1st	2nd	3rd	OT	TOTAL
Buffalo	1	0	2	0	3
NY Rangers	0	3	0	0	3

First Period: Scoring: 1, Buffalo, Tsyplakov 8 (Varada, Peca), 4:53. Penalties: Leetch, Nyr (hooking), 9:18; Quintal, Nyr (tripping), 14:00.
Second Period: Scoring: 2, NY Rangers, Graves 19 (power play) (Leetch, Fleury), 10:29. 3, NY Rangers, Hlavac 16 (Nedved), 13:01. 4, NY Rangers, Hlavac 17 (Dvorak, Nedved), 15:28. Penalties: Rasmussen, Buf (interference), 2:00; Grand-pierre, Buf (interference), 4:37; Woolley, Buf (slashing), 10:07.
Third Period: Scoring: 5, Buffalo, Peca 17 (Varada, Tsyplakov), 7:31. 6, Buffalo, Brown 16 (power play) (D Ward, Satan), 16:49. Penalties: J Maclean, Nyr (Obstr hooking), 2:31; Zhitnik, Buf (slashing), 3:41; Varada, Buf (slashing), 10:06; Leetch, Nyr (slashing), 10:06; Tsyplakov, Buf (tripping), 12:38; J Maclean, Nyr (high sticking), 16:30.
Overtime: Scoring: None. 

SHOTS ON GOAL

Buffalo		8	10	16	3	--37
NY Rangers		7	12	9	3	--31

Power-play Conversions: Buf - 1 of 4, Nyr - 1 of 5. Goalies: Buffalo, Hasek (31 shots, 28 saves; record: 6-6-5). NY Rangers, Richter (37, 34; record: 20-23-8). A:18,200. Referees: Jackson, Ohalloran. Linesmen: Morin, Sericolo.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Buffalo					New York
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
B Holzinger Brown D Ward pierre Mckee Patrick Peca Primeau Rasmussen Ray S Barnes Sanderson Satan Smehlik Tsyplakov Varada Woolley Zhitnik	0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0	0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0	-2 -1 -1 +1 -1 -1 +2 even even even even even -2 even +2 +2 +1 even	0 1 2 1 0 0 5 0 0 1 4 2 4 4 5 2 4 2	Daigle Dvorak Fleury Graves Hatcher Hlavac J Maclean Kamensky Knuble Lacroix Leetch Lefebvre Nedved Pilon Quintal Schneider Taylor York	0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0	even +2 even even -1 +2 even even -2 -2 +1 even +2 -1 +1 even -2 even	0 0 8 5 0 2 2 0 1 1 3 0 4 1 1 3 0 0