1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Buffalo	0	0	1	1
St. Louis	1	2	1	4

First Period: Scoring: 1, St Louis, Drake 3 (Young, Macinnis), 0:57. Penalties: Boulton, Buf (fighting major), 2:13; Low, Stl (fighting major), 2:13; C Gratton, Buf (hooking), 4:26; Handzus, Stl (goalie interference), 15:37.
Second Period: Scoring: 2, St Louis, Drake 4 (Young, P Turgeon), 0:38. 3, St Louis, S Hill 1 (Conroy), 15:51. Penalties: Mayers, Stl (slashing), 6:32; Taylor, Buf (holding), 9:15; Boulton, Buf (unsportsmanlike conduct), 16:01; Low, Stl (holding), 16:01; Khavanov, Stl (hooking), 18:03.
Third Period: Scoring: 4, Buffalo, Varada 3 (power play) (Kalinin, Patrick), 11:44. 5, St Louis, Demitra 8 (empty net) (unassisted), 19:12. Penalties: Salvador, Stl (tripping), 10:02; Mckee, Buf (boarding), 19:45.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Buffalo		9	3	9	--21
St Louis		14	13	12	--39

Power-play Conversions: Buf - 1 of 4, Stl - 0 of 3. Goalies: Buffalo, Biron (38 shots, 35 saves; record: 0-1-0). St Louis, Johnson (21, 20; record: 7-0-0). A:19,921. Referees: Degrace, S Walkom. Linesmen: Schachte, Mach.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Buffalo					St Louis
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Afinogenov Andreychuk Boulton Brown C Gratton Dumont Gilmour Hamel Kalinin Mckee Patrick Rasmussen Satan Smehlik Taylor Varada Woolley Zhitnik	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	-1 even even -3 even -1 -1 even -3 even even -1 -2 even -1 -3 -1 -4	2 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 3 0 3 0 0 1 3 3 1	Bartecko Conroy Demitra Drake Eastwood Handzus Hecht Khavanov Low M Bergevin Macinnis Mayers Nash P Turgeon Pronger S Hill Salvador Young	0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0	0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2	even +1 +1 +2 +1 +1 +1 even even +1 +3 even +1 +2 +1 +1 +2 +2	1 3 2 5 1 0 8 1 0 0 4 2 3 2 0 1 0 6