1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
New Jersey	0	2	2	4
Florida	1	0	0	1

First Period: Scoring: 1, Florida, P Bure 1 (power play) (Kozlov, Parrish), 5:17. Penalties: Holik, N.J. (Interference), 4:15; White, N.J. (Roughing), 8:37; Laus, Fla (roughing), 8:37; R Svehla, Fla (interference), 12:30; Arnott, N.J. (Slashing), 12:30; Simpson, Fla (Obstr hooking), 14:24; Lemieux, N.J. (High sticking), 16:53; Laus, Fla (slashing), 19:53.
Second Period: Scoring: 2, New Jersey, Elias 1 (Arnott, Sykora), 4:26. 3, New Jersey, Niedermayer 2 (Mckay, White), 15:02. Penalties: Worrell, Fla (goalie interference), 6:36; K Daneyko, N.J. (Roughing), 10:42; Niedermayer, N.J. (High sticking), 12:42; Whitney, Fla (roughing), 20:00; Rafalski, N.J. (Roughing), 20:00.
Third Period: Scoring: 4, New Jersey, Nemchinov 1 (Elias, Rafalski), 16:12. 5, New Jersey, Nemchinov 2 (power play) (Lemieux, Elias), 18:03. Penalties: Simpson, Fla (elbowing), 17:52.

SHOTS ON GOAL

New Jersey		17	11	7	--35
Florida		12	14	10	--36

Power-play Conversions: Njd - 1 of 4, Fla - 1 of 4. Goalies: New Jersey, M Brodeur (36 shots, 35 saves; record: 4-0-0). Florida, Vernon (35, 31; record: 0-4-0). A:19,250. Referees: Gregson, Ohalloran. Linesmen: Mitton, Wheler.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

New Jersey					Florida
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Arnott Elias Gomez Holik K Daneyko Kelly Lemieux Madden Malakhov Mckay Mogilny Nemchinov Niedermayer Pandolfo Rafalski Stevens Sykora White	0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0	1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1	+1 +2 even even even even +2 even +1 +1 even +1 +1 even +1 +2 +1 +2	2 1 4 2 1 0 6 1 1 0 4 3 4 2 1 1 1 1	Barrie Hedican Hicks Kozlov Kvasha Laus Mellanby Niedermayer P Bure Parrish Pitlick R Svehla Sillinger Simpson Spacek Whitney Wilson Worrell	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	even even -1 -1 even even -2 -1 even -1 -1 -1 -1 even -2 even -2 -2	1 2 0 3 1 5 1 1 7 1 0 0 2 1 3 5 1 2