Sabres at Canucks

Shots
123OTT
Sabres 9 11 5 0 25
Canucks 13 12 12 0 37
Goals
123OTT
Sabres 1 1 0 0 2
Canucks 6 4 1 0 11


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. CANUCKS, WHITNEY 17 (HULSE, SMOLINSKI), 01:17
2. CANUCKS, AUCOIN 13 (HEJDUK), 02:25
3. SABRES, WIEMER 21 (BACKES), 04:29
4. CANUCKS, WHITNEY 18 (BURE, RIVET) (PP), 07:27
5. CANUCKS, YELLE 12 (AUCOIN, COLE) (PP), 08:06
6. CANUCKS, WHITNEY 19 (BURE, HAMRLIK) (PP), 14:04
7. CANUCKS, RIVET 15 (DEMITRA, HEJDUK), 20:00

PENALTIES: D. LING BUF (ELBOWING, Double Minor) 06:19, A. KOVALEV VAN (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 09:26, L. SOROCHAN BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 13:10, D. LING BUF (HOOKING, Minor, Misconduct) 15:07, R. HAMRLIK VAN (HOOKING, Minor) 15:07

Period 2
8. CANUCKS, DEMITRA 22 (HEJDUK, KOVALEV) (PP), 03:06
9. CANUCKS, DEMITRA 23 (AUCOIN, HULSE) (PP), 04:12
10. CANUCKS, BURE 27 (KOVALEV, HAMRLIK), 04:49
11. CANUCKS, AUCOIN 14 (KOVALEV), 13:43
12. SABRES, LADD 12 (LING, MANLOW), 15:58

PENALTIES: D. BACKES BUF (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 02:55, M. SMITH BUF (BOARDING, Minor) 03:13, G. PARROS BUF (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 09:45, J. DOIG BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 10:21, J. DOIG BUF (HOOKING, Minor) 12:33, R. HAMRLIK VAN (ROUGHING, Minor) 12:46, J. DOIG BUF (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 18:23

Period 3
13. CANUCKS, SMOLINSKI 3 (BURE, COLE), 14:19

PENALTIES: M. JOHNSON BUF (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 00:55, M. SMITH BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 01:47, M. SAMUELSSON VAN (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 05:38, M. SMITH BUF (HOOKING, Minor) 11:24, M. LAMOTHE BUF (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 14:55 (Served by Eric Manlow), J. WIEMER BUF (BOARDING, Minor) 15:28, R. HAMRLIK VAN (ROUGHING, Minor) 19:17, J. RUUTU BUF (HOOKING, Minor) 19:35, C. RIVET VAN (HOOKING, Minor) 19:35

Goalie Statistics

Patrick Labrecque (BUF), 6 saves out of 11 shots, L, 6-21-3
Marc Lamothe (BUF), 20 saves out of 26 shots
Nikolai Khabibulin (VAN), 23 saves out of 25 shots, W, 34-14-1

Power Play Conversions

Sabres 0 for 4
Canucks 5 for 13

Game Stars

1 - Pavel Bure (VAN)
2 - Pavol Demitra (VAN)
3 - Ray Whitney (VAN)

Player Statistics

Sabres

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Colin White           0  0  0    -3   0  1   4 26
Peter Worrell         0  0  0    -1   0  0   2 15
Dennis Seidenberg     0  0  0    -1   0  0   0 24
David Backes          0  1  1    +1   2  3   1  7
Andrew Ladd           1  0  1    -3   0  2   0 16
Bob Boughner          0  0  0  Even   0  2   1 17
Mark Smith            0  0  0    -1   6  1   1 15
Jason Doig            0  0  0  Even   6  0   0 16
Dale Purinton         0  0  0    -1   0  1   2 13
Jarko Ruutu           0  0  0    -3   2  0   1 16
Chris Dingman         0  0  0  Even   0  4   2 12
Jason Wiemer          1  0  1    -2   2  1   5 26
Eric Manlow           0  1  1    -1   0  6   3 20
Matt Johnson          0  0  0  Even   2  2   2 13
Georges Parros        0  0  0  Even   2  1   0  9
Lee Sorochan          0  0  0    -3   2  0   3 18
David Ling            0  1  1    -1  16  1   1 15
   
Canucks

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Mark Parrish          0  0  0    -1   0  0   2  8
Pavol Demitra         2  1  3    +2   0  5   3 21
Roman Hamrlik         0  2  2    +3   6  2   1 22
Erik Cole             0  2  2    +1   0  3   0 17
Bryan Smolinski       1  1  2    +2   0  3   0 20
Craig Rivet           1  1  2  Even   2  2   1 22
Sergei Zubov          0  0  0    +1   0  2   0 23
Alexei Kovalev        0  3  3    +2   2  1   2 21
Adrian Aucoin         2  2  4    +1   0  3   0 24
Cale Hulse            0  2  2    +3   0  1   2 20
Ruslan Salei          0  0  0  Even   0  3   1 15
Milan Hejduk          0  3  3    +3   0  0   1 17
Stéphane Yelle        1  0  1  Even   0  2   1 10
Daymond Langkow       0  0  0  Even   0  1   2  9
Ray Whitney           3  0  3    +1   0  5   2 22
Pavel Bure            1  3  4    +3   0  4   0 21
Mikael Samuelsson     0  0  0    -1   2  0   0  4
   

Financial

Attendance: 13908
Net Profit: $688 446,00

Game Notes

Marc Lamothe enters game at 14:04 of 1st period
Ray Whitney scores a hat trick

Minor League Box Score

Bombers        4
Wolverines     2
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Drew Stafford 21 (Patrick Fischer, Chris Campoli)
Kristian Kudroc 10 (Matt Keith, Nathan LaFayette)
Drew Stafford 22 (Radovan Somik, Steve Eminger)
Ronald Petrovicky 14 (Brett Lebda, Tony Salmelainen)

Alexander Korolyuk 18 (Mattias Timander, Jiri Novotny)
unknown (Denis Arkhipov, Martin Strbak)

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Goalies
Bombers: Neil Little
Wolverines: Andrew Raycroft
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