Montreal at Buffalo

Shots

	1	2	3	OT	T
Montreal	11	7	12	0	30
Buffalo	4	9	6	0	19

Goals

	1	2	3	OT	T
Montreal	1	1	1	0	3
Buffalo	1	4	2	0	7

Scoring Summary

Period 1
1. MONTREAL, FERENCE 3 (DIMITRAKOS), 04:39
2. BUFFALO, ZUBOV 2 (UNASSISTED), 04:51

PENALTIES: M. MOULSON MTL (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor, Misconduct) 11:14, J. ODUYA MTL (ROUGHING, Minor) 14:14, K. FOSTER BUF (HIGHSTICKING, Double Minor) 14:14, B. RICHARDS BUF (BOARDING, Minor) 19:03

Period 2
3. BUFFALO, BRIERE 8 (VARADA, JONSSON), 11:30
4. BUFFALO, BUTSAYEV 9 (HEINZE, LILES), 11:55
5. BUFFALO, BUTSAYEV 10 (HEINZE, DRURY), 12:24
6. MONTREAL, TKACHUK 11 (DAIGLE, ALFREDSSON), 16:22
7. BUFFALO, BOURQUE 2 (RICHARDS, RYDER), 17:43

PENALTIES: N. DIMITRAKOS MTL (ROUGHING, Minor) 01:12

Period 3
8. MONTREAL, CORVO 5 (DAIGLE, SULLIVAN), 12:36
9. BUFFALO, BUTSAYEV 11 (RYDER, JONSSON), 16:50
10. BUFFALO, RYDER 3 (DRURY, ZUBOV), 17:18

PENALTIES: Y. BUTSAYEV BUF (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 13:50, J. LILES BUF (CHARGING, Minor) 14:35

Goalie Statistics

Ray Emery (MTL), 8 saves out of 13 shots, L, 3-1-0
Niklas Backstrom (MTL), 4 saves out of 6 shots
Johan Hedberg (BUF), 27 saves out of 30 shots, W, 6-5-1

Power Play Conversions

Montreal 0 for 4
Buffalo 0 for 2

Game Stars

1 - Yuri Butsayev (BUF)
2 - Michael Ryder (BUF)
3 - Sergei Zubov (BUF)

Player Statistics

Montreal

G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Steve Sullivan 0 1 1 Even 0 3 1 23 Jesse Winchester 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 4 Gary Roberts 0 0 0 -1 0 2 3 19 Adam Foote 0 0 0 +1 0 3 4 26 Chris Gratton 0 0 0 Even 0 1 2 3 Alexandre Daigle 0 2 2 Even 0 1 1 24 Niko Dimitrakos 0 1 1 Even 2 2 2 27 Daniel Alfredsson 0 1 1 -1 0 4 0 19 Daymond Langkow 0 0 0 -3 0 1 1 10 Matt Moulson 0 0 0 Even 12 0 0 3 Johnny Oduya 0 0 0 -3 2 1 1 14 Sean Hill 0 0 0 -3 0 0 1 10 Andrew Ference 1 0 1 -1 0 2 3 23 Craig Simpson 0 0 0 -3 0 2 0 10 Stephane Yelle 0 0 0 -3 0 0 1 10 Joe Corvo 1 0 1 Even 0 3 2 26 Keith Tkachuk 1 0 1 -1 0 2 1 23 Sami Salo 0 0 0 -2 0 3 0 20

Buffalo

G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Owen Nolan 0 0 0 +1 0 1 2 16 Daniel Briere 1 0 1 +1 0 3 1 22 Sergei Zubov 1 1 2 +3 0 2 4 20 Brad Richards 0 1 1 Even 2 1 0 14 Cody McCormick 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 0 Rene Bourque 1 0 1 Even 0 1 0 16 Matt Hendricks 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 0 Chris Drury 0 2 2 +3 0 0 0 24 John-Michael Liles 0 1 1 +1 2 3 1 26 Michael Ryder 1 2 3 +2 0 2 0 17 Yuri Butsayev 3 0 3 +3 2 3 0 24 Andrei Markov 0 0 0 +1 0 0 1 26 Kurtis Foster 0 0 0 Even 4 2 1 13 Steve Heinze 0 2 2 +1 0 0 1 23 Jeff Tambellini 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 0 Niklas Kronwall 0 0 0 Even 0 0 2 13 Vaclav Varada 0 1 1 +1 0 1 1 14 Kenny Jonsson 0 2 2 +3 0 0 1 25

Financial

Attendance: 16750
Net Profit: $1,206,000.00

Game Notes

Niklas Backstrom enters game at 17:43 of 2nd period
Yuri Butsayev scores a hat trick

Minor League Box Score

Yellowknif     1
Baltimore      6
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Brad Richardson 6 (Konstantin Koltsov, Jay McClement)

Clarke MacArthur 4 (James Wisniewski, Mikko Koivu)
Clarke MacArthur 5 (Brian Savage, Andrew Alberts)
unknown (Travis Zajac, David Backes)
Travis Zajac 4 (Marek Malik, Mike Green)
Mikko Koivu 3 (Chris Kunitz, Joni Pitkanen)
Brian Savage 1 (Kristian Huselius, Antti Miettinen)

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Goalies
Yellowknif: Manny Legace
Baltimore: Corey Crawford
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