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  FINAL
Buffalo 5, Florida 2
 
  RECAP | BOX SCORE | SCORING

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

First Period: Scoring: 1, Buffalo, S Barnes 15 (shorthanded) (Peca, Zhitnik), 18:09. Penalties: Ray, Buf (high sticking), 3:19; Spacek, Fla (high sticking), 4:02; Ray, Buf (interference, misconduct), 8:57; Simpson, Fla (roughing), 14:51; Rasmussen, Buf (holding), 17:57.
Second Period: Scoring: 2, Buffalo, Zhitnik 2 (Varada, Brown), 4:32. 3, Buffalo, Rasmussen 8 (Primeau, Mckee), 5:24. 4, Buffalo, S Barnes 16 (Satan), 12:45. 5, Florida, P Bure 43 (Spacek, R Svehla), 14:57. Penalties: Zhitnik, Buf (Obstr holding), 2:23; Zhitnik, Buf (Obstr tripping), 10:53; Boyle, Fla (holding), 11:44; Mellanby, Fla (interference), 14:38; Satan, Buf (tripping), 14:50; Smehlik, Buf (holding), 18:29.
Third Period: Scoring: 6, Florida, Simpson 1 (Mellanby, Sheppard), 6:15. 7, Buffalo, Smehlik 2 (Brown, B Holzinger), 8:10. Penalties: Zhitnik, Buf (interference), 11:18.

SHOTS ON GOAL
Buffalo 11 10 10 --31
Florida

8
11
13
--32

Power-play Conversions: Buf - 0 of 4, Fla - 0 of 8. Goalies: Buffalo, Hasek (32 shots, 30 saves; record: 6-6-4). Florida, Kidd (19, 15; record: 13-6-2), Vernon (12:45 of 2nd period, 12, 11). A:14,916. Referees: Degrace, B Mccreary. Linesmen: Seitz, S Provost.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS
BuffaloFlorida
G A +/- Shots G A +/- Shots
B Holzinger
Brown
D Ward
pierre
Mckee
Patrick
Peca
Primeau
Rasmussen
Ray
S Barnes
Sanderson
Satan
Smehlik
Tsyplakov
Varada
Woolley
Zhitnik
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
2
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
1
2
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
1
+1
+2
+1
-1
even
+1
+1
even
+1
-1
+2
even
+2
+2
even
even
even
+3
4
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
5
0
4
2
3
1
0
0
0
3
Boyle
Kozlov
Kvasha
Laus
Mellanby
Niedermayer
P Bure
Parrish
Pitlick
R Johnson
R Svehla
Sheppard
Simpson
Spacek
Stewart
Whitney
Wilson
Worrell
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
-2
-1
-2
even
+1
-1
-1
-2
even
+1
-1
-1
-1
-1
-1
even
-2
-1
0
2
2
0
1
1
7
2
1
0
3
1
4
1
0
2
2
3

 


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BOXSCORES
Buffalo 5
Florida 2

Washington 3
NY Islanders 2

Ottawa 1
Pittsburgh 1