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

First Period: Scoring: 1, New Jersey, Sykora 9 (unassisted), 13:06. Penalties: Sarich, Buf (roughing), 1:57; Gomez, N.J. (Roughing), 1:57; Afinogenov, Buf (Obstr hooking), 2:40; Oliwa, N.J. (Roughing), 10:38; Stevens, N.J. (Obstr tripping), 17:41.
Second Period: Scoring: 2, New Jersey, Madden 7 (shorthanded) (unassisted), 12:17. 3, New Jersey, Elias 7 (Arnott, Stevens), 16:36. Penalties: Oliwa, N.J. (Roughing), 9:01; Sykora, N.J. (Hooking), 11:22; B Holzinger, Buf (Ob holding the stick), 17:26; Oliwa, N.J. (Boarding), 19:49; Ray, Buf (misconduct, game misconduct), 20:00; Stevens, N.J. Served by Gomez (abuse of officials, misconduct, game misconduct), 1:19.
Third Period: Scoring: 4, Buffalo, Sanderson 6 (Varada, Peca), 10:11. 5, New Jersey, Sykora 10 (empty net) (Niedermayer), 19:54. Penalties: Brown, Buf (Obstr holding), 5:51; D Ward, Buf (slashing), 11:35; Morrison, N.J. (Holding), 13:21.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Buffalo		4	7	9	--20
New Jersey		9	14	9	--32

Power-play Conversions: Buf - 0 of 7, Njd - 0 of 4. Goalies: Buffalo, Biron (23 shots, 20 saves; record: 13-8-1), Roloson (start of 3rd, 8, 8). New Jersey, M Brodeur (20, 19; record: 19-9-4). A:16,248. Referee: Faucette. Linesmen: Collins, Seitz.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Buffalo					New Jersey
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Afinogenov B Holzinger Brown Campbell D Ward Grosek Mckee Patrick Peca R Warrener Ray S Barnes Sanderson Sarich Satan Varada Woolley Zhitnik	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0	-1 -1 -3 -1 even -2 -1 even even -1 even -2 +1 -1 -3 +1 -1 -1	2 1 3 2 1 2 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 0 1 1	Arnott Elias Gomez Holik K Daneyko Lemieux Madden Mckay Morrison Niedermayer Odelein Oliwa Pandolfo Pederson Rafalski Souray Stevens Sykora	0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2	1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0	+3 +3 even -1 +2 even +1 -1 +1 +1 -1 even -1 even +1 +1 +2 +3	4 2 1 4 1 0 2 1 2 2 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 6