Buffalo at Avalanche

Period 1
1. AVALANCHE, STAHL 20 (FORSBERG, BERGERON), 00:29
2. AVALANCHE, WILLSIE 8 (MORROW, MARKOV), 17:08
3. BUFFALO, FRIESEN 8 (KUNITZ, SUTER), 17:56

PENALTIES: B. SOPEL Buf (ROUGHING, Minor, Misconduct) 03:31, R. WHITNEY Ava (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 03:31, D. KALININ Ava (ELBOWING, Minor) 11:42

Period 2
4. AVALANCHE, STAHL 21 (FORSBERG) (PP), 15:35
5. BUFFALO, KOZLOV 17 (TVERDOVSKY) (SH), 18:06
6. AVALANCHE, SAKIC 6 (FORSBERG, WILLSIE), 19:48

PENALTIES: M. ROZSIVAL Buf (ELBOWING, Minor) 11:52, B. SOPEL Buf (BOARDING, Minor) 15:06, C. KUNITZ Buf (CHARGING, Minor) 16:34

Period 3
7. BUFFALO, BRIERE 15 (ELIAS, BARKER), 00:31
8. AVALANCHE, BERGERON 20 (WHITNEY, NASH), 02:13
9. BUFFALO, ZEDNIK 8 (VISHNOVSKI, SOPEL), 03:43
10. BUFFALO, KUNITZ 13 (KOZLOV, FRIESEN), 11:20
11. AVALANCHE, NASH 16 (UNASSISTED), 11:55

PENALTIES: C. BARKER Buf (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 05:30, L. VISHNOVSKI Buf (ELBOWING, Minor) 13:13, O. TVERDOVSKY Buf (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 14:35

Goalie Statistics

Cam Ward (Buf), 14 saves out of 19 shots
Sean Burke (Buf), 14 saves out of 15 shots, L, 0-2-3
Ed Belfour (Ava), 21 saves out of 26 shots, W, 13-12-3
J-S Giguere (Ava), 2 saves out of 2 shots

Power Play Conversions

Buffalo 0 for 1
Avalanche 1 for 6

Game Stars

1 - Peter Forsberg (Ava)
2 - Rick Nash (Ava)
3 - Brian Willsie (Ava)

Player Statistics

Buffalo G A P +/- PIM S HT IT -------------------------------------------------- Alexei Ponikarovsky 0 0 0 -2 0 0 2 16 Antoine Vermette 0 0 0 Even 0 3 1 21 Patrik Elias 0 1 1 -2 0 0 2 16 Jeff Friesen 1 1 2 +1 0 1 1 16 Michal Rozsival 0 0 0 -2 2 1 1 26 Viktor Kozlov 1 1 2 +1 0 2 0 16 Brent Sopel 0 1 1 Even 14 0 0 17 Daniel Briere 1 0 1 -2 0 1 0 17 Lubomir Vishnovski 0 1 1 Even 2 4 1 27 Oleg Tverdovsky 0 1 1 +1 2 1 4 17 Richard Zednik 1 0 1 Even 0 5 2 17 Thomas Vanek 0 0 0 Even 0 2 1 7 Fernando Pisani 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 5 Derek Armstrong 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 5 Chris Kunitz 1 1 2 +1 2 2 1 10 Cameron Barker 0 1 1 -2 2 1 6 22 Ryan Suter 0 1 1 +1 0 1 0 13 Marcus Nilson 0 0 0 Even 0 4 1 19

Avalanche G A P +/- PIM S HT IT -------------------------------------------------- Andrei Markov 0 1 1 Even 0 1 3 28 Rick Nash 1 1 2 +2 0 3 0 19 Andrei Kostsitsyn 0 0 0 -2 0 3 2 21 Rostislav Klesla 0 0 0 -1 0 3 0 15 Peter Forsberg 0 3 3 -1 0 7 3 30 Wojtek Wolski 0 0 0 Even 0 2 2 14 Patrice Bergeron 1 1 2 Even 0 2 2 31 Ossi Vaananen 0 0 0 +2 0 1 5 24 Eric Stahl 2 0 2 -2 0 2 1 20 Ryan Whitney 0 1 1 +2 2 0 1 19 Joe Sakic 1 0 1 +1 0 5 4 21 Sergei Samsonov 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 12 Dmitri Kalinin 0 0 0 Even 2 1 2 11 Brenden Morrow 0 1 1 +1 0 0 0 7 Arron Asham 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 0 Brian Willsie 1 1 2 +1 0 3 0 7 Dennis Seidenberg 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 0 Marek Svatos 0 0 0 +2 0 1 3 19

Financial

Attendance: 19697
Net Profit: $2�659�095,00

Game Notes

Sean Burke enters game at 02:13 of 3rd period
J-S Giguere enters game at 11:20 of 3rd period

Minor League Box Score

Americans      6
St-Victor      1
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Brian Rolston 27 (Jeff Halpern, Saku Koivu)
Brian Rolston 28 (Derian Hatcher, Vaclav Varada)
Craig Conroy 18 (Jeremy Roenick, Mariusz Czerkawski)
Bates Battaglia 14 (Alexei Zhitnik, Chris Gratton)
Vaclav Varada 21 (Peter Schaefer, Matt Cooke)
unknown (Brendan Morrison, unknown)

Phil Kessel 26 (Maxim Lapierre, Shane O'brien)

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Goalies
Americans: Roman Cechmanek
St-Victor: Jaroslav Halak
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