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Canadiens @ Sabres

Shots 1 2 3 OT FN
Canadiens 8 10 11 0 29
Sabres 7 5 9 0 21
Goals 1 2 3 OT FN
Canadiens 3 4 2 0 9
Sabres 1 0 1 0 2

Scoring Summary

Period 1
1. CANADIENS, HILL 5 (BEGIN, BURE), 06:24
2. SABRES, SYKORA 4 (LEOPOLD, WESLEY), 09:01
3. CANADIENS, NIKOLISHIN 4 (BURE, BEGIN), 13:13
4. CANADIENS, HRDINA 9 (HILL, BURE), 17:49

PENALTIES: D. TJARNQVIST BUF (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 01:57, T. RUUTU BUF (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 11:02, S. BEGIN MON (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 13:58, S. QUINTAL MON (ELBOWING, Minor) 14:03, S. QUINTAL MON (BOARDING, Minor) 17:31, J. LUPUL BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 17:31

Period 2
5. CANADIENS, HRDINA 10 (LUKOWICH, HOLIK), 02:28
6. CANADIENS, NIKOLISHIN 5 (BEGIN, SEMENOV), 14:17
7. CANADIENS, LETOWSKI 6 (NIKOLISHIN, BEGIN), 14:24
8. CANADIENS, DEMPSEY 7 (HRDINA, HOLIK), 15:00

PENALTIES: T. LETOWSKI MON (CHARGING, Minor) 00:17, B. HOLIK MON (BOARDING, Minor) 02:56, S. STAIOS BUF (ROUGHING, Minor) 04:46, S. QUINTAL MON (ELBOWING, Minor) 07:02, B. RICHARDS BUF (BOARDING, Minor) 07:34, B. LUKOWICH MON (ELBOWING, Minor) 07:41

Period 3
9. SABRES, JOHNSON 6 (LEOPOLD, REGEHR) (PP), 09:27
10. CANADIENS, HOLIK 14 (HILL, HRDINA), 18:07
11. CANADIENS, HRDINA 11 (DEMPSEY, MATVICHUK) (PP), 19:12

PENALTIES: A. ASHAM MON (, ) 01:41, J. IGINLA BUF (, ) 01:41, A. SEMENOV MON (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 07:48, S. BEGIN MON (ELBOWING, Minor) 15:10, S. STAIOS BUF (CHARGING, Minor) 18:15

Goalie Statistics

Rick DiPietro (MON), 19 saves out of 21 shots, W, 13-10-3
Marty Turco (BUF), 10 saves out of 15 shots, L, 20-6-7
Pasi Nurminen (BUF), 10 saves out of 14 shots

Power Play Conversions

Canadiens 1 for 5
Sabres 1 for 8

Game Stars

1 – Jan Hrdina (MON)
2 – Andrei Nikolishin (MON)
3 – Bobby Holik (MON)

Canadiens Pos G A Pts +/- Pim S H IT
Jan Hrdina LW 3 2 5 3 0 7 2 23
Steve Begin LW 0 4 4 4 4 0 2 16
Andrei Nikolishin C 2 1 3 4 0 4 1 16
Bobby Holik C 1 2 3 3 2 3 3 22
Sean Hill D 1 2 3 3 0 1 3 16
Valeri Bure RW 0 3 3 4 0 0 0 20
Nathan Dempsey D 1 1 2 2 0 1 3 29
Trevor Letowski RW 1 0 1 2 2 2 0 8
Brad Lukowich D 0 1 1 4 2 1 4 20
Alexei Semenov D 0 1 1 2 2 1 1 10
Richard Matvichuk D 0 1 1 0 0 1 6 24
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 0 2 6 2 3 11
Trevor Linden RW 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 24
Arron Asham RW 0 0 0 1 5 0 1 3
Robert Reichel C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 25
Viktor Kozlov C 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 16
Anders Eriksson D 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
Jan Hlavac LW 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Lines

Sabres Pos G A Pts +/- Pim S H IT
Jordan Leopold D 0 2 2 -2 0 3 1 23
Petr Sykora RW 1 0 1 -1 0 4 1 20
Greg Johnson C 1 0 1 -2 0 2 1 21
Glen Wesley D 0 1 1 -2 0 0 2 16
Robyn Regehr D 0 1 1 -3 0 0 7 25
Joffrey Lupul RW 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 16
Filip Kuba D 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 15
Dave Lowry LW 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Niklas Hagman LW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 11
Sandy McCarthy RW 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0
Marco Sturm LW 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 12
Lasse Pirjeta C 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 5
Jarome Iginla RW 0 0 0 -3 5 1 2 22
Tuomo Ruutu C 0 0 0 -3 2 3 1 21
Patrik Elias LW 0 0 0 -3 0 1 1 20
Brad Richards C 0 0 0 -3 2 2 1 18
Daniel Tjarnqvist D 0 0 0 -3 2 1 1 17
Steve Staios D 0 0 0 -4 4 2 3 24

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Financial

Attendance: 18787
Net Profit: $1,217,398.00

Game Notes

Pasi Nurminen enters game at 14:17 of 2nd period
Arron Asham and Jarome Iginla fight to a draw
Jan Hrdina scores a hat trick