1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Detroit	1	6	0	7
Buffalo	0	0	2	2

First Period: Scoring: 1, Detroit, Brown 8 (Butsayev, Fedorov), 1:13. Penalties: Varada, Buf (roughing), 7:42; Shanahan, Det (Obstr hooking), 9:32; Fedorov, Det (Obstr holding), 13:43.
Second Period: Scoring: 2, Detroit, Larionov 7 (Holmstrom, M Lapointe), 2:27. 3, Detroit, Lidstrom 8 (Holmstrom, Larionov), 3:17. 4, Detroit, Ward 1 (Fedorov, D Laplante), 3:59. 5, Detroit, Verbeek 7 (Shanahan, Yzerman), 4:22. 6, Detroit, Holmstrom 7 (Chelios, Larionov), 9:58. 7, Detroit, Verbeek 8 (Yzerman), 11:03. 
Third Period: Scoring: 8, Buffalo, Satan 17 (Sanderson, Campbell), 11:23. 9, Buffalo, D Ward 4 (Primeau, Ray), 18:56. Penalties: Mckee, Buf (Obstr hooking), 12:38.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Detroit		6	11	10	--27
Buffalo		6	15	13	--34

Missed penalty shots: Satan, Buf, 4:34 third. Power-play Conversions: Det - 0 of 2, Buf - 0 of 2. Goalies: Detroit, Wregget (34 shots, 32 saves; record: 10-7-0). Buffalo, Roloson (22, 18; record: 1-5-3), Biron (3:17 of 2nd period, 5, 2), Roloson (10:02 of 2nd period). A:18,690. Referee: S Walkom. Linesmen: Driscoll, Gagnon.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Detroit					Buffalo
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Brown Butsayev Chelios D Laplante Dandenault Duchesne Fedorov Golubovsky Holmstrom Larionov Lidstrom M Lapointe Murphy Roest Shanahan Verbeek Ward Yzerman	1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0	0 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2	+1 -1 +3 -1 even +3 +2 even +3 +3 +2 +3 +2 -1 +2 +2 even +2	4 0 2 0 1 1 2 0 5 1 2 0 1 1 3 3 1 0	Afinogenov B Holzinger Brown Campbell D Ward Mckee Patrick Peca Primeau R Warrener Rasmussen Ray S Barnes Sanderson Sarich Satan Varada Zhitnik	0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0	0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0	-1 -1 -2 even +1 -3 -3 -2 even even -2 even -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2	2 3 1 1 5 2 1 0 5 3 2 0 0 1 3 1 1 3