1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
NY Rangers	1	2	3	6
Buffalo	1	2	0	3

First Period: Scoring: 1, Buffalo, Peca 14 (Grosek, Afinogenov), 3:41. 2, NY Rangers, Fleury 14 (power play) (Graves, Schneider), 19:49. Penalties: Schneider, Nyr (cross checking), 1:41; Grosek, Buf (Ob holding the stick), 12:05; Hlavac, Nyr ( double high sticking minor), 13:16; Peca, Buf (Obstr tripping), 19:06.
Second Period: Scoring: 3, Buffalo, Peca 15 (Grosek, Satan), 1:00. 4, Buffalo, Peca 16 (unassisted), 5:14. 5, NY Rangers, York 20 (power play) (Graves, Fleury), 7:06. 6, NY Rangers, Nedved 19 (power play) (Johnsson, Hatcher), 9:02. Penalties: Afinogenov, Buf (hooking), 6:31; Smehlik, Buf ( double high sticking minor), 7:40; Sarich, Buf (holding), 12:39.
Third Period: Scoring: 7, NY Rangers, Daigle 7 (J Maclean, Kamensky), 5:21. 8, NY Rangers, Nedved 20 (unassisted), 14:01. 9, NY Rangers, Nedved 21 (empty net) (Hlavac), 18:49. Penalties: Quintal, Nyr (high sticking), 0:28; Dvorak, Nyr (holding), 7:23.

SHOTS ON GOAL

NY Rangers		9	14	6	--29
Buffalo		14	9	2	--25

Power-play Conversions: Nyr - 3 of 6, Buf - 0 of 5. Goalies: NY Rangers, Richter (25 shots, 22 saves; record: 20-22-7). Buffalo, Hasek (28, 23; record: 5-5-4). A:18,690. Referees: Larue, Van Massenhoven. Linesmen: Driscoll, Scapinello.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

New York					Buffalo
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Daigle Dvorak Fleury Graves Hatcher Hlavac J Maclean Johnsson Kamensky Knuble Lacroix Leetch Lefebvre Nedved Quintal Schneider Taylor York	1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1	0 0 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0	+1 even -1 -1 even +1 +1 even +1 even even even even even -1 even even -1	1 1 4 4 2 1 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 5 2 0 0 3	Afinogenov B Holzinger Brown D Ward Grosek Mckee Patrick Peca Rasmussen S Barnes Sanderson Sarich Satan Smehlik Tsyplakov Varada Woolley Zhitnik	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0	even -1 even -1 +2 even even +2 -1 -1 -1 even +2 even even -1 even -1	0 0 0 0 2 0 2 4 1 0 1 1 6 2 2 1 0 3