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  FINAL
Buffalo 4, Montreal 1
 
  RECAP | BOX SCORE | SCORING

  1st 2nd 3rd TOTAL
Montreal 0 0 1 1
Buffalo 0 3 1 4

First Period: Scoring: None. Penalties: Ray, Buf (fighting major), 2:27; Cummins, Mon (fighting major), 2:27; Gilmour, Buf (roughing), 4:34; Weinrich, Mon (roughing), 4:34; Lachance, Mon (Obstr tripping), 4:40; Rucinsky, Mon (cross checking), 9:48; R Warrener, Buf (interference), 18:10; Rucinsky, Mon (Diving), 18:10.
Second Period: Scoring: 1, Buffalo, Mckee 3 (Varada, C Gratton), 1:44. 2, Buffalo, Afinogenov 16 (Sanderson, Smehlik), 10:13. 3, Buffalo, D Ward 10 (Smehlik), 14:57. Penalties: Smehlik, Buf (hooking), 12:50.
Third Period: Scoring: 4, Montreal, Rucinsky 23 (Belanger, Savage), 7:49. 5, Buffalo, Varada 7 (empty net) (Gilmour, Mckee), 19:54. Penalties: Tsyplakov, Buf (cross checking), 0:30.

SHOTS ON GOAL
Montreal 4 9 11 --24
Buffalo

15
13
6
--34

Power-play Conversions: Mon - 0 of 2, Buf - 0 of 2. Goalies: Montreal, Hackett (33 shots, 30 saves; record: 19-21-6). Buffalo, Hasek (24, 23; record: 10-9-5). A:18,690. Referees: Koharski, Shick. Linesmen: Nowak, Scapinello.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS
MontrealBuffalo
G A +/- Shots G A +/- Shots
Belanger
Bouillon
Brisebois
Cummins
Darby
J Lind
Lachance
Laflamme
Petrov
Poulin
Rivet
Rucinsky
Savage
Souray
Stevenson
Weinrich
Zholtok
Zubrus
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
-1
even
-2
-1
-1
-1
even
-2
even
-1
even
-1
-1
even
even
-3
-2
even
2
1
2
2
2
0
0
1
1
0
0
5
2
0
2
2
0
2
Afinogenov
Brown
C Gratton
D Ward
Gilmour
Holland
Mckee
Patrick
R Warrener
Rasmussen
Ray
S Barnes
Sanderson
Satan
Smehlik
Tsyplakov
Varada
Woolley
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
2
0
1
0
even
even
+1
+1
even
+1
+2
+2
even
+1
even
even
+1
even
+1
+2
+2
+1
2
3
2
2
2
1
1
1
2
3
0
0
3
2
2
3
2
3

 


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BOXSCORES
Buffalo 4
Montreal 1

St. Louis 2
Washington 1

Vancouver 3
Colorado 2