Montreal at Buffalo

Shots
123OTT
Montreal 9 11 15 0 35
Buffalo 9 10 7 0 26
Goals
123OTT
Montreal 1 2 3 0 6
Buffalo 0 1 2 0 3


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. MONTREAL, BRISEBOIS 9 (MORRIS, HEJDUK) (PP), 13:10

PENALTIES: K. JOHNSSON Buf (ROUGHING, Minor) 02:32, M. STRAKA Mon (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 05:27, D. MORRIS Mon (CHARGING, Minor) 06:16, D. KALININ Buf (HOOKING, Minor) 11:40

Period 2
2. MONTREAL, NYLANDER 28 (HEJDUK, REEKIE), 14:02
3. MONTREAL, GAGNE 25 (SAKIC, MORRIS), 16:03
4. BUFFALO, PYATT 9 (JOKINEN, FLEURY), 16:17

PENALTIES: T. FLEURY Buf (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 01:08, E. BELFOUR Mon (ROUGHING, Minor) 16:59 (Served by Martin Straka)

Period 3
5. BUFFALO, KALININ 4 (LECLAIR), 05:48
6. MONTREAL, GAGNE 26 (SAKIC), 08:28
7. BUFFALO, CULLEN 26 (ERAT, YORK), 09:09
8. MONTREAL, MCCABE 10 (RECCHI, SAKIC) (PP), 15:56
9. MONTREAL, GAGNE 27 (BRISEBOIS, MORRIS) (PP), 17:11

PENALTIES: C. ADAMS Mon (CHARGING, Minor) 13:34, C. WHITE Buf (KICKING, Major) 13:34

Goalie Statistics

Ed Belfour (Mon), 23 saves out of 26 shots, W, 23-18-5
David Aebischer (Buf), 25 saves out of 30 shots, L, 8-10-0
Chris Osgood (Buf), 4 saves out of 5 shots

Power Play Conversions

Montreal 3 for 4
Buffalo 0 for 3

Game Stars

1 - Simon Gagne (Mon)
2 - Joe Sakic (Mon)
3 - Derek Morris (Mon)

Player Statistics

Montreal

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Martin Straka         0  0  0    -1   2  0   1 23
Todd Warriner         0  0  0  Even   0  2   3 11
Simon Gagne           3  0  3    +1   0  8   2 20
Milan Hejduk          0  2  2    -1   0  4   1 22
Mikko Eloranta        0  0  0  Even   0  0   1  5
Michael Nylander      1  0  1    -1   0  1   2 23
Andrew Cassels        0  0  0  Even   0  1   1 12
Derek Morris          0  3  3    +1   2  1   0 20
Jeff Jillson          0  0  0  Even   0  0   1 15
Joe Sakic             0  3  3    +1   0  2   0 20
Mark Recchi           0  1  1    +1   0  2   6 20
Joe Reekie            0  1  1    -1   0  1   1 21
Lukas Krajicek        0  0  0  Even   0  0   1 12
Bryan McCabe          1  0  1    +1   0  5   3 26
Patrice Brisebois     1  1  2    -1   0  5   1 26
Eric Landry           0  0  0  Even   0  1   1  5
Brian Willsie         0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  5
Craig Adams           0  0  0  Even   2  2   2  8
   
Buffalo

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Olli Jokinen          0  1  1  Even   0  2   1 17
Jeff Friesen          0  0  0    -1   0  2   0 23
Taylor Pyatt          1  0  1  Even   0  4   0 18
John LeClair          0  1  1  Even   0  3   2 22
Ivan Novoseltsev      0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  6
Matt Cullen           1  0  1  Even   0  3   0 19
Theoren Fleury        0  1  1    +1   2  4   2 23
Kim Johnsson          0  0  0    -1   2  3   0 25
Colin White           0  0  0    +1   5  0   2 24
Jason York            0  1  1  Even   0  0   0 19
Andrew Ference        0  0  0  Even   0  0   0 16
Dmitri Kalinin        1  0  1  Even   2  1   1 19
Mats Lindgren         0  0  0  Even   0  0   1  5
Richard Park          0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  0
Martin Erat           0  1  1  Even   0  2   0 16
Ricard Persson        0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  4
Ossi Vaananen         0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 12
Jochen Hecht          0  0  0  Even   0  1   1 24
   

Financial

Attendance: 14355
Net Profit: $749 331.00

Game Notes

Chris Osgood enters game at 15:56 of 3rd period
Simon Gagne scores a hat trick

Minor League Box Score

Montreal       1
Buffalo        5
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Aris Brimanis 9 (Kamil Piros, Michal Sykora)

Ivan Huml 14 (Shawn Horcoff, Garry Valk)
Jeremy Stevenson 15 (Rick Tocchet, Sergei Krivokrasov)
Sergei Krivokrasov 17 (Mikael Samuelsson, Tommy Westlund)
Kiril Safronov 3 (Yuri Butsayev, Dave Manson)
Jeremy Stevenson 16 (David Gosselin, J-Luc Grand-Pierre)

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Goalies
Montreal: Andrew Raycroft
Buffalo: Stephen Valiquette
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