Montreal at Buffalo

Shots
123OTT
Montreal 7 14 8 0 29
Buffalo 11 7 8 0 26
Goals
123OTT
Montreal 2 0 0 0 2
Buffalo 3 0 1 0 4


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. BUFFALO, FRIESEN 19 (FERENCE, WHITE), 06:43
2. MONTREAL, SAKIC 28 (WITT), 12:45
3. BUFFALO, PYATT 8 (YORK, FRIESEN), 12:52
4. BUFFALO, FLEURY 23 (ERAT, AEBISCHER), 16:28
5. MONTREAL, GAGNE 23 (BRISEBOIS, NYLANDER), 18:25

PENALTIES: J. FRIESEN Buf (BOARDING, Minor) 04:04, S. GAGNE Mon (CHARGING, Minor) 09:28, M. NYLANDER Mon (HOOKING, Minor) 13:55

Period 2
NO SCORING

PENALTIES: J. REEKIE Mon (ROUGHING, Minor) 10:39, O. VAANANEN Buf (ELBOWING, Minor) 18:22

Period 3
6. BUFFALO, LECLAIR 24 (CULLEN, YORK), 09:54

PENALTIES: O. JOKINEN Buf (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 04:40, J. REEKIE Mon (CROSS-CHECKING, Double Minor) 05:55, O. VAANANEN Buf (ELBOWING, Minor) 05:55, S. BORDELEAU Mon (CHARGING, Minor) 12:55

Goalie Statistics

Byron Dafoe (Mon), 22 saves out of 26 shots, L, 24-13-6
David Aebischer (Buf), 27 saves out of 29 shots, W, 7-8-0

Power Play Conversions

Montreal 0 for 3
Buffalo 0 for 5

Game Stars

1 - Jeff Friesen (Buf)
2 - David Aebischer (Buf)
3 - Theoren Fleury (Buf)

Player Statistics

Montreal

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Brendan Witt          0  1  1    -1   0  0   4 25
Martin Straka         0  0  0  Even   0  3   0 24
Sebastien Bordeleau   0  0  0  Even   2  1   1  9
Todd Warriner         0  0  0    -2   0  1   1 11
Simon Gagne           1  0  1    -2   2  2   1 24
Milan Hejduk          0  0  0    +1   0  3   0 19
Mikko Eloranta        0  0  0  Even   0  0   1  6
Michael Nylander      0  1  1    -1   2  3   1 20
Andrew Cassels        0  0  0  Even   0  1   0  6
Derek Morris          0  0  0    -1   0  0   1  5
Niklas Sundstrom      0  0  0    -2   0  1   0 13
Jeff Jillson          0  0  0    +1   0  0   2 16
Joe Sakic             1  0  1  Even   0  2   1 17
Mark Recchi           0  0  0    -1   0  4   1 20
Joe Reekie            0  0  0    -2   6  1   2 17
Bryan McCabe          0  0  0  Even   0  4   0 27
Patrice Brisebois     0  1  1  Even   0  3   0 21
Brian Willsie         0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  8
   
Buffalo

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Olli Jokinen          0  0  0    +1   2  2   0 16
Jeff Friesen          1  1  2    +1   2  4   2 23
Taylor Pyatt          1  0  1    -1   0  3   2 23
John LeClair          1  0  1    +2   0  3   0 23
Ivan Novoseltsev      0  0  0  Even   0  1   0  5
Matt Cullen           0  1  1    +1   0  1   0 22
Theoren Fleury        1  0  1    +1   0  5   3 25
Colin White           0  1  1    +2   0  2   1 25
Jason York            0  2  2  Even   0  0   3 26
Andrew Ference        0  1  1    +2   0  0   0 18
Dmitri Kalinin        0  0  0  Even   0  2   1 22
Mats Lindgren         0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  3
Richard Park          0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  0
Martin Erat           0  1  1    +1   0  3   0 11
Paul Healey           0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  0
Steve Bancroft        0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  5
Ossi Vaananen         0  0  0  Even   4  0   3 24
Jochen Hecht          0  0  0  Even   0  0   0 22
   

Financial

Attendance: 14156
Net Profit: $738 943,00

Game Notes

Derek Morris injured at 13:55 of the 1st Period
Joe Sakic injured at 13:36 of the 2nd Period

Minor League Box Score

Montreal       4
Buffalo        2
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Eric Landry 16 (Norman Milley, Kamil Piros)
Eric Boulton 11 (Dave Roche, Michal Sykora)
Sean Avery 13 (Mike Sullivan, Paul Ranheim)
Lukas Krajicek 5 (Guillaume Lefebvre, Joel Kwiatkowski)

Shawn Horcoff 14 (Brad Chartrand, Martti Jarventie)
Rick Tocchet 15 (Jonathan Sim, Garry Valk)

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Goalies
Montreal: John Grahame
Buffalo: Stephen Valiquette
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