1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
New Jersey	1	0	1	2
Florida	2	1	2	5

First Period: Scoring: 1, New Jersey, Brylin 9 (K Daneyko, Pandolfo), 4:33. 2, Florida, Mellanby 17 (Hicks, Barrie), 15:39. 3, Florida, Parrish 25 (Wilson, Niedermayer), 17:01. Penalties: Sillinger, Fla (cross checking), 12:06; K Daneyko, N.J. (Roughing), 18:53.
Second Period: Scoring: 4, Florida, P Bure 56 (power play) (Spacek, Whitney), 0:22. Penalties: P Bure, Fla (hooking), 3:27; Holik, N.J. (Boarding), 20:00.
Third Period: Scoring: 5, New Jersey, Arnott 20 (Elias), 6:51. 6, Florida, Barrie 9 (Mellanby, Hicks), 13:47. 7, Florida, P Bure 57 (empty net) (Spacek, R Svehla), 19:59. Penalties: White, N.J. (Fighting major), 5:17; Worrell, Fla (fighting major), 5:17; Sutton, N.J. (Roughing), 10:06.

SHOTS ON GOAL

New Jersey		13	10	18	--41
Florida		14	9	5	--28

Power-play Conversions: Njd - 0 of 2, Fla - 1 of 3. Goalies: New Jersey, Terreri (27 shots, 23 saves; record: 2-9-0). Florida, Vernon (41, 39; record: 23-17-3). A:15,427. Referees: Fraser, Leggo. Linesmen: Collins, Gagnon.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

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