Whalers at Sabres

Shots

	1	2	3	OT	T
Whalers	13	8	8	0	29
Sabres	9	7	7	0	23

Goals

	1	2	3	OT	T
Whalers	4	0	1	0	5
Sabres	1	1	0	0	2

Scoring Summary

Period 1
1. WHALERS, WARD 3 (UNASSISTED), 04:00
2. SABRES, ELIAS 10 (MACKEY, DOMI), 05:39
3. WHALERS, ZHITNIK 2 (PROSPAL, MARCHMENT) (PP), 15:13
4. WHALERS, ODELEIN 2 (BUCHBERGER, ODGERS) (PP), 16:17
5. WHALERS, TURCOTTE 3 (PROSPAL), 16:37

PENALTIES: D. KHRISTICH BUF (HIGHSTICKING, Double Minor) 08:15, J. ODGERS HTD (BOARDING, Minor) 11:43, C. CHELIOS BUF (ELBOWING, Minor) 11:43, J. KYTE BUF (ELBOWING, Double Minor) 14:24, J. KYTE BUF (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 16:37

Period 2
6. SABRES, KING 2 (KYTE, KHRISTICH), 02:13

PENALTIES: J. CHYCHRUN HTD (FIGHTING) 14:59, R. DIRK BUF (FIGHTING) 14:59, S. MELLANBY HTD (FIGHTING) 18:23, J. KYTE BUF (FIGHTING) 18:23

Period 3
7. WHALERS, PROSPAL 1 (MELLANBY, ODELEIN), 08:08

PENALTIES: J. ODGERS HTD (ROUGHING, Minor) 01:18, M. JANSSENS HTD (ELBOWING, Minor) 09:34, L. ODELEIN HTD (CHARGING, Double Minor, Misconduct) 19:28

Goalie Statistics

Ron Tugnutt (HTD), 21 saves out of 23 shots, W, 1-5-0
Andre Racicot (BUF), 21 saves out of 26 shots, L, 3-3-1
Vincent Riendeau (BUF), 3 saves out of 3 shots

Power Play Conversions

Whalers 2 for 3
Sabres 0 for 3

Game Stars

1 - Lyle Odelein (HTD)
2 - Vaclav Prospal (HTD)
3 - Darren Turcotte (HTD)

Player Statistics

Whalers

G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Darren Turcotte 1 0 1 +1 0 4 1 17 Bryan Marchment 0 1 1 +1 0 1 2 24 Vaclav Prospal 1 2 3 +1 0 1 0 19 Matthias Norstrom 0 0 0 Even 0 0 2 19 Scott Mellanby 0 1 1 +2 5 3 5 23 Lyle Odelein 1 1 2 +2 14 4 3 24 Mike Rathje 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 7 Alexei Zhitnik 1 0 1 +1 0 3 5 17 Brad May 0 0 0 -1 0 1 3 14 Dixon Ward 1 0 1 +1 0 1 0 8 Glen Featherstone 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 12 Tomas Forslund 0 0 0 Even 0 1 1 20 Mark Janssens 0 0 0 +1 2 0 0 5 Kelly Buchberger 0 1 1 Even 0 1 2 23 Jeff Odgers 0 1 1 -1 4 1 4 13 Jeff Chychrun 0 0 0 -1 5 0 3 17 Yvon Corriveau 0 0 0 Even 0 4 2 20 Keith Primeau 0 0 0 -1 0 4 3 13

Sabres

G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Darius Kasparaitis 0 0 0 Even 0 1 2 22 Derek King 1 0 1 +1 0 2 1 20 Tie Domi 0 1 1 Even 0 2 2 19 Robert Dirk 0 0 0 -1 5 4 3 18 Jimmy Carson 0 0 0 +1 0 1 2 22 Michael Nylander 0 0 0 Even 0 1 1 8 Dave Babych 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 19 Jim Kyte 0 1 1 +1 11 1 0 20 David Mackey 0 1 1 Even 0 1 3 16 Dmitri Khristich 0 1 1 -1 4 0 1 22 Glenn Anderson 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 12 Jocelyn Lemieux 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 5 Shane Doan 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 14 Bob Boughner 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 15 Patrick Elias 1 0 1 -1 0 2 0 20 Jon Morris 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 10 Chris Chelios 0 0 0 +1 2 1 5 23 Jim Thomson 0 0 0 Even 0 0 2 6

Financial

Attendance: 9476
Net Profit: $716 386,00

Game Notes

Robert Dirk beats up Jeff Chychrun
Scott Mellanby beats up Jim Kyte
Vincent Riendeau enters game at 08:08 of 3rd period

Minor League Box Score

Saginaw        2
Rochester      6
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Jonas Hoglund 2 (Roman Oksiuta, Mike Needham)
David Saunders 3 (Daymond Langkow, C.J. Young)

Jason Botterill 2 (Darcy Tucker, Niklas Sundstrom)
Marty Murray 2 (Bruce Shoebottom, Ryan VandenBussche)
John McIntyre 2 (Steve Tuttle, Derek Morris)
Darcy Tucker 1 (Pavel Torgaev, Steve Graves)
Mike McHugh 1 (Mark Morrison, Juha Ylonen)
Niklas Sundstrom 1 (Simon Gagne, Manny Malhotra)

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Goalies
Saginaw: Marc Denis
Rochester: Norm Maracle
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