1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Buffalo	1	1	0	2
Tampa Bay	1	2	1	4

First Period: Scoring: 1, Buffalo, Afinogenov 2 (R Warrener, Grosek), 0:45. 2, Tampa Bay, S Martins 3 (shorthanded) (Svoboda, Sillinger), 10:39. Penalties: Peca, Buf (high sticking), 3:44; Kubina, T.B. (Elbowing), 8:58; Zhitnik, Buf (high sticking), 14:31; Afinogenov, Buf (high sticking), 18:26.
Second Period: Scoring: 3, Buffalo, S Barnes 5 (Varada, Peca), 2:29. 4, Tampa Bay, Sillinger 5 (power play) (Richer, Tucker), 5:42. 5, Tampa Bay, Kubina 1 (Clymer, Sillinger), 18:27. Penalties: Sanderson, Buf (goalie interference), 3:59; Zhitnik, Buf (tripping), 11:19; Kubina, T.B. (Hooking), 16:20.
Third Period: Scoring: 6, Tampa Bay, Tucker 3 (Sillinger, Zyuzin), 5:46. Penalties: Sillinger, T.B. (Holding), 7:14.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Buffalo		9	6	15	--30
Tampa Bay		11	10	7	--28

Power-play Conversions: Buf - 0 of 3, Tam - 1 of 5. Goalies: Buffalo, Biron (28 shots, 24 saves; record: 6-2-0). Tampa Bay, D Cloutier (30, 28; record: 4-5-0). A:14,035. Referees: Heyer, Trottier. Linesmen: S Provost, Racicot.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Buffalo					Tampa Bay
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Afinogenov B Holzinger Brown Grosek Mckee Patrick Peca Primeau R Warrener Rasmussen Ray S Barnes Sanderson Sarich Satan Varada Woolley Zhitnik	1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0	-1 -1 -1 -1 -1 even +1 even even even even even -1 even even +1 even -1	3 4 3 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 2 4 0 4 2 0 2	Clymer Drulia Gratton Guolla Gusev Herbers Johansson Kesa Kubina Lecavalier Modin R Petrovicky Richer S Martins Sillinger Svoboda Tucker Zyuzin	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0	1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 1 1	+1 -1 -1 even even even -1 even +1 -1 even even even +3 +2 +1 even even	2 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 2 5 3 4 0