1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Carolina	1	1	2	4
Atlanta	1	1	0	2

First Period: Scoring: 1, Atlanta, Emerson 6 (Buchberger, Shannon), 0:35. 2, Carolina, Ranheim 4 (Gelinas), 13:02. Penalties: Atlanta bench, served by Emerson (too many men on the ice), 2:57; Buzek, Atl (interference), 7:34; Francis, Car (Obstr tripping), 7:57.
Second Period: Scoring: 3, Carolina, Francis 10 (Kapanen, Roberts), 4:11. 4, Atlanta, Ferraro 8 (Tremblay, Buzek), 12:44. Penalties: Halko, Car (Obstr tripping), 0:20; Kapanen, Car (roughing), 10:35; Battaglia, Car (roughing), 10:35; Shannon, Atl (roughing), 10:35; Oneill, Car (slashing), 13:45; Sylvester, Atl (slashing), 13:45; Botterill, Atl (tripping), 16:58.
Third Period: Scoring: 5, Carolina, Kapanen 15 (Francis), 6:08. 6, Carolina, Kron 5 (Ranheim), 8:43. Penalties: E Ward, Atl (high sticking), 15:53; Oneill, Car (high sticking), 15:53.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Carolina		14	7	8	--29
Atlanta		11	12	3	--26

Power-play Conversions: Car - 0 of 3, Atl - 0 of 3. Goalies: Carolina, Irbe (26 shots, 24 saves; record: 12-12-0). Atlanta, Fankhouser (29, 25; record: 0-2-1). A:17,642. Referees: Shick, Zelkin. Linesmen: Morin, Orourke.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Carolina					Atlanta
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Battaglia Coffey Francis Gelinas Halko J Daniels Kapanen Kovalenko Kron Leschyshyn Malik Oneill Pratt Ranheim Ritchie Roberts T Westlund Wesley	0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0	0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0	even +2 even +3 +2 -1 even even +2 +1 even even even +2 even even even -1	5 3 2 1 0 0 5 1 1 2 2 2 0 3 0 0 0 2	Botterill Brunette Buchberger Buzek Donovan E Ward Emerson Ferraro G Murphy Galanov Garpenlov Karlsson Lambert Shannon Stefan Sylvester Tamer Tremblay	0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1	-1 -1 -1 -1 even even -1 even even even -1 even -1 even even even -2 -1	1 1 0 2 1 3 3 1 2 1 0 3 0 0 4 1 2 1