Sharks at Buffalo

Period 1
1. SHARKS, BEAUCHEMIN 6 (CHEECHOO, DEMITRA), 06:52
2. BUFFALO, ELIAS 34 (CONROY, HATCHER), 08:50

PENALTIES: H. DRUKEN San (CHARGING, Minor) 13:53

Period 2
3. SHARKS, CROSBY 20 (CHEECHOO, DEMITRA), 06:18
4. BUFFALO, CONROY 3 (ELIAS, BRIERE), 09:35
5. BUFFALO, CONROY 4 (NILSON) (PP), 11:49

PENALTIES: J. LILES San (ROUGHING, Minor) 00:07, J. CHEECHOO San (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 09:41, J. NIINIMAA San (HIGHSTICKING, Minor, Misconduct) 10:31

Period 3
6. SHARKS, BEAUCHEMIN 7 (FORTIN), 04:06
7. BUFFALO, VANEK 3 (VERMETTE, SOPEL), 11:23
8. BUFFALO, VERMETTE 9 (VANEK, TIMONEN), 19:08

PENALTIES: A. VERMETTE Buf (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 00:19, M. ROZSIVAL Buf (ELBOWING, Minor) 00:40, S. CROSBY San (HOOKING, Minor) 12:06, A. KOVALEV San (ROUGHING, Minor) 20:00, C. CONROY Buf (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 20:00

Goalie Statistics

Dominik Hasek (San), 20 saves out of 25 shots, L, 25-25-3
Vesa Toskala (San), 1 saves out of 1 shots
Cam Ward (Buf), 21 saves out of 24 shots, W, 30-26-2

Power Play Conversions

Sharks 0 for 2
Buffalo 1 for 5

Game Stars

1 - Craig Conroy (Buf)
2 - Francois Beauchemin (San)
3 - Antoine Vermette (Buf)

Player Statistics

Sharks G A P +/- PIM S HT IT -------------------------------------------------- John-Michael Liles 0 0 0 -2 2 1 0 23 Brad Richards 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 26 Pavol Demitra 0 2 2 +2 0 3 1 16 Harold Druken 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0 13 Erik Cole 0 0 0 Even 0 2 2 11 Sidney Crosby 1 0 1 +3 2 3 1 22 Janne Niinimaa 0 0 0 -1 12 0 2 18 Joe Sakic 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 10 Alex Tanguay 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 19 Mike Van Ryn 0 0 0 -2 0 2 3 25 Francois Beauchemin 2 0 2 +2 0 3 2 20 Andrej Meszaros 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 11 Ladislav Nagy 0 0 0 -1 0 2 2 10 Jonathan Cheechoo 0 2 2 +2 2 2 3 20 Blair Betts 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 4 Alexei Kovalev 0 0 0 -2 2 1 1 18 Jean-Francois Fortin 0 1 1 +2 0 3 1 15 Lee Stempniak 0 0 0 -1 0 0 3 10

Buffalo G A P +/- PIM S HT IT -------------------------------------------------- Alexei Ponikarovsky 0 0 0 -3 0 7 3 20 Antoine Vermette 1 1 2 +2 2 2 1 27 Patrik Elias 1 1 2 +2 0 1 3 21 Jeff Friesen 0 0 0 +2 0 2 0 18 Michal Rozsival 0 0 0 -3 2 1 1 23 Brent Sopel 0 1 1 +2 0 0 2 16 Daniel Briere 0 1 1 +2 0 1 0 16 Kimmo Timonen 0 1 1 +2 0 2 1 17 Lubomir Vishnovski 0 0 0 +2 0 2 1 21 Oleg Tverdovsky 0 0 0 -3 0 1 1 20 Vaclav Varada 0 0 0 Even 0 0 2 7 Richard Zednik 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 5 Thomas Vanek 1 1 2 +2 0 1 2 13 Cameron Barker 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 6 Derian Hatcher 0 1 1 +2 0 0 6 16 Marcus Nilson 0 1 1 -3 0 1 0 22 Craig Conroy 2 1 3 -1 2 5 3 28

Financial

Attendance: 20000
Net Profit: $1�350�000,00

Game Notes

Patrik Elias injured at 16:21 of the 3rd Period
Vesa Toskala enters game at 19:08 of 3rd period

Minor League Box Score

Lord Lafon     2
Americans      13
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Alexander Mogilny 41 (Mike Ricci, Andrew Cassels)
Andy Hilbert 30 (Chris Drury, Jan Hrdina)

Rod Brind'Amour 30 (Matt Cooke, Bates Battaglia)
Matt Cooke 20 (Mariusz Czerkawski, Brendan Morrison)
Bates Battaglia 44 (unknown, Jeff Halpern)
Chris Gratton 11 (Peter Smrek, unknown)
Chris Gratton 12 (unknown, Peter Schaefer)
Jeff Halpern 29 (unknown, unknown)
Chris Gratton 13 (unknown, unknown)
Rod Brind'Amour 31 (unknown, unknown)
Bates Battaglia 45 (unknown, unknown)
Peter Schaefer 24 (unknown, unknown)
unknown (unknown, unknown)
Matt Cooke 21 (unknown, unknown)
Bates Battaglia 46 (unknown, unknown)

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Goalies
Lord Lafon: Andrew Raycroft
Americans: Mike Dunham
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