1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Montreal	0	1	2	3
St. Louis	2	1	1	4

First Period: Scoring: 1, St Louis, P Turgeon 18 (power play) (unassisted), 5:15. 2, St Louis, P Turgeon 19 (Hecht, Reirden), 12:33. Penalties: Montreal bench, served by Stevenson (too many men on the ice), 4:02; Mayers, Stl (hooking), 10:04; Nash, Stl (cross checking), 15:44.
Second Period: Scoring: 3, St Louis, Bartecko 9 (Persson), 8:31. 4, Montreal, Linden 3 (Cummins, Ward), 11:53. Penalties: S Pellerin, Stl (hooking), 5:17; Dykhuis, Mon (Obstr holding), 15:36.
Third Period: Scoring: 5, St Louis, Macinnis 7 (Young, P Turgeon), 3:58. 6, Montreal, Bouillon 1 (power play) (Brisebois, S Corson), 10:09. 7, Montreal, Ulanov 1 (Brunet, Rucinsky), 13:05. Penalties: Cummins, Mon (roughing), 7:27; Macinnis, Stl (tripping), 9:38.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Montreal		5	6	11	--22
St Louis		6	7	5	--18

Power-play Conversions: Mon - 1 of 4, Stl - 1 of 3. Goalies: Montreal, Theodore (18 shots, 14 saves; record: 5-8-1). St Louis, R Turek (22, 19; record: 19-9-5). A:18,050. Referee: Mcgeough. Linesmen: Cvik, Mcelman.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Montreal					St Louis
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Asham Bouillon Brisebois Brunet Cummins Darby Dykhuis Lachance Linden Poulin Rucinsky S Corson Stevenson Thornton Ulanov Ward Weinrich Zholtok	0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0	0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0	-1 even -1 even even -1 -1 even even -1 even even -1 even -1 even +1 +1	0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 3 0 3 1 2 1 6 1 1 0	Bartecko Bassen Bergevin Conroy Demitra Eastwood Finley Handzus Hecht Macinnis Mayers Nash P Turgeon Persson Pronger Reirden S Pellerin Young	1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1	even even +1 even even even even even +1 +1 even even +1 even even even even +1	1 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 5 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 2