1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Buffalo	0	2	1	3
Montreal	0	1	1	2

First Period: Scoring: None. Penalties: Brunet, Mon (cross checking), 13:27; C Gratton, Buf (tripping), 14:39.
Second Period: Scoring: 1, Buffalo, Andreychuk 6 (Hamel, Ray), 11:05. 2, Montreal, Robidas 2 (Petrov, T Linden), 14:17. 3, Buffalo, Patrick 1 (Satan), 19:53. Penalties: Rucinsky, Mon (boarding), 6:34.
Third Period: Scoring: 4, Buffalo, Hamel 3 (Varada, Patrick), 7:30. 5, Montreal, T Linden 5 (power play) (Zubrus, Brisebois), 19:21. Penalties: Rucinsky, Mon (high sticking), 0:13; Dumont, Buf (hooking), 12:43; Brown, Buf (slashing), 18:06; Varada, Buf (elbowing), 18:33.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Buffalo		9	9	4	--22
Montreal		8	12	12	--32

Power-play Conversions: Buf - 0 of 3, Mon - 1 of 4. Goalies: Buffalo, Biron (32 shots, 30 saves; record: 2-1-0). Montreal, Theodore (22, 19; record: 6-9-2). A:18,754. Referees: Joannette, S Walkom. Linesmen: Gauthier, Champoux.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Buffalo					Montreal
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Afinogenov Andreychuk Brown C Gratton Dumont Hamel Kalinin Patrick Rasmussen Ray S Barnes Satan Smehlik Tsyplakov Varada Warrener Woolley Zhitnik	0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0	even +2 even even +1 +1 -1 +3 even even +1 +1 even -1 +1 -1 +2 +1	1 3 1 1 1 4 1 3 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 1	Bashkirov Brisebois Brunet Darby Dykhuis Laflamme Landry Markov Petrov Poulin Robidas Rucinsky Savage Stock T Linden Weinrich Zholtok Zubrus	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0	0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1	even even even -1 even -1 -1 -1 +1 even -1 -2 -1 even even -1 even -2	1 10 3 1 2 0 1 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 1 5