Period 1
	Mon	Buf	Time		Scoring Detail
	1	0	2:58		Ro.Lang 1	( To.Kostopoulos, An.Markov )
	1	1	7:40		Th.Vanek 1	( Te.Numminen, To.Lydman )

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	Pa.Brisebois	Mon	4:20		Roughing
	Ry.O'Byrne	Mon	9:35		Interference
	De.Roy	Buf	10:26		Hooking
	Te.Numminen	Buf	10:36		Tripping
	Al.Tanguay	Mon	11:28		Tripping

	Period 2
	Mon	Buf	Time		Scoring Detail
	1	1			No goals scored.

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	Th.Vanek	Buf	4:12		Hooking
	Te.Numminen	Buf	18:53		Holding

	Period 3
	Mon	Buf	Time		Scoring Detail
	1	1			No goals scored.

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	St.Begin	Mon	5:58		Tripping
	St.Begin	Mon	5:58		Slashing
	Gu.Latendresse	Mon	15:20		Interference

	OT
	Mon	Buf	Time		Scoring Detail
	1	1			No goals scored.

	Player	Team	Time		Penalty
	Ja.Spacek	Buf	4:50		Tripping

	Shootout
	Mon	Buf
	1	2
	Mon	Buf			Shootout Detail
	0	1	Mon		Ro.Lang	Missed
	0	1	Buf		Al.Kotalik	Made
	0	2	Mon		Sa.Koivu	Missed
	0	2	Buf		Dr.Stafford	Made

Shots on goal	1	2	3	OT	---	F
Montreal Canadiens	7	11	6	4	---	28
Buffalo Sabres	15	10	10	1	---	36

Power-play opportunites
	Canadiens	0-of-4
	Sabres	0-of-6

Goaltenders:
	Canadiens	Ca.Price	-O (36 shots, 35 saves)	Record: 0-0-1
	Sabres	Ry.Miller	-W (28 shots, 27 saves)	Record: 1-0-0

Penalty Shots:

Individual Stats
Montreal Canadiens
	PM, S			PM, S
Steve Begin	0, 1		Patrice Brisebois	0, 1
Mathieu Dandenault	0, 2		Josh Gorges	0, 0
Roman Hamrlik	0, 7		Saku Koivu	0, 1
Mike Komisarek	0, 2		Sergei Kostitsyn	+1, 1
Andrei Kostitsyn	-1, 1		Tom Kostopoulos	+1, 3
Alexei Kovalev	0, 2		Robert Lang	+1, 1
Maxim Lapierre	0, 1		Guillaume Latendresse	-1, 2
Andrei Markov	0, 2		Ryan O'Byrne	0, 0
Tomas Plekanec	-1, 1		Carey Price	0, 0
Alex Tanguay	0, 0
Buffalo Sabres
	PM, S			PM, S
Maxim Afinogenov	-1, 1		Jochen Hecht	+1, 4
Patrick Kaleta	0, 0		Ales Kotalik	-1, 1
Toni Lydman	0, 2		Clarke MacArthur	0, 2
Adam Mair	-1, 0		Ryan Miller	0, 0
Teppo Numminen	0, 0		Daniel Paille	0, 3
Andrew Peters	0, 1		Jason Pominville	0, 4
Craig Rivet	+1, 1		Derek Roy	0, 2
Andrej Sekera	-1, 2		Jaroslav Spacek	0, 0
Drew Stafford	+1, 4		Henrik Tallinder	0, 1
Thomas Vanek	+1, 8

Three stars of the game:

1. Thomas Vanek

2. Ryan Miller

3. Carey Price

Attendance: 18,690

Referees: Paul Devorski, Ian Walsh

Linesmen: Derek Amell, Scott Cherrey