11 17 -4 146 0 1 1 0 83 7.2
3 James Patrick 69 4 12 16 -3 26 2 0 1 0 63 6.3
10 Henrik Tallinder* 46 3 10 13 -3 28 1 0 0 0 37 8.1
48 Daniel Briere 14 7 5 12 - 12 5 0 1 1 39 17.9
25 Vaclav Varada 44 7 4 11 -2 23 1 0 0 0 64 10.9
61 Maxim Afinogenov 35 5 6 11 -12 21 2 0 2 0 77 6.5
4 Rhett Warrener 50 0 9 9 1 63 0 0 0 0 47 0.0
26 Eric Boulton 58 1 5 6 1 178 0 0 0 0 33 3.0
28 Jason Botterill 17 1 4 5 1 14 1 0 0 0 20 5.0
74 Jay McKee 59 0 5 5 -16 49 0 0 0 0 44 0.0
16 Chris Taylor 11 1 3 4 -1 2 0 0 0 0 10 10.0
8 Rory Fitzpatrick 36 1 3 4 -7 16 0 0 0 0 29 3.4
5 Jason Woolley 14 0 3 3 -1 29 0 0 0 0 29 0.0
55 Denis Hamel 25 2 0 2 -4 17 0 0 1 0 41 4.9
19 Norman Milley* 8 0 2 2 -2 6 0 0 0 0 8 0.0
15 Milan Bartovic* 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 20.0
43 Martin Biron 54 0 1 1 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
6 Doug Houda 1 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
60 Paul Gaustad* 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
23 Sean McMorrow* 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
29 Jaroslav Kristek* 6 0 0 0 -2 4 0 0 0 0 4 0.0
33 Doug Janik* 6 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0.0
21 Radoslav Hecl 14 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 0.0
32 Rob Ray 41 0 0 0 -5 92 0 0 0 0 14 0.0
30 Ryan Miller* 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
35 Mika Noronen* 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
NO. PLAYER GP MIN AVG. W L T EN SO GA SA PCT.
35 Mika Noronen* 16 891 2.42 4 9 3 2 1 36 411 .912
43 Martin Biron 54 3170 2.56 17 28 6 5 4 135 1468 .908
30 Ryan Miller* 15 912 2.63 6 8 1 1 1 40 410 .902
TEAM TOTALS 82 5002 2.63 27 45 10 8 6 219 2297 .905
* - rookie
195
NO. PLAYER GP G A PTS +/- PIM PP SH GW GT SHOTS PCT.
48 Daniel Briere 82 28 37 65 -7 70 11 0 3 0 194 14.4
81 Miroslav Satan 82 29 28 57 -15 30 11 1 5 0 206 14.1
17 J-P Dumont 77 22 31 53 -9 40 10 0 1 0 156 14.1
23 Chris Drury 76 18 35 53 8 68 5 1 2 0 152 11.8
55 Jochen Hecht 64 15 37 52 17 49 2 1 0 0 174 8.6
45 Dmitri Kalinin 77 10 24 34 0 42 2 1 4 0 118 8.5
61 Maxim Afinogenov 73 17 14 31 -4 57 3 0 4 1 148 11.5
44 Alexei Zhitnik 68 4 24 28 -13 102 2 0 0 1 134 3.0
12 Ales Kotalik 62 15 11 26 -1 41 2 0 3 0 142 10.6
37 Curtis Brown 68 9 12 21 2 30 2 1 2 0 117 7.7
24 Taylor Pyatt 63 8 12 20 -7 25 1 2 4 0 98 8.2
22 Adam Mair 81 6 14 20 -3 146 1 0 1 0 82 7.3
9 Derek Roy* 49 9 10 19 -8 12 1 0 4 0 71 12.7
16 Chris Taylor 54 6 6 12 -2 22 0 0 0 0 50 12.0
3 James Patrick 55 4 7 11 11 12 0 0 1 0 44 9.1
8 Rory Fitzpatrick 60 4 7 11 -5 44 2 0 2 0 78 5.1
51 Brian Campbell 53 3 8 11 -8 12 0 0 0 0 45 6.7
10 Henrik Tallinder 72 1 9 10 5 26 0 0 0 0 63 1.6
25 Mike Grier 14 1 8 9 10 4 0 0 0 0 18 5.6
15 Milan Bartovic* 23 1 8 9 1 18 0 0 0 0 30 3.3
5 Andy Delmore 37 2 5 7 -5 29 2 0 0 0 40 5.0
74 Jay McKee 43 2 3 5 6 41 0 0 1 0 29 6.9
28 Jason Botterill 19 2 1 3 0 14 1 0 0 0 20 10.0
26 Eric Boulton 44 1 2 3 -2 110 0 0 0 0 20 5.0
34 Jeff Jillson 14 0 3 3 -3 19 0 0 0 0 35 0.0
76 Andrew Peters* 42 2 0 2 -3 151 0 0 0 0 19 10.5
4 Brad Brown 13 0 2 2 3 12 0 0 0 0 6 0.0
43 Martin Biron 52 0 2 2 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
35 Mika Noronen 35 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 100.0
29 Jason Pominville* 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0.0
19 Norman Milley* 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 0.0
30 Ryan Miller* 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
38 Domenic Pittis 4 0 0 0 -1 4 0 0 0 0 3 0.0
33 Doug Janik* 4 0 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 0 3 0.0
NO. PLAYER GP MIN AVG. W L T EN SO GA SA PCT.
43 Martin Biron 72 4085 2.22 31 28 10 6 4 151 1781 .915
35 Mika Noronen* 10 518 2.66 4 3 1 0 0 23 217 .894
31 Bob Essensa 9 350 2.91 0 5 0 3 0 17 113 .850
TEAM TOTALS 82 4953 2.31 35 36 11 9 4 191 2111 .909
* - rookie