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

First Period: Scoring: 1, Montreal, Darby 5 (Petrov, Rivet), 11:07. Penalties: Rucinsky, Mon (tripping), 3:52; Woolley, Buf (interference), 8:18; Rucinsky, Mon (high sticking), 15:37.
Second Period: Scoring: 2, Buffalo, Woolley 6 (Afinogenov, S Barnes), 5:02. 3, Montreal, T Linden 12 (power play) (Zholtok, Brisebois), 12:30. 4, Buffalo, Afinogenov 14 (power play) (C Gratton, S Barnes), 15:42. Penalties: Brown, Buf (holding), 11:06; T Linden, Mon (holding stick), 14:37; Rivet, Mon (hooking), 18:56.
Third Period: Scoring: 5, Montreal, Savage 14 (Brisebois, Zholtok), 9:40. Penalties: Weinrich, Mon (roughing), 3:53; Varada, Buf (roughing), 3:53.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Montreal		6	6	8	--20
Buffalo		6	15	10	--31

Power-play Conversions: Mon - 1 of 2, Buf - 1 of 4. Goalies: Montreal, Hackett (31 shots, 29 saves; record: 18-19-5). Buffalo, Hasek (20, 17; record: 7-8-5). A:18,690. Referee: Koharski. Linesmen: Brisebois, Kovachik.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Montreal					Buffalo
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Bouillon Brisebois Brunet Darby Dykhuis Koivu Petrov Poulin Rivet Rucinsky S Corson Savage Souray Stevenson T Linden Weinrich Zholtok	0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0	0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2	even +1 even +1 -1 even +2 even +1 -1 even +2 +2 -1 -1 even +1	0 2 0 2 0 1 4 0 1 0 2 3 0 1 1 1 1	Afinogenov Brown C Gratton D Ward Hamel Holland Mckee Patrick Rasmussen Ray S Barnes Satan Smehlik Taylor Tsyplakov Varada Woolley	1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1	1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0	-1 -1 -1 even -1 even -1 even even even +1 even even even even even even	4 4 3 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 3 1 6 1