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

First Period: Scoring: 1, Buffalo, Satan 10 (Woolley, S Barnes), 15:44. 
Second Period: Scoring: 2, Washington, Dahlen 1 (power play) (Oates, Mironov), 3:53. 3, Buffalo, Satan 11 (Primeau, S Barnes), 7:03. 4, Buffalo, Brown 9 (power play) (Woolley, S Barnes), 8:16. 5, Washington, Dahlen 2 (Oates), 12:50. Penalties: Sarich, Buf (elbowing), 3:31; Ri Zednik, Was (high sticking), 7:46; Witt, Was (roughing), 8:32; Ray, Buf (roughing), 8:32; Klee, Was (hooking), 10:16.
Third Period: Scoring: 6, Buffalo, Brown 10 (Grosek, Ray), 3:17. 7, Buffalo, B Holzinger 4 (shorthanded) (Satan), 15:19. Penalties: Bondra, Was (high sticking), 8:51; Simon, Was (slashing), 11:28; Mckee, Buf (slashing), 14:32; Simon, Was (fighting major), 19:35; Ray, Buf (fighting major), 19:35.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Washington		5	8	16	--29
Buffalo		12	14	7	--33

Power-play Conversions: Was - 1 of 2, Buf - 1 of 4. Goalies: Washington, Kolzig (33 shots, 28 saves; record: 6-8-4). Buffalo, Biron (29, 27; record: 9-3-0). A:17,381. Referees: P Devorski, Watson. Linesmen: Amell, Driscoll.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Washington					Buffalo
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Baumgartner Black Bondra C Johansson Dahlen J Halpern Klee Konowalchuk Metropolit Mironov Nikolishin Oates Ri Zednik Sacco Simon Svejkovsky Tezikov Witt	0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0	-1 even -2 -1 -2 even even even even -3 -1 -1 even -1 -2 even -1 even	1 3 1 2 4 2 1 1 1 2 3 1 3 1 2 0 1 0	Afinogenov B Holzinger Brown Grosek Mckee Peca Primeau R Warrener Rasmussen Ray S Barnes Sanderson Sarich Satan Smehlik Varada Woolley Zhitnik	0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 2 0	even +1 +1 +1 +1 even +1 +1 -1 even +2 even +2 +3 even even +1 +1	2 1 5 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 2 5 0 1 1 6