Montreal at Buffalo

Shots
123OTT
Montreal 8 8 4 0 20
Buffalo 2 11 12 0 25
Goals
123OTT
Montreal 2 0 1 0 3
Buffalo 0 1 5 0 6


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. MONTREAL, HEJDUK 9 (STRAKA, BRISEBOIS), 11:55
2. MONTREAL, GAGNE 13 (STRAKA, FITZGERALD), 18:06

PENALTIES: D. KALININ Buf (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 02:43, B. WITT Mon (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 07:23, T. FLEURY Buf (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 08:29, D. KALININ Buf (BOARDING, Minor) 16:02

Period 2
3. BUFFALO, NOVOSELTSEV 12 (CULLEN, PERSSON), 02:43

PENALTIES: T. WARRINER Mon (HIGHSTICKING, Double Minor) 10:25, J. FRIESEN Buf (HOOKING, Minor) 19:16

Period 3
4. BUFFALO, LECLAIR 17 (CULLEN, YORK) (PP), 03:00
5. BUFFALO, NIEDERMAYER 4 (LECLAIR, CULLEN), 05:27
6. BUFFALO, FRIESEN 11 (PYATT, FERENCE), 06:00
7. BUFFALO, PYATT 4 (FERENCE, FRIESEN), 13:09
8. MONTREAL, BRISEBOIS 6 (FITZGERALD, GAGNE), 14:13
9. BUFFALO, FLEURY 12 (LECLAIR, CULLEN), 15:10

PENALTIES: B. MCCABE Mon (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 01:57, T. WARRINER Mon (ROUGHING, Minor) 07:18, M. NYLANDER Mon (BOARDING, Minor) 10:25, T. FLEURY Buf (ELBOWING, Minor) 10:25

Goalie Statistics

Byron Dafoe (Mon), 2 saves out of 3 shots
Tom Barrasso (Mon), 17 saves out of 22 shots, L, 7-4-1
Chris Osgood (Buf), 17 saves out of 20 shots, W, 10-11-1

Power Play Conversions

Montreal 0 for 4
Buffalo 1 for 4

Game Stars

1 - Jeff Friesen (Buf)
2 - Matt Cullen (Buf)
3 - John LeClair (Buf)

Player Statistics

Montreal

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Brendan Witt          0  0  0    -2   2  2   3 21
Martin Straka         0  2  2    -1   0  1   1 31
Sebastien Bordeleau   0  0  0    +2   0  0   1  4
Todd Warriner         0  0  0  Even   6  0   0 15
Simon Gagne           1  1  2    -1   0  2   2 28
Milan Hejduk          1  0  1    -2   0  2   1 17
Michael Nylander      0  0  0    -1   2  1   0 19
Andrew Cassels        0  0  0    -3   0  0   0 18
Derek Morris          0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  3
Niklas Sundstrom      0  0  0  Even   0  0   0 11
Jeff Jillson          0  0  0  Even   0  1   1 19
Tom Fitzgerald        0  2  2    +2   0  3   1 12
Mark Recchi           0  0  0    -2   0  1   2 21
Lyle Odelein          0  0  0    +1   0  3   0 18
Bryan McCabe          0  0  0    -2   2  3   3 26
Patrice Brisebois     1  1  2  Even   0  1   1 20
Brian Willsie         0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  0
Vladimir Tsyplakov    0  0  0    -1   0  0   0  8
   
Buffalo

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Olli Jokinen          0  0  0    +2   0  2   0 22
Jeff Friesen          1  1  2    +2   2  6   1 21
Taylor Pyatt          1  1  2    +1   0  2   3 19
John LeClair          1  2  3    +1   0  2   2 23
Ivan Novoseltsev      1  0  1  Even   0  1   1 13
Matt Cullen           0  4  4    +1   0  3   0 24
Theoren Fleury        1  0  1    +1   4  3   1 19
Scott Niedermayer     1  0  1  Even   0  2   2 27
Colin White           0  0  0    +1   0  0   1 23
Jason York            0  1  1    +1   0  1   3 22
Andrew Ference        0  2  2    +2   0  2   3 20
Dmitri Kalinin        0  0  0    -1   4  0   0 16
Mats Lindgren         0  0  0  Even   0  0   1  6
Richard Park          0  0  0  Even   0  0   0 11
Manny Malhotra        0  0  0    -1   0  0   1  3
Martin Erat           0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 11
Paul Healey           0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  0
Ricard Persson        0  1  1  Even   0  0   1 12
   

Financial

Attendance: 14574
Net Profit: $760 763,00

Game Notes

Derek Morris injured at 07:23 of the 1st Period
Byron Dafoe enters game at 13:09 of 3rd period

Minor League Box Score

Montreal       2
Buffalo        5
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Eric Boulton 9 (David Morisset, Bill Houlder)
Eric Landry 9 (David Harlock, Johnathan Aitken)

Sergei Krivokrasov 7 (Steve Bancroft, Jeremy Stevenson)
Shawn Horcoff 4 (Rick Tocchet, Jonathan Sim)
Jonathan Sim 8 (Kiril Safronov, Brad Chartrand)
Milan Kraft 14 (Garry Valk, Michael Farrell)
Shawn Horcoff 5 (Yuri Butsayev, Eric Cairns)

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Goalies
Montreal: Andrew Raycroft
Buffalo: Stephen Valiquette
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