1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Carolina	0	0	1	1
New Jersey	1	2	2	5

First Period: Scoring: 1, New Jersey, Brylin 1 (unassisted), 18:52. Penalties: Hatcher, Car (holding stick), 4:58; R Mckay, N.J. (Goalie interference), 6:59; Tanabe, Car (tripping), 10:56.
Second Period: Scoring: 2, New Jersey, Holik 1 (Madden), 1:25. 3, New Jersey, Holik 2 (Elias, S Stevens), 15:20. Penalties: Karpa, Car (roughing), 3:38; Malik, Car (tripping), 6:34.
Third Period: Scoring: 4, New Jersey, Sykora 1 (Elias), 5:06. 5, New Jersey, Elias 1 (Arnott, Niedermayer), 7:01. 6, Carolina, Vasicek 1 (Battaglia, J Daniels), 11:27. Penalties: T Stevenson, N.J. (Roughing), 3:03; Madden, N.J. (Holding stick), 8:18; Odonnell, N.J. (Roughing), 19:33; White, N.J. (Slashing), 20:00.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Carolina		4	7	7	--18
New Jersey		16	14	6	--36

Power-play Conversions: Car - 0 of 4, Njd - 0 of 4. Goalies: Carolina, Irbe (36 shots, 31 saves; record: 0-1-0). New Jersey, M Brodeur (18, 17; record: 1-0-0). A:19,040. Referees: Jackson, Stewart. Linesmen: Nelson, Schachte.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Carolina					New Jersey
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Battaglia Brindamour Dimaio Francis G Wesley Gelinas Hatcher J Daniels Kapanen Karpa Malik Oneill Ozolinsh S Pellerin T Westlund Tanabe Vasicek Willis	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0	1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	even -2 even -1 -1 -2 -2 even -3 -3 -1 -3 -2 even even +1 even -1	0 0 2 4 0 2 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 1	Arnott Brylin Elias Gomez Holik K Daneyko Madden Mogilny Nemchinov Niedermayer Odonnell Pandolfo R Mckay Rafalski S Stevens Sykora T Stevenson White	0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0	1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0	+2 +1 +3 even +2 +1 +1 +1 -1 +3 -1 -1 +1 +2 +3 +3 even even	2 2 3 4 6 1 5 1 1 1 0 1 1 4 0 3 0 1