Buffalo at Carolina

Period 1
1. CAROLINA, WILLIS 20 (FRANCIS, WESLEY) (SH), 07:26

PENALTIES: R. FRANCIS CRL (HOOKING, Minor) 01:27, C. GRATTON BUF (BOARDING, Minor) 05:39, D. TANABE CRL (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 05:39, G. WESLEY CRL (HOOKING, Minor) 07:17, C. CHELIOS BUF (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 10:10, S. KAPANEN CRL (BOARDING, Minor) 12:32

Period 2
2. BUFFALO, GRATTON 17 (UNASSISTED) (PP), 04:25
3. BUFFALO, PATRICK 3 (SMEHLIK, PYATT), 12:42
4. CAROLINA, BRIND'AMOUR 15 (O'NEILL, KAPANEN), 14:14

PENALTIES: A. WARD CRL (CHECKING-FROM-BEHIND, Major, Game Misconduct) 00:33 (Served by Jeff O'Neill), C. DINGMAN CRL (ROUGHING, Minor) 06:51, D. TKACZUK BUF (BOARDING, Minor) 07:29, M. CZERKAWSKI BUF (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 17:58, S. WILLIS CRL (CHARGING, Minor) 17:58, V. TSYPLAKOV BUF (BOARDING, Minor) 19:58

Period 3
5. BUFFALO, KJELLBERG 11 (UNASSISTED), 05:39

PENALTIES: M. GELINAS CRL (ELBOWING, Minor) 10:19, L. ODELEIN BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 13:05, E. RASMUSSEN BUF (CROSS-CHECKING, Major) 14:59, J. PATRICK BUF (BOARDING, Minor) 15:41, D. GILMOUR BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 17:27, R. FRANCIS CRL (BOARDING, Minor) 19:55

Goalie Statistics

Bob Essensa (BUF), 26 saves out of 28 shots, W, 21-20-6
Arturs Irbe (CRL), 35 saves out of 38 shots, L, 22-17-6

Power Play Conversions

Buffalo 1 for 7
Carolina 0 for 7

Game Stars

1 - Bob Essensa (BUF)
2 - Rod Brind'Amour (CRL)
3 - James Patrick (BUF)

Player Statistics

Buffalo G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Alexei Zhitnik 0 0 0 Even 0 4 3 26 Patric Kjellberg 1 0 1 Even 0 2 0 21 Chris Gratton 1 0 1 Even 2 3 1 18 Chris Chelios 0 0 0 Even 2 2 4 22 Daniel Tkaczuk 0 0 0 +1 2 1 1 12 Lyle Odelein 0 0 0 Even 2 0 3 8 Doug Gilmour 0 0 0 Even 2 2 0 12 Erik Rasmussen 0 0 0 +1 5 3 2 13 James Patrick 1 0 1 +1 2 2 0 13 Jason Woolley 0 0 0 Even 0 1 1 22 Mariusz Czerkawski 0 0 0 Even 2 1 0 22 Miroslav Satan 0 0 0 Even 0 4 1 21 Rhett Warrener 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 13 Richard Smehlik 0 1 1 +1 0 2 1 8 Stu Barnes 0 0 0 Even 0 4 0 17 Rob Zamuner 0 0 0 Even 0 3 0 20 Vladimir Tsyplakov 0 0 0 Even 2 4 1 5 Taylor Pyatt 0 1 1 +1 0 0 0 10

Carolina G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Darren Langdon 0 0 0 Even 0 3 0 10 Lubomir Sekeras 0 0 0 +1 0 1 0 16 David Tanabe 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 22 Glen Wesley 0 1 1 -2 2 2 4 25 Jeff O'Neill 0 1 1 +1 0 4 1 20 Darby Hendrickson 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 11 Kevin Hatcher 0 0 0 Even 0 0 2 22 Marek Malik 0 0 0 +1 0 3 1 20 Martin Gelinas 0 0 0 -2 2 0 1 21 Niclas Wallin 0 0 0 Even 0 1 0 9 Rod Brind'Amour 1 0 1 +1 0 5 5 19 Ron Francis 0 1 1 -2 4 1 0 20 Sami Kapanen 0 1 1 +1 2 1 3 20 Bryan Smolinski 0 0 0 Even 0 1 0 11 Aaron Ward 0 0 0 Even 15 0 0 7 Shane Willis 1 0 1 -2 2 3 1 18 Tommy Westlund 0 0 0 Even 0 1 0 9 Chris Dingman 0 0 0 Even 2 1 1 8

Financial

Attendance: 12897
Net Profit: $677 092,00

Game Notes

Aaron Ward ejected at 00:33 of the 2nd Period

Minor League Box Score

Rochester      6
Lowell         2
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Mike Eastwood 7 (unknown, Chris Taylor)
Eric Boguniecki 13 (Jonathan Girard, Juha Ylonen)
Eric Boguniecki 14 (unknown, Christian Matte)
Mike Eastwood 8 (unknown, unknown)
Jonathan Girard 4 (Rob Ray, Antti-Jussi Niemi)
unknown (unknown, Jakub Cutta)

Josh Holden 19 (unknown, Mike Rucinski)
Josh Holden 20 (unknown, Steven Halko)

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Goalies
Rochester: unknown
Lowell: Tyler Moss
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