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

First Period: Scoring: None. Penalties: Kovalenko, Car (Ob holding the stick), 13:39.
Second Period: Scoring: 1, Carolina, Francis 13 (power play) (Kovalenko, Kapanen), 12:44. 2, Carolina, Kapanen 18 (power play) (Francis, Kovalenko), 14:15. Penalties: Grosek, Buf (tripping), 1:18; Mckee, Buf (holding), 6:00; Rasmussen, Buf (boarding), 10:50; R Warrener, Buf (hooking), 13:49; Irbe, Car served by Roberts (interference), 14:38; Pratt, Car (cross checking), 19:36.
Third Period: Scoring: 3, Carolina, Roberts 10 (Halko, Kron), 7:53. 4, Carolina, Roberts 11 (power play) (Oneill, Kron), 11:13. 5, Buffalo, Peca 7 (D Ward, Rasmussen), 18:42. Penalties: Smehlik, Buf (cross checking), 9:38; T Westlund, Car (tripping), 14:16.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Buffalo		5	9	8	--22
Carolina		4	6	7	--17

Power-play Conversions: Buf - 0 of 4, Car - 3 of 5. Goalies: Buffalo, Biron (17 shots, 13 saves; record: 16-13-2). Carolina, Irbe (22, 21; record: 15-17-7). A:16,345. Referees: Marouelli, Watson. Linesmen: Champoux, Kovachik.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Buffalo					Carolina
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Afinogenov B Holzinger Brown D Ward Grosek Hamel Mckee Patrick Peca R Warrener Rasmussen S Barnes Sanderson Satan Smehlik Taylor Woolley Zhitnik	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	even even even +1 -1 even -1 even +1 -1 +1 even even -1 +1 -1 even +1	0 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 5 1 1 2 0 1 2 2 2 1	Coffey Francis Gelinas Halko J Daniels Kapanen Kovalenko Kron Leschyshyn Malik Manderville Oneill Pratt Ranheim Roberts T Westlund Tanabe Wesley	0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0	0 1 0 1 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0	+1 even even +1 even even even even -1 -1 even even even even even even even even	0 1 0 1 1 4 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 0