Minnesota at Buffalo

Shots
123OTT
Minnesota 6 7 9 0 22
Buffalo 6 6 15 0 27
Goals
123OTT
Minnesota 1 2 3 0 6
Buffalo 1 0 3 0 4


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. BUFFALO, KOTALIK 5 (REINPRECHT, ISBISTER), 06:31
2. MINNESOTA, LILJA 1 (RIBEIRO, KOVALEV) (SH), 07:24

PENALTIES: R. PARK BUF (CHARGING, Minor) 04:02, G. EXELBY MIN (ELBOWING, Minor) 07:20, A. PETERS BUF (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 09:27, A. YASHIN BUF (HOOKING, Minor) 10:46, A. KOVALEV MIN (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 13:25, J. POMINVILLE BUF (ROUGHING, Double Minor) 13:25, J. ERSKINE BUF (HOOKING, Minor) 14:48, B. MARCHMENT BUF (HIGHSTICKING, Double Minor) 17:39, E. DESJARDINS MIN (CHARGING, Double Minor) 17:57, R. PARK BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 18:33

Period 2
3. MINNESOTA, MARSHALL 3 (KUBA, EKMAN), 11:14
4. MINNESOTA, RIBEIRO 7 (KOVALEV), 19:49

PENALTIES: M. RIBEIRO MIN (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 06:37, J. WILLIAMS MIN (HOOKING, Minor) 09:24, A. YASHIN BUF (ELBOWING, Minor) 09:24

Period 3
5. BUFFALO, MICHALEK 3 (KOTALIK, POTI), 03:22
6. MINNESOTA, WILLIAMS 7 (UNASSISTED), 06:35
7. MINNESOTA, DAIGLE 3 (KUBA), 09:12
8. BUFFALO, REINPRECHT 10 (POTI, ISBISTER), 12:34
9. MINNESOTA, PARRISH 6 (DAIGLE, LILJA) (PP), 14:09
10. BUFFALO, DAGENAIS 8 (KOTALIK, MICHALEK) (PP), 18:06

PENALTIES: A. BRUNETTE MIN (ROUGHING, Minor) 08:36, B. ISBISTER BUF (HOOKING, Minor) 08:36, G. MARSHALL MIN (BOARDING, Double Minor) 10:01, J. GIRARD BUF (CHARGING, Double Minor) 10:38, A. BRUNETTE MIN (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 16:42, G. EXELBY MIN (ROUGHING, Minor) 19:55

Goalie Statistics

Marc-Andre Fleury (MIN), 23 saves out of 27 shots, W, 4-3-0
Jason Labarbera (BUF), 13 saves out of 18 shots, L, 1-5-2
Ryan Miller (BUF), 3 saves out of 4 shots

Power Play Conversions

Minnesota 1 for 8
Buffalo 1 for 6

Game Stars

1 - Ales Kotalik (BUF)
2 - Steve Reinprecht (BUF)
3 - Mike Ribeiro (MIN)

Player Statistics

Minnesota

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Trevor Linden         0  0  0    -2   0  0   1 10
Tomas Holmstrom       0  0  0    +2   0  4   1 21
Nils Ekman            0  1  1    +3   0  1   0 23
Danny Markov          0  0  0    -1   0  0   3 21
Andrew Brunette       0  0  0  Even   4  1   2 20
Alexandre Daigle      1  1  2    -1   0  1   1  6
Alexei Kovalev        0  2  2  Even   2  2   2 19
Garnet Exelby         0  0  0    +2   4  1   2 20
Grant Marshall        1  0  1    -1   4  2   1  8
Jason Williams        1  0  1    +2   2  1   2 18
Filip Kuba            0  2  2    +3   0  0   0 22
Bryan Smolinski       0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  3
Andreas Lilja         1  1  2    -2   0  2   2 21
Eric Desjardins       0  0  0  Even   4  1   0 18
Mike Ribeiro          1  1  2  Even   2  4   4 28
Alexei Zhamnov        0  0  0  Even   0  0   1  8
Mark Parrish          1  0  1  Even   0  1   1 17
Mark Streit           0  0  0  Even   0  1   0  9
   
Buffalo

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Jason Pominville      0  0  0  Even   4  1   3 12
Tom Poti              0  2  2    +1   0  2   2 25
Ales Kotalik          1  2  3  Even   0  4   0 19
Bryan Marchment       0  0  0    -2   4  1   5 17
John Erskine          0  0  0  Even   2  0   0 12
Brett Hull            0  0  0  Even   0  2   0 12
Mikael Samuelsson     0  0  0    -1   0  1   0 18
Jonathan Girard       0  0  0    -1   4  0   1 15
Pierre Dagenais       1  0  1    -1   0  1   1 16
Rory Fitzpatrick      0  0  0  Even   0  1   3 16
Alexei Yashin         0  0  0    -1   4  3   1 20
Andrew Peters         0  0  0  Even   2  1   2  5
Stu Barnes            0  0  0    -1   0  0   0 11
Brad Isbister         0  2  2  Even   2  1   4 20
Richard Park          0  0  0  Even   4  0   0  7
Steve Reinprecht      1  1  2    +1   0  5   2 26
Zbynek Michalek       1  1  2  Even   0  3   1 28
Jiri Novotny          0  0  0  Even   0  1   0  8
   

Financial

Attendance: 12010
Net Profit: $756 630,00

Game Notes

Bryan Smolinski injured at 07:20 of the 1st Period
Ryan Miller enters game at 09:12 of 3rd period

Minor League Box Score

Houston        0
Rochester      2
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unknown (Milan Bartovic, unknown)
Paul Gaustad 1 (Pavel Brendl, Chris Taylor)

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Goalies
Houston: Josh Harding
Rochester: unknown
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