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

First Period: Scoring: 1, Buffalo, Peca 18 (Tsyplakov, Varada), 15:37. Penalties: R Warrener, Buf (tripping), 3:33; Woolley, Buf (Obstr hooking), 8:29; Laflamme, Mon (roughing), 11:57.
Second Period: Scoring: None. Penalties: Hasek, Buf served by Afinogenov (Delay of game), 5:16; Zhitnik, Buf (hooking), 11:34; Gilmour, Buf (roughing), 17:11; Rivet, Mon (slashing), 17:11; Woolley, Buf (roughing), 17:47; Zubrus, Mon (roughing), 17:47.
Third Period: Scoring: 2, Buffalo, Varada 9 (empty net) (Peca), 19:33. Penalties: Zhitnik, Buf (high sticking), 7:48; Brown, Buf (Ob holding the stick), 10:07; Stevenson, Mon (interference), 12:13.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Buffalo		7	5	4	--16
Montreal		6	12	9	--27

Power-play Conversions: Buf - 0 of 2, Mon - 0 of 6. Goalies: Buffalo, Hasek (27 shots, 27 saves; record: 13-10-5). Montreal, Hackett (15, 14; record: 21-23-7). A:21,273. Referees: Mcgeough, Marouelli. Linesmen: G Devorski, Scapinello.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Buffalo					Montreal
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Afinogenov Brown C Gratton D Ward Gilmour Mckee Patrick Peca R Warrener Rasmussen S Barnes Sanderson Satan Smehlik Tsyplakov Varada Woolley Zhitnik	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0	even even even +1 even even +1 +2 +1 even even even even even +1 +2 +1 +1	1 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 3 1 2	Belanger Bouillon Brisebois Brunet Darby Dykhuis Lachance Laflamme Petrov Poulin Rivet Rucinsky S Corson Savage Souray Stevenson Zholtok Zubrus	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	even -1 -2 -1 even -1 even even -1 even even -1 -1 -1 even even -1 -1	2 1 1 0 1 4 0 1 0 1 2 2 1 2 2 2 3 2