Montreal at Buffalo

Shots
123OTT
Montreal 13 8 14 0 35
Buffalo 4 16 3 0 23
Goals
123OTT
Montreal 2 1 2 0 5
Buffalo 0 1 0 0 1


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. MONTREAL, NASLUND 22 (KOTALIK, MCDONALD), 09:06
2. MONTREAL, MELICHAR 4 (YASHIN, TKACHUK), 18:25

PENALTIES: B. MEZEI MTL (FIGHTING) 02:01, R. IVANANS BUF (FIGHTING) 02:01

Period 2
3. BUFFALO, POMINVILLE 18 (JANIK, PAVELSKI) (PP), 12:54
4. MONTREAL, BULIS 12 (SUTTON, GONCHAR), 13:21

PENALTIES: B. MEZEI MTL (ELBOWING, Minor) 05:49, K. TKACHUK MTL (ELBOWING, Double Minor) 09:49, B. BERARD MTL (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 18:22, T. BROUWER BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 18:22, J. NIINIMAA BUF (HOOKING, Minor, Game Misconduct) 18:42 (Served by Norm Milley)

Period 3
5. MONTREAL, WARD 13 (GONCHAR, TANABE), 02:19
6. MONTREAL, SAMUELSSON 13 (TKACHUK, YASHIN), 19:11

PENALTIES: R. IVANANS BUF (BOARDING, Minor, Game Misconduct) 00:10 (Served by Doug Janik), Z. MICHALEK BUF (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 10:22, T. BROUWER BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 15:48

Goalie Statistics

Jean-Sebastien Giguere (MTL), 22 saves out of 23 shots, W, 26-11-6
Jason Labarbera (BUF), 30 saves out of 35 shots, L, 2-6-3
Ryan Miller (BUF), 0 saves out of 0 shots

Power Play Conversions

Montreal 0 for 4
Buffalo 1 for 2

Game Stars

1 - Josef Melichar (MTL)
2 - Jean-Sebastien Giguere (MTL)
3 - Markus Naslund (MTL)

Player Statistics

Montreal

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Andy Sutton           0  1  1    +2   0  3   1 28
Branislav Mezei       0  0  0    +1   7  0   0  8
Markus Naslund        1  0  1    +1   0  4   0 24
Alexander Semin       0  0  0  Even   0  5   2 17
Ales Kotalik          0  1  1    +1   0  0   2 20
Josef Melichar        1  0  1    +3   0  6   2 14
Andy McDonald         0  1  1    +1   0  2   2 23
Jan Bulis             1  0  1    +2   0  1   1  8
Alexei Yashin         0  2  2    +2   0  1   0  9
Jason Ward            1  0  1    +1   0  2   2  7
Keith Tkachuk         0  2  2    +2   4  0   1  8
David Tanabe          0  1  1    +2   0  3   5 27
Bryan Berard          0  0  0    +2   2  3   2 25
Kyle Calder           0  0  0  Even   0  1   0  5
Patrick Marleau       0  0  0  Even   0  2   3 20
Miroslav Satan        0  0  0  Even   0  0   0 17
Mikael Samuelsson     1  0  1    +2   0  2   0  8
Sergei Gonchar        0  2  2    +2   0  0   2 25
   
Buffalo

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Norm Milley           0  0  0    -1   0  0   0  4
Jason Pominville      1  0  1    -2   0  3   1 19
Joe Pavelski          0  1  1    -1   0  3   3 25
Nigel Dawes           0  0  0    -2   0  1   0 21
Bates Battaglia       0  0  0    -2   0  1   2 22
Thomas Pock           0  0  0    -3   0  1   0 26
Tomas Mojzis          0  0  0  Even   0  3   0 17
Doug Janik            0  1  1    -2   0  0   3 23
Janne Niinimaa        0  0  0    -2  12  2   2 16
Raitis Ivanans        0  0  0  Even  17  0   0  8
Troy Brouwer          0  0  0    -1   4  2   2 19
Justin Papineau       0  0  0    -2   0  1   0  7
Andrew Peters         0  0  0    -1   0  0   1  8
Zenon Konopka         0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 11
Matt Foy              0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 11
Kyle Cumiskey         0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 15
Steve Reinprecht      0  0  0    -2   0  2   0 18
Zbynek Michalek       0  0  0    -4   2  1   2 23
   

Financial

Attendance: 13649
Net Profit: $859 887,00

Game Notes

Branislav Mezei beats up Raitis Ivanans
Branislav Mezei injured at 18:42 of the 2nd Period
Janne Niinimaa ejected at 18:42 of the 2nd Period
Raitis Ivanans ejected at 00:10 of the 3rd Period
Ryan Miller enters game at 19:11 of 3rd period

Minor League Box Score

Hamilton       3
Rochester      1
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Mattias Weinhandl 19 (Denis Hamel, unknown)
Alexei Smirnov 12 (Clarke MacArthur, Mason Raymond)
Jean-Francois Jacques 11 (Duncan Milroy, Arron Asham)

Tyler Bouck 6 (Tomas Fleischmann, Lasse Kukkonen)

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Goalies
Hamilton: Rob McVicar
Rochester: Jean-Sebastien Aubin
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