1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Florida	2	1	0	3
New Jersey	3	1	0	4

First Period: Scoring: 1, New Jersey, Stevens 1 (Holik), 1:38. 2, New Jersey, Sykora 1 (Malakhov, Elias), 4:02. 3, New Jersey, Brylin 1 (Mckay, Holik), 15:28. 4, Florida, Niedermayer 1 (Mellanby, Hicks), 16:55. 5, Florida, Worrell 1 (R Svehla), 19:43. Penalties: Worrell, Fla (roughing), 17:33.
Second Period: Scoring: 6, New Jersey, Gomez 1 (unassisted), 7:21. 7, Florida, Sillinger 1 (P Bure, Pitlick), 13:50. 
Third Period: Scoring: None. Penalties: Malakhov, N.J. (Interference), 5:34; Vernon, Fla (misconduct), 20:00; Lemieux, N.J. (Misconduct), 20:00.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Florida		6	11	6	--23
New Jersey		16	10	7	--33

Power-play Conversions: Fla - 0 of 1, Njd - 0 of 1. Goalies: Florida, Vernon (33 shots, 29 saves; record: 0-1-0). New Jersey, M Brodeur (23, 20; record: 1-0-0). A:15,024. Referees: Fraser, Larue. Linesmen: Champoux, Scapinello.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Florida					New Jersey
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Barrie Hedican Hicks Kozlov Kvasha Laus Mellanby Niedermayer P Bure Parrish Pitlick R Svehla Sillinger Simpson Spacek Whitney Wilson Worrell	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1	0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0	-1 +1 even -1 even even +1 even -2 even +1 +1 even -3 even even -2 even	0 1 1 1 0 0 2 3 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 3 0 4	Arnott Bombardir Brylin Elias Gomez Holik K Daneyko Lemieux Madden Malakhov Mckay Mogilny Nemchinov Pandolfo Rafalski Stevens Sykora White	0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0	0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	even even +2 even -1 +2 even -1 even -1 +2 -1 even even +2 +1 even even	0 0 2 1 5 5 0 3 1 4 0 4 0 2 2 3 1 0