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BOX SCORE
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SCORING 
 
 
First Period: Scoring: 1, Washington, Simon 6 (Oates, Dahlen), 10:11.
Penalties: Simon, Was (cross checking), 5:39; Witt, Was (high sticking),
18:10.
Second Period: Scoring: 2, Washington, Gonchar 2 (power play) (Simon,
Dahlen), 2:59. 3, New Jersey, Madden 4 (Stevens, Rafalski), 4:41. 4,
Washington, J Halpern 4 (Konowalchuk, Ri Zednik), 12:32. 5, New Jersey,
Elias 3 (power play) (Sykora, Souray), 15:41. 6, New Jersey, Lemieux 9
(power play) (Arnott, Gomez), 17:09. 7, Washington, Gonchar 3 (Simon,
Oates), 18:17. Penalties: New Jersey bench, served by Gomez (too many men
on the ice), 2:26; Konowalchuk, Was (roughing), 4:09; K Daneyko, N.J.
(Slashing), 4:09; Witt, Was ( double high sticking minor), 13:50;
Washington bench, served by Black (abuse of officials), 15:51.
 Third Period: Scoring: 8, New Jersey, Madden 5 (Brylin, Oliwa), 3:58.
9, New Jersey, Elias 4 (Niedermayer, Sykora), 5:04. Penalties: Gomez, N.J.
(High sticking), 6:10; Holik, N.J. (Roughing), 13:58.
 
 SHOTS ON GOAL
 
| Washington |  | 4 | 12 | 5 | --21 |  
| New Jersey 
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 | 16 
 | 15 
 | 12 
 | --43 
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Power-play Conversions: Was - 1 of 3, Njd - 2 of 5.  Goalies:
Washington, Billington (43 shots, 38 saves; record: 3-2-0). New Jersey,
Terreri (21, 17; record: 1-3-0).  A:12,514.  Referees: Van Massenhoven,
Murphy. Linesmen: Kovachik, Morin.
 
 INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS
 
| Washington |  |  |  |  | New Jersey |  |  |  |  |  
|  | G | A | +/- | Shots |  | G | A | +/- | Shots |  
| Black C Johansson
 Dahlen
 Eagles
 Gonchar
 J Halpern
 Klee
 Konowalchuk
 Mironov
 Nikolishin
 Oates
 Reekie
 Ri Zednik
 Sacco
 Simon
 Svejkovsky
 Toms
 Witt
 
 | 0 0
 0
 0
 2
 1
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 1
 0
 0
 0
 
 | 0 0
 2
 0
 0
 0
 0
 1
 0
 0
 2
 0
 1
 0
 2
 0
 0
 0
 
 | -1 even
 +2
 even
 even
 even
 even
 +1
 even
 -1
 +1
 -1
 -1
 -1
 +1
 even
 even
 +1
 
 | 3 3
 0
 0
 3
 2
 1
 1
 1
 3
 0
 0
 0
 0
 3
 1
 0
 0
 
 | Arnott Brylin
 Elias
 Gomez
 Holik
 K Daneyko
 Lemieux
 Madden
 Mckay
 Nemchinov
 Niedermayer
 Odelein
 Oliwa
 Pandolfo
 Rafalski
 Souray
 Stevens
 Sykora
 
 | 0 0
 2
 0
 0
 0
 1
 2
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 
 | 1 1
 0
 1
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 1
 0
 1
 0
 1
 1
 1
 2
 
 | -1 +1
 -1
 even
 even
 even
 even
 +1
 even
 even
 even
 -1
 +1
 -1
 +1
 -2
 +2
 -1
 
 | 6 1
 3
 2
 5
 2
 3
 4
 3
 1
 0
 2
 0
 1
 1
 4
 2
 3
 
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 ALSO SEE
 NHL Scoreboard
 
 Washington Clubhouse
 
 New Jersey Clubhouse
 
 BOXSCORES
 Calgary 2
 Ottawa 1
 
Buffalo 2NY Islanders 2
 
Philadelphia 4Tampa Bay 0
 
Toronto 2Montreal 1
 
Carolina 4Atlanta 2
 
New Jersey 5Washington 4
 
Florida 5Pittsburgh 2
 
Colorado 2Nashville 2
 
St. Louis 4Boston 0
 
Dallas 4Vancouver 2
 
Chicago 8Los Angeles 4
 
  
  
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