Columbus at New Jersey

Period 1
1. COLUMBUS, WHITNEY 13 (SARICH, SILLINGER) (PP), 01:58
2. NEW JERSEY, WHITE 2 (BARON), 06:58
3. COLUMBUS, SILLINGER 14 (WHITNEY, RAGNARSSON), 18:38

PENALTIES: A. ZHAMNOV NJD (CHARGING, Minor) 00:13, T. WARRINER CMB (ELBOWING, Minor) 02:51, J. GRAND-PIERRE CMB (ROUGHING, Minor) 12:35, C. WHITE NJD (BOARDING, Minor) 12:35, V. YACHMENEV CMB (ROUGHING, Minor) 16:41, S. KOIVU NJD (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 16:41

Period 2
4. NEW JERSEY, RICCI 6 (KOIVU, ARNOTT), 01:26
5. COLUMBUS, SILLINGER 15 (WHITNEY, RAGNARSSON), 03:40

PENALTIES: G. MARSHALL CMB (ROUGHING, Minor) 05:18, S. NIEDERMAYER NJD (BOARDING, Minor) 05:18, J. SHELLEY CMB (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 06:23, B. WITT NJD (ROUGHING, Minor) 07:56, M. ERAT CMB (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 09:24

Period 3
6. COLUMBUS, SILLINGER 16 (ERAT, WARRINER) (PP), 04:52
7. NEW JERSEY, KOIVU 12 (ARNOTT, WHITE), 09:28
8. COLUMBUS, SILLINGER 17 (WHITNEY, RAGNARSSON), 13:03

PENALTIES: E. KNUTSEN CMB (CHARGING, Minor) 01:42, G. TITOV NJD (CHARGING, Minor) 04:24, G. MARSHALL CMB (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 13:41, C. SARICH CMB (HOOKING, Minor) 15:45, A. ZHAMNOV NJD (CHARGING, Minor) 19:14, R. KLESLA CMB (ROUGHING, Minor) 19:51

Goalie Statistics

Marc Denis (CMB), 25 saves out of 28 shots, W, 10-12-5
Milan Hnilicka (NJD), 1 saves out of 1 shots
Martin Brodeur (NJD), 19 saves out of 24 shots, L, 21-22-3

Power Play Conversions

Columbus 2 for 4
New Jersey 0 for 7

Game Stars

1 - Mike Sillinger (CMB)
2 - Ray Whitney (CMB)
3 - Colin White (NJD)

Player Statistics

Columbus G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Derrick Walser 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 17 Jim Dowd 0 0 0 Even 0 1 1 20 Deron Quint 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 26 Espen Knutsen 0 0 0 -1 2 4 1 11 Marcus Ragnarsson 0 3 3 +1 0 0 3 25 Vitali Yachmenev 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 9 J-Luc Grand-Pierre 0 0 0 -1 2 1 2 15 Jody Shelley 0 0 0 Even 2 3 0 6 Herbert Vasiljevs 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 15 Cory Sarich 0 1 1 Even 2 0 1 16 Jeff Odgers 0 0 0 Even 0 0 3 12 Todd Warriner 0 1 1 Even 2 0 1 17 Ray Whitney 1 3 4 +1 0 2 1 19 Martin Erat 0 1 1 -1 2 1 1 10 Rostislav Klesla 0 0 0 +2 2 2 0 20 Mike Sillinger 4 1 5 +2 0 5 1 18 Tyler Wright 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11 Grant Marshall 0 0 0 +1 4 3 4 20

New Jersey G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Brian Gionta 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 10 Alexei Zhamnov 0 0 0 -1 4 5 0 23 Colin White 1 1 2 +3 2 2 1 23 Boris Mironov 0 0 0 +2 0 1 3 21 Jason Arnott 0 2 2 +2 0 3 2 22 Mike Ricci 1 0 1 +2 0 2 3 16 Cliff Ronning 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 16 German Titov 0 0 0 Even 2 2 0 6 Patrik Elias 0 0 0 -1 0 4 5 22 Petr Sykora 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 22 Pierre Dagenais 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 0 Dave Andreychuk 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 15 Brendan Witt 0 0 0 -2 2 1 1 23 Scott Niedermayer 0 0 0 -1 2 1 1 23 Saku Koivu 1 1 2 +2 2 2 0 18 Murray Baron 0 1 1 -1 0 0 1 19 Turner Stevenson 0 0 0 Even 0 1 0 4 Mathieu Biron 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11

Financial

Attendance: 10049
Net Profit: $602 940,00

Game Notes

Milan Hnilicka enters game at 13:03 of 3rd period
Mike Sillinger scores a hat trick

Minor League Box Score

Syracuse       1
Albany Riv     7
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Serge Aubin 9 (Brett Harkins, Aaron Gavey)

Jim Mckenzie 19 (Joe Sacco, Andreas Salomonsson)
Mikael Samuelsson 14 (Ted Donato, Mike Danton)
Ted Donato 13 (Jody Hull, unknown)
Jody Hull 10 (Craig Berube, unknown)
Craig Berube 18 (unknown, unknown)
Mike Danton 17 (unknown, unknown)
Mike Danton 18 (unknown, unknown)

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Goalies
Syracuse: Jean Labbe
Albany Riv: John Vanbiesbrouck
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