Atlanta at LA

Period 1
1. ATLANTA, DRURY 5 (SMYTH, JACKMAN), 09:21
2. ATLANTA, TARNSTROM 5 (GAGNE, MALKIN), 13:42
3. ATLANTA, BRIERE 4 (AFINOGENOV, HEJDUK), 15:25

PENALTIES: D. TARNSTROM Atl (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 04:55, D. BRIERE Atl (CHARGING, Minor) 17:19

Period 2
4. LA, SAMSONOV 7 (UNASSISTED), 07:37
5. LA, STUART 3 (RICHARDS, MARKOV), 14:38

PENALTIES: E. MALKIN Atl (CHARGING, Minor, Game Misconduct) 09:11 (Served by Martin Havlat), J. LECLAIR LA (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 09:11

Period 3
6. LA, FROLOV 6 (MORRIS, GOMEZ), 08:04
7. LA, KAPANEN 2 (BERGERON, STUART), 13:42
8. LA, MARKOV 4 (SAMSONOV, STUART), 17:28
9. ATLANTA, BRIERE 5 (AFINOGENOV), 17:45

PENALTIES: D. MORRIS LA (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 11:08

Goalie Statistics

Kevin Weekes (Atl), 28 saves out of 33 shots, L, 2-7-2
Patrick Lalime (Atl), 1 saves out of 1 shots
Miikka Kiprusoff (LA ), 25 saves out of 29 shots, W, 12-5-3

Power Play Conversions

Atlanta 0 for 1
LA 0 for 2

Game Stars

1 - Brad Stuart (LA )
2 - Daniel Briere (Atl)
3 - Andrei Markov (LA )

Player Statistics

Atlanta G A P +/- PIM S HT IT -------------------------------------------------- Simon Gagne 0 1 1 -1 0 7 2 24 Martin Havlat 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 18 Milan Hejduk 0 1 1 +1 0 2 1 20 Ryan Smyth 0 1 1 -1 0 2 1 18 Daniel Briere 2 0 2 Even 2 4 2 24 Maxim Afinogenov 0 2 2 +1 0 0 0 21 Chris Drury 1 0 1 Even 0 2 1 18 Dick Tarnstrom 1 0 1 -1 2 3 0 23 Scott Hannan 0 0 0 Even 0 1 4 25 Cory Cross 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 21 Jaroslav Modry 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 15 Shean Donovan 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 11 Bret Hedican 0 0 0 +1 0 1 1 23 Vyacheslav Kozlov 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 0 Richard Jackman 0 1 1 Even 0 1 0 12 Bryan Smolinski 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 3 Chris Gratton 0 0 0 -1 0 1 0 8 Evgeni Malkin 0 1 1 Even 12 1 0 9

LA G A P +/- PIM S HT IT -------------------------------------------------- Brad Stuart 1 2 3 +2 0 3 2 25 Alexander Frolov 1 0 1 -1 0 2 1 19 Scott Gomez 0 1 1 -1 0 2 1 23 Brad Richards 0 1 1 Even 0 5 3 26 Sergei Samsonov 1 1 2 Even 0 3 1 22 M-A Bergeron 0 1 1 Even 0 3 1 21 Andrei Markov 1 1 2 +1 0 3 0 21 Jean-Pierre Dumont 0 0 0 Even 0 3 0 13 Derek Morris 0 1 1 -1 2 1 2 19 Alexei Yashin 0 0 0 Even 0 1 0 13 Petr Sykora 0 0 0 Even 0 4 1 19 Ruslan Fedotenko 0 0 0 +1 0 1 2 8 Peter Bondra 0 0 0 +1 0 1 1 19 Denis Gauthier 0 0 0 +1 0 0 1 15 Darius Kasparaitis 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 6 Sami Kapanen 1 0 1 +1 0 1 0 6 John LeClair 0 0 0 Even 2 1 0 15 Jarkko Ruutu 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 8

Financial

Attendance: 16814
Net Profit: $1,412,376.00

Game Notes

Darius Kasparaitis injured at 09:11 of the 2nd Period
Evgeni Malkin ejected at 09:11 of the 2nd Period
Patrick Lalime enters game at 17:28 of 3rd period

Minor League Box Score

Sault Ste.     9
Manchester     1
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Chad LaRose 10 (Daniel Cleary, Steve Moore)
Chad LaRose 11 (Brian Campbell, Andrej Nedorost)
Dimitri Afanasenkov 6 (Jeff Woywitka, Michael Rupp)
Steve Moore 3 (Mark Rycroft, Jean-Pierre Vigier)
Jean-Pierre Vigier 6 (Jaroslav Bednar, Scott Barney)
Chad LaRose 12 (Boyd Devereaux, Bates Battaglia)
Bates Battaglia 6 (Johnathan Aitken, Niklas Kronwall)
Boyd Devereaux 8 (Julien Vauclair, Daniel Tkaczuk)
Boyd Devereaux 9 (Kyle Rossiter, Ivan Majesky)

Darby Hendrickson 9 (Pavel Brendl, Denis Arkhipov)

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Goalies
Sault Ste.: Mikael Tellqvist
Manchester: Sebastien Caron
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