1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
New Jersey	4	4	1	9
Atlanta	0	0	0	0

First Period: Scoring: 1, New Jersey, Madden 12 (shorthanded) (Nemchinov), 9:15. 2, New Jersey, Stevens 5 (Arnott, Gomez), 11:47. 3, New Jersey, Elias 29 (penalty shot), 14:36. 4, New Jersey, Nemchinov 9 (Niedermayer), 19:32. Penalties: Lemieux, N.J. (Hooking), 8:28; Buchberger, Atl (hooking), 14:17; Kinnear, Atl (holding), 20:00.
Second Period: Scoring: 5, New Jersey, Pandolfo 5 (unassisted), 7:20. 6, New Jersey, Rafalski 5 (Holik, Brylin), 10:27. 7, New Jersey, Madden 13 (Morrison, Malakhov), 14:46. 8, New Jersey, Pandolfo 6 (Madden, Oliwa), 15:00. Penalties: Kinnear, Atl (high sticking), 17:08; Stevens, N.J. (Misconduct), 17:08; Buchberger, Atl (misconduct), 17:08.
Third Period: Scoring: 9, New Jersey, Gomez 17 (power play) (Arnott, Elias), 8:23. Penalties: Johnson, Atl served by Sylvester (instigator, fighting major, misconduct), 8:00; Oliwa, N.J. (Fighting major), 8:00.

SHOTS ON GOAL

New Jersey		13	13	12	--38
Atlanta		8	7	4	--19

Power-play Conversions: Njd - 1 of 4, Atl - 0 of 1. Goalies: New Jersey, M Brodeur (19 shots, 19 saves; record: 37-14-8). Atlanta, Rhodes (19, 13; record: 3-8-2), N Maracle (10:27 of 2nd period, 19, 16). A:18,545. Referees: Degrace, Larue. Linesmen: Collins, Morin.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

New Jersey					Atlanta
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Arnott Brylin Elias Gomez Holik K Daneyko Lemieux Madden Malakhov Morrison Nemchinov Niedermayer Oliwa Pandolfo Rafalski Stevens Sykora White	0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 0 0	2 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0	+1 +2 even +2 +1 +3 +1 +4 +4 +2 +2 +3 +2 +2 +1 +1 +1 +2	1 0 2 5 3 2 2 6 1 0 1 0 1 3 2 2 7 0	Brunette Buchberger Buzek Clark Domenichelli E Ward Emerson Ferraro Galanov Guolla Johnson Karlsson Kinnear Ndur Stapleton Stefan Sylvester Tremblay	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	-2 -1 -1 -5 -3 -3 -2 -1 even -3 -1 -1 -1 -2 -3 -1 -1 -4	1 1 2 0 0 0 3 1 2 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 2 1