Canadiens at Sabres

Shots
123OTT
Canadiens 8 10 8 2 28
Sabres 7 10 8 0 25
Goals
123OTT
Canadiens 3 3 0 1 7
Sabres 2 2 2 0 6


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. CANADIENS, SALEI 5 (SHANNON, BARNABY), 07:02
2. CANADIENS, MARLEAU 17 (HEWARD, ELIAS), 07:56
3. SABRES, TKACHUK 29 (CHAMBERS, JANNEY) (PP), 09:42
4. SABRES, TKACHUK 30 (MORRISON, CHAMBERS) (PP), 13:45
5. CANADIENS, MARLEAU 18 (SAVARD, BOYLE) (PP), 19:34

PENALTIES: M. BARNABY MTL (HIGHSTICKING, Major) 08:43, R. SALEI MTL (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 11:53, B. HOULDER BUF (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 19:19

Period 2
6. SABRES, TKACHUK 31 (JANNEY, HAWGOOD) (PP), 08:04
7. CANADIENS, SAVARD 12 (ELIAS, MARLEAU), 09:58
8. SABRES, BRUNETTE 16 (BRIND'AMOUR, AMONTE), 10:56
9. CANADIENS, ELIAS 29 (POTI, RENBERG) (PP), 13:04
10. CANADIENS, RENBERG 15 (REINPRECHT, PELLERIN), 19:05

PENALTIES: R. BROWN MTL (BOARDING, Minor) 07:54, K. TKACHUK BUF (CHARGING, Minor) 11:36, C. KILGER MTL (ELBOWING, Minor) 14:03, S. CHAMBERS BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 14:03, F. BOUILLON MTL (ROUGHING, Minor) 14:39, S. WALKER BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 16:35

Period 3
11. SABRES, BRIND'AMOUR 29 (AMONTE, JONSSON), 07:19
12. SABRES, TKACHUK 32 (JANNEY, CHAMBERS) (PP), 15:55

PENALTIES: M. BARNABY MTL (HOOKING, Minor, Game Misconduct) 14:55 (Served by Francis Bouillon)

Overtime
13. CANADIENS, SHANNON 8 (MARLEAU, HORCOFF), 00:27



Goalie Statistics

Byron Dafoe (MTL), 5 saves out of 6 shots, W, 14-22-3
Martin Biron (MTL), 14 saves out of 19 shots
Kirk McLean (BUF), 9 saves out of 11 shots, L, 20-6-2
Arturs Irbe (BUF), 12 saves out of 17 shots

Power Play Conversions

Canadiens 2 for 3
Sabres 4 for 5

Game Stars

1 - Patrick Marleau (MTL)
2 - Keith Tkachuk (BUF)
3 - Patrik Elias (MTL)

Player Statistics

Canadiens

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Patrik Elias          1  2  3    +1   0  3   0 23
Todd White            0  0  0  Even   0  0   1  9
Patrick Marleau       2  2  4    +2   0  2   2 21
Francis Bouillon      0  0  0    +2   2  0   1 17
Rob Brown             0  0  0  Even   2  0   0  4
Jamie Heward          0  1  1    +1   0  4   3 24
Darrin Shannon        1  1  2    +2   0  2   2 10
Chad Kilger           0  0  0  Even   2  0   1  9
Tom Poti              0  1  1  Even   0  0   1 21
Steven Reinprecht     0  1  1  Even   0  2   3 18
Dan Boyle             0  1  1    +1   0  0   2 26
Jason Smith           0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 20
Marc Savard           1  1  2    +1   0  1   1 23
Matthew Barnaby       0  1  1    +1  17  1   1  9
Mikael Renberg        1  1  2  Even   0  3   3 17
Ruslan Salei          1  0  1    +2   2  3   0 13
Scott Pellerin        0  1  1  Even   0  6   0 17
Shawn Horcoff         0  1  1    +2   0  0   0 11
   
Sabres

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Keith Tkachuk         4  0  4    -4   2  4   2 23
Scott Walker          0  0  0    -4   2  1   2 22
Kenny Jonsson         0  1  1    +1   0  2   0 22
Craig Janney          0  3  3    -3   0  3   2 22
Tony Amonte           0  2  2  Even   0  2   4 19
Bill Houlder          0  0  0    -3   2  2   1 24
Bill Berg             0  0  0  Even   0  0   4 17
Andrew Brunette       1  0  1    +1   0  2   0 19
Brendan Morrison      0  1  1  Even   0  2   1  7
Kevin Hatcher         0  0  0  Even   0  2   1 20
Ulf Dahlen            0  0  0  Even   0  0   0 12
Shayne Corson         0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 11
Rod Brind'Amour       1  1  2    +1   0  1   3 22
Shawn Chambers        0  3  3  Even   2  0   1 18
Joe Sacco             0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  4
Wes Walz              0  0  0  Even   0  0   2 11
Greg Hawgood          0  1  1    -4   0  3   0 20
Troy Mallette         0  0  0  Even   0  0   2  4
   

Financial

Attendance: 15217
Net Profit: $844 544,00

Game Notes

Kirk McLean enters game at 13:04 of 2nd period
Byron Dafoe enters game at 07:19 of 3rd period
Matthew Barnaby ejected at 14:55 of the 3rd Period
Keith Tkachuk scores a hat trick

Minor League Box Score

Boatmen!!      0
Bombers        6
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Denis Tsygurov 4 (Jean-François Quintin, James Black)
Todd Ewen 9 (Valeri Karpov, Brad Aitken)
Denis Tsygurov 5 (Iain Fraser, Marko Jantunen)
Iain Fraser 22 (David Williams, Brian Holzinger)
John McIntyre 7 (Yves Racine, Brad Miller)
Denis Tsygurov 6 (Kevin Todd, Scott Thomas)

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Goalies
Boatmen!!: Mike Bales
Bombers: Chris Mason
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