New Jersey at Montreal

Period 1
1. NEW JERSEY, SYKORA 26 (NIEDERMAYER, MIRONOV), 00:32
2. NEW JERSEY, SMYTH 32 (NYLANDER, SLEGR), 01:54

PENALTIES: S. NIEDERMAYER NJD (HIGHSTICKING, Double Minor) 00:34, D. SCATCHARD MTL (ELBOWING, Minor) 01:01, P. SVOBODA NJD (ELBOWING, Major) 01:58, R. ZEDNIK MTL (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 03:59, R. SMYTH NJD (ROUGHING, Double Minor) 16:43, K. DYKHUIS MTL (ROUGHING, Minor) 17:52

Period 2
3. NEW JERSEY, SMYTH 33 (SALO, NYLANDER), 07:49
4. NEW JERSEY, SVOBODA 2 (ANDREYCHUK, STEVENSON), 08:34

PENALTIES: D. SHANNON MTL (HOOKING, Minor) 11:11

Period 3
5. MONTREAL, KOVALENKO 9 (LINDEN, MARKOV), 12:45
6. NEW JERSEY, STEVENSON 9 (NEMCHINOV, ELIAS), 14:00
7. NEW JERSEY, NYLANDER 9 (SLEGR, SALO), 15:10
8. MONTREAL, PETROV 11 (KOVALENKO, LINDEN), 15:51

PENALTIES: B. MEZEI MTL (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor, Misconduct) 02:59, D. SHANNON MTL (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 07:19, M. LINDGREN MTL (ELBOWING, Minor, Misconduct) 07:27

Goalie Statistics

Milan Hnilicka (NJD), 11 saves out of 13 shots, W, 3-2-3
Jeff Hackett (MTL), 3 saves out of 4 shots
Brian Boucher (MTL), 24 saves out of 29 shots, L, 4-9-1

Power Play Conversions

New Jersey 0 for 7
Montreal 0 for 3

Game Stars

1 - Ryan Smyth (NJD)
2 - Mikael Nylander (NJD)
3 - Jiri Slegr (NJD)

Player Statistics

New Jersey G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Alexei Zhamnov 0 0 0 +2 0 1 3 20 Mikael Nylander 1 2 3 +2 0 3 1 24 Boris Mironov 0 1 1 Even 0 1 5 23 Sami Salo 0 2 2 +2 0 3 4 21 Jason Arnott 0 0 0 Even 0 0 5 18 Steve Poapst 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 8 Peter Popovic 0 0 0 +1 0 1 1 7 Ken Daneyko 0 0 0 +1 0 1 0 13 Patrik Elias 0 1 1 +1 0 2 0 26 Petr Sykora 1 0 1 Even 0 3 0 24 Dave Andreychuk 0 1 1 +1 0 1 0 14 Ryan Smyth 2 0 2 +2 4 5 0 19 Scott Niedermayer 0 1 1 Even 4 5 2 19 Peter Svoboda 1 0 1 +1 5 2 3 9 Sergei Nemchinov 0 1 1 +1 0 1 1 5 Turner Stevenson 1 1 2 +2 0 1 2 11 Jiri Slegr 0 2 2 +2 0 3 3 21 Shawn Horcoff 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 11

Montreal G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Andrei Markov 0 1 1 +2 0 1 1 12 Branislav Mezei 0 0 0 -3 12 0 1 17 Brian Savage 0 0 0 -3 0 1 1 22 Chad Kilger 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 15 Kevin Haller 0 0 0 -2 0 0 4 15 Mike Keane 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 13 Darryl Shannon 0 0 0 -1 4 0 1 12 Dave Scatchard 0 0 0 -2 2 0 3 20 Andrei Kovalenko 1 1 2 Even 0 2 3 19 Karl Dykhuis 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 20 Mats Lindgren 0 0 0 -1 12 1 1 11 Oleg Petrov 1 0 1 Even 0 2 2 19 Patrick Poulin 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 5 Patrick Traverse 0 0 0 Even 0 3 2 20 Richard Zednik 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 18 Trevor Linden 0 2 2 +1 0 1 4 20 Joe Juneau 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 9 Stephane Quintal 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 23

Financial

Attendance: 11447
Net Profit: $600 968,00

Game Notes

Jeff Hackett enters game at 14:00 of 3rd period

Minor League Box Score

Albany Riv     4
Quebec         2
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Stanislav Gron 12 (John Emmons, Ted Drury)
John Emmons 17 (unknown, Frank Musil)
Pierre Dagenais 27 (Jim Mckenzie, Mike Jefferson)
Kai Nurminen 16 (unknown, unknown)

Eric Bertrand 6 (Benoit Brunet, Andrei Bashkirov)
Jan Bulis 13 (Juha Lind, Eric Landry)

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Goalies
Albany Riv: Michael Fountain
Quebec: Eric Fichaud
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