Buffalo at Canadiens

Period 1
1. CANADIENS, CIBAK 20 (BALEJ, WEBER), 04:50

PENALTIES: N. SCHULTZ Can (HOOKING, Minor) 01:15, P. BRENDL Can (BOARDING, Minor) 13:46

Period 2
2. BUFFALO, BRIERE 27 (VERMETTE, VISHNOVSKI) (PP), 06:26
3. BUFFALO, ELIAS 32 (HATCHER, BRIERE), 07:16
4. BUFFALO, TVERDOVSKY 10 (NILSON, ROZSIVAL), 08:42
5. BUFFALO, VISHNOVSKI 12 (BRIERE, HATCHER), 10:20
6. BUFFALO, VERMETTE 7 (VISHNOVSKI, BRIERE), 10:37

PENALTIES: J. BALEJ Can (HOOKING, Minor) 05:52, D. BRIERE Buf (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 10:49, S. WEBER Can (ROUGHING, Double Minor) 16:50

Period 3
7. BUFFALO, BRIERE 28 (VERMETTE) (PP), 06:43
8. BUFFALO, VERMETTE 8 (NILSON, SOPEL) (PP), 15:12

PENALTIES: N. HAGMAN Can (BOARDING, Major) 03:52, D. HATCHER Buf (CHECKING-FROM-BEHIND, Major) 09:11, A. STEEN Can (CHARGING, Minor) 09:11, K. HUSELIUS Can (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 13:20, D. ROY Can (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 17:32

Goalie Statistics

Cam Ward (Buf), 22 saves out of 23 shots, W, 29-25-2
Roman Cechmanek (Can), 19 saves out of 21 shots
Marty Turco (Can), 7 saves out of 12 shots, L, 30-27-5

Power Play Conversions

Buffalo 3 for 7
Canadiens 0 for 2

Game Stars

1 - Daniel Briere (Buf)
2 - Antoine Vermette (Buf)
3 - Lubomir Vishnovski (Buf)

Player Statistics

Buffalo G A P +/- PIM S HT IT -------------------------------------------------- Alexei Ponikarovsky 0 0 0 +1 0 5 1 25 Antoine Vermette 2 2 4 +3 0 5 2 21 Patrik Elias 1 0 1 +3 0 2 3 22 Jeff Friesen 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 14 Michal Rozsival 0 1 1 +1 0 2 1 25 Brent Sopel 0 1 1 Even 0 2 1 14 Daniel Briere 2 3 5 +3 2 3 1 17 Kimmo Timonen 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 19 Lubomir Vishnovski 1 2 3 +2 0 3 0 20 Oleg Tverdovsky 1 0 1 +1 0 2 3 26 Vaclav Varada 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 5 Richard Zednik 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 4 Thomas Vanek 0 0 0 -1 0 2 1 8 Cameron Barker 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 4 Steven Reinprecht 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 9 Derian Hatcher 0 2 2 +3 5 0 6 11 Marcus Nilson 0 2 2 +1 0 2 2 24 Craig Conroy 0 0 0 +1 0 2 1 26

Canadiens G A P +/- PIM S HT IT -------------------------------------------------- Josef Balej 0 1 1 +1 2 2 0 11 Matt Carle 0 0 0 -2 0 0 3 22 Mattias Ohlund 0 0 0 -2 0 2 4 27 Zack Parise 0 0 0 -2 0 2 2 26 Martin Cibak 1 0 1 +1 0 4 0 17 Niklas Hagman 0 0 0 -1 5 1 1 19 Martin St. Louis 0 0 0 -2 0 0 1 14 Shea Weber 0 1 1 -1 4 0 1 20 Kristian Huselius 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 8 Derek Roy 0 0 0 -1 2 1 5 20 Alexander Steen 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 3 Nick Schultz 0 0 0 Even 2 2 0 7 Pavel Brendl 0 0 0 +1 2 2 1 10 Eric Daze 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 14 Sheldon Souray 0 0 0 Even 0 1 1 16 Sheldon Keefe 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 4 Vaclav Nedorost 0 0 0 -2 0 2 3 21 Tomas Kaberle 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 23

Financial

Attendance: 20000
Net Profit: $1�650�000,00

Game Notes

Nick Schultz injured at 00:35 of the 2nd Period
Roman Cechmanek enters game at 10:37 of 2nd period

Minor League Box Score

Americans      3
Pizza Hut      3
-------------------------------------
Matt Cooke 18 (Rod Brind'Amour, Jeff Halpern)
Rod Brind'Amour 27 (Mariusz Czerkawski, Chris Gratton)
Bates Battaglia 43 (Peter Schaefer, Brendan Morrison)

unknown (Georges Laraque, unknown)
Marcel Hossa 56 (Oleg Petrov, unknown)
Marcel Hossa 57 (unknown, unknown)

-------------------------------------
Goalies
Americans: Mike Dunham
Pizza Hut: Curtis Joseph
-------------------------------------