Pittsburgh at Buffalo

Shots
123OTT
Pittsburgh 7 9 13 0 29
Buffalo 8 11 11 0 30
Goals
123OTT
Pittsburgh 0 1 2 0 3
Buffalo 2 4 1 0 7


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. BUFFALO, MCEACHERN 4 (PERREAULT, CZERKAWSKI) (PP), 03:57
2. BUFFALO, CZERKAWSKI 4 (PERREAULT, HOUSLEY), 10:11

PENALTIES: G. TITOV Pit (KICKING, Major) 02:59, D. KASPARAITIS Pit (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 12:51, D. KASPARAITIS Pit (BOARDING, Minor) 15:07, B. BRUNET Pit (BOARDING, Minor) 16:40, S. MCEACHERN Buf (ROUGHING, Minor) 17:59

Period 2
3. BUFFALO, LECLAIR 7 (HOUSLEY, PYATT) (PP), 06:27
4. BUFFALO, LECLAIR 8 (FRANCIS, FLEURY), 11:46
5. PITTSBURGH, WESLEY 3 (BONDRA, KASPARAITIS) (PP), 13:59
6. BUFFALO, MCEACHERN 5 (WHITE, YORK), 15:07
7. BUFFALO, TOCCHET 2 (LECLAIR), 16:15

PENALTIES: M. PARRISH Pit (ELBOWING, Minor) 04:40, P. BONDRA Pit (ELBOWING, Minor) 10:57, O. JOKINEN Buf (BOARDING, Double Minor) 10:57, Y. PERREAULT Buf (HOOKING, Minor) 12:03, S. LEFEBVRE Buf (HOOKING, Minor) 16:42

Period 3
8. BUFFALO, MCEACHERN 6 (CZERKAWSKI, PERREAULT) (PP), 15:40
9. PITTSBURGH, LACROIX 1 (ZEDNIK, SYDOR), 16:37
10. PITTSBURGH, JAGR 7 (SPACEK, YZERMAN), 19:47

PENALTIES: D. KASPARAITIS Pit (ROUGHING, Minor) 06:53, P. BONDRA Pit (HOOKING, Minor, Game Misconduct) 09:35 (Served by Darius Kasparaitis), S. KOIVU Pit (ROUGHING, Double Minor) 12:24, B. BRUNET Pit (ELBOWING, Minor) 17:12

Goalie Statistics

Nikolai Khabibulin (Pit), 11 saves out of 13 shots
Mark Fitzpatrick (Pit), 12 saves out of 17 shots, L, 0-1-0
Chris Osgood (Buf), 26 saves out of 29 shots, W, 9-8-3

Power Play Conversions

Pittsburgh 1 for 4
Buffalo 3 for 9

Game Stars

1 - John LeClair (Buf)
2 - Shawn McEachern (Buf)
3 - Mariusz Czerkawski (Buf)

Player Statistics

Pittsburgh

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Peter Bondra          0  1  1    -3  14  0   0 19
Michal Handzus        0  0  0    -1   0  1   2 16
Darius Kasparaitis    0  1  1  Even   6  2   6 20
German Titov          0  0  0  Even   5  1   4 17
Bobby Dollas          0  0  0    -1   0  0   0  8
Benoit Brunet         0  0  0    -1   4  1   1 18
Steve Yzerman         0  1  1    -1   0  0   0 19
Jaromir Jagr          1  0  1    -2   0 10   2 27
Jaroslav Spacek       0  1  1    -1   0  1   2 17
Glen Wesley           1  0  1    +1   0  5   1 25
Darryl Sydor          0  1  1  Even   0  4   2 23
Ian Moran             0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  0
Paul Ranheim          0  0  0    +1   0  1   1 12
Saku Koivu            0  0  0    -2   4  1   0 17
Pavel Trnka           0  0  0  Even   0  1   0  9
Mark Parrish          0  0  0  Even   2  0   0  8
Richard Zednik        0  1  1  Even   0  0   1 13
Andreas Karlsson      0  0  0    -1   0  0   0  2
Daniel Lacroix        1  0  1    +1   0  1   0  6
   
Buffalo

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Mariusz Czerkawski    1  2  3    -1   0  4   2 25
Taylor Pyatt          0  1  1    +1   0  1   0 16
Ron Francis           0  1  1    +1   0  2   1 24
Phil Housley          0  2  2  Even   0  0   0 20
John LeClair          2  1  3    +1   0  5   5 29
Dave Manson           0  0  0  Even   0  0   1  9
Shawn McEachern       3  0  3    +1   2  4   3 24
Scott Niedermayer     0  0  0  Even   0  1   1 17
Olli Jokinen          0  0  0    +1   4  0   0  9
Colin White           0  1  1    +1   0  1   1  8
Rick Tocchet          1  0  1    +1   0  2   0 13
Jason York            0  1  1    +1   0  1   1 24
Andrew Ference        0  0  0    +1   0  2   2 16
Theo Fleury           0  1  1    +1   0  2   0 15
Sylvain Lefebvre      0  0  0  Even   2  0   1 11
Yanic Perreault       0  3  3  Even   2  1   1 22
Dimitri Kalinin       0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  4
Jon Sim               0  0  0    +1   0  4   0  6
   

Financial

Attendance: 18500
Net Profit: $599 400,00

Game Notes

Nikolai Khabibulin enters game at 15:07 of 2nd period
Theo Fleury injured at 09:35 of the 3rd Period
Peter Bondra ejected at 09:35 of the 3rd Period
Shawn McEachern scores a hat trick

Minor League Box Score

Wilkes-Bar     8
Rochester      2
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Brad Tapper 6 (Mike Knuble, Brad Bombardir)
Paul Mara 1 (Dave Lowry, Robert Kron)
Jeff Zehr 3 (Jamie Wright, Maxim Sushinsky)
Mark Eaton 1 (Ryan VandenBussche, Matt Herr)
Paul Mara 2 (Bryan Helmer, unknown)
Mike Knuble 7 (Dan Keczmer, unknown)
Brad Bombardir 1 (unknown, unknown)
Paul Mara 3 (unknown, unknown)

Tommy Westlund 6 (Petteri Nummelin, Richard Park)
Milan Kraft 9 (Alain Nasreddine, Brad Leeb)

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Goalies
Wilkes-Bar: Craig Billington
Rochester: Mathieu Garon
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