1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Buffalo	2	0	3	5
Pittsburgh	1	1	0	2

First Period: Scoring: 1, Buffalo, Dumont 3 (Audette, S Barnes), 1:28. 2, Pittsburgh, Straka 2 (power play) (Lemieux, A Morozov), 11:10. 3, Buffalo, Brown 4 (shorthanded) (Satan), 19:13. Penalties: Corbet, Pit (holding), 6:12; Zhitnik, Buf (cross checking), 9:49; Zhitnik, Buf (holding), 18:04.
Second Period: Scoring: 4, Pittsburgh, Laukkanen 2 (Jagr, Lemieux), 5:24. Penalties: Andreychuk, Buf (roughing), 3:29; M Bergevin, Pit (interference), 3:29.
Third Period: Scoring: 5, Buffalo, S Barnes 2 (Audette, Woolley), 4:44. 6, Buffalo, Tsyplakov 1 (Varada, Zhitnik), 14:24. 7, Buffalo, S Barnes 3 (power play) (Heinze, Dumont), 18:09. Penalties: Straka, Pit (elbowing), 16:20.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Buffalo		8	9	11	--28
Pittsburgh		8	6	3	--17

Missed penalty shots: Straka, Pit, 8:07 third. Power-play Conversions: Buf - 1 of 2, Pit - 1 of 2. Goalies: Buffalo, Hasek (17 shots, 15 saves; record: 6-4-0). Pittsburgh, Hedberg (28, 23; record: 6-4-0). A:17,148. Referees: Koharski, Pollock. Linesmen: Morin, Racicot.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Buffalo					Pittsburgh
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Afinogenov Andreychuk Audette Brown C Gratton Dumont Gilmour Heinze Kalinin Patrick S Barnes Satan Smehlik Tsyplakov Varada Warrener Woolley Zhitnik	0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0	0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1	even even +2 +2 even +2 even even +1 even +1 even +2 +1 +1 +2 +1 even	4 0 2 4 0 4 1 0 2 1 3 3 1 1 2 0 0 0	A Morozov Boughner Corbet Ference Hrdina I Moran Jagr Jonsson Kasparaitis Kovalev Lacouture Lang Laukkanen Lemieux M Bergevin Primeau Stevens Straka	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1	1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0	-2 +1 even -2 -2 -1 -1 even -1 -1 even -1 +1 -2 -2 even -1 -2	2 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 3