Montreal at Buffalo

Shots
123OTT
Montreal 14 7 11 0 32
Buffalo 7 7 10 0 24
Goals
123OTT
Montreal 1 1 0 0 2
Buffalo 0 0 3 0 3


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. MONTREAL, KOIVU 9 (KOVALEV, STUART), 15:31



Period 2
2. MONTREAL, KOVALEV 10 (REDDEN, MALONE) (PP), 19:06

PENALTIES: S. HANNAN Buf (BOARDING, Minor) 19:03

Period 3
3. BUFFALO, HECHT 7 (AFINOGENOV, CONNOLLY), 01:23
4. BUFFALO, DRURY 8 (DUMONT, BERGERON), 02:53
5. BUFFALO, AFINOGENOV 12 (CONNOLLY, REGEHR), 03:25

PENALTIES: J. WARD Mtl (ROUGHING, Minor) 05:02, S. HANNAN Buf (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 13:48

Goalie Statistics

Jose Theodore (Mtl), 21 saves out of 24 shots, L, 13-9-1
Mika Noronen (Buf), 30 saves out of 32 shots, W, 5-5-1

Power Play Conversions

Montreal 1 for 2
Buffalo 0 for 1

Game Stars

1 - Maxim Afinogenov (Buf)
2 - Mika Noronen (Buf)
3 - Alexei Kovalev (Mtl)

Player Statistics

Montreal

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Francis Bouillon      0  0  0  Even   0  1   1 16
Patrice Brisebois     0  0  0  Even   0  0   2 13
Jan Bulis             0  0  0  Even   0  1   3 10
Sheldon Souray        0  0  0    -1   0  3   2 19
Brad Stuart           0  1  1  Even   0  0   3 21
Saku Koivu            1  0  1  Even   0  6   0 22
Alexei Kovalev        1  1  2  Even   0  5   1 24
Teemu Selanne         0  0  0    -2   0  0   1 21
Craig Rivet           0  0  0    -1   0  0   0  6
Niklas Sundstrom      0  0  0    -1   0  2   0 11
Alyn McCauley         0  0  0  Even   0  0   0 13
Zdeno Chara           0  0  0    -1   0  4   4 24
Martin St.Louis       0  0  0    -1   0  3   0 18
Ryan Malone           0  1  1  Even   0  1   2 21
Mike Modano           0  0  0    -1   0  1   0 18
Jason Ward            0  0  0  Even   2  1   1 13
Wade Redden           0  1  1    -1   0  3   1 21
Steve Begin           0  0  0    -1   0  1   0  7
   
Buffalo

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Maxim Afinogenov      1  1  2    +2   0  4   0 22
Daniel Briere         0  0  0  Even   0  3   1 25
Curtis Brown          0  0  0  Even   0  1   1 16
Tim Connolly          0  2  2    +2   0  4   0 21
Chris Drury           1  0  1  Even   0  2   1 22
Jochen Hecht          1  0  1    +2   0  2   1 21
Alexander Frolov      0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 10
Taylor Pyatt          0  0  0  Even   0  0   0 10
Robyn Regehr          0  1  1    +2   0  1   2 23
Dmitri Kalinin        0  0  0    +1   0  1   3 24
Marcel Hossa          0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  0
Scott Hannan          0  0  0  Even   4  0   2 24
J.P. Dumont           0  1  1  Even   0  3   0 23
Martin Erat           0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  6
Andreas Johansson     0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  0
Teppo Numminen        0  0  0    +1   0  1   0 15
Marc-André Bergeron   0  1  1  Even   0  1   0 20
Jeff Jillson          0  0  0  Even   0  0   3 12
   

Financial

Attendance: 14850
Net Profit: $935 550,00

Game Notes

Jan Bulis injured at 04:27 of the 3rd Period

Minor League Box Score

Hamilton       2
Providence     2
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Brent Burns 1 (Mikko Koivu, Sylvain Blouin)
Marek Svatos 7 (unknown, Corey Locke)

Denis Hamel 15 (Eric Boulton, Clarke MacArthur)
Radoslav Hecl 2 (Derek Roy, Jason Botterill)

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Goalies
Hamilton: Jaroslav Halak
Providence: unknown
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