1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Montreal	1	0	0	1
Washington	2	3	1	6

First Period: Scoring: 1, Montreal, Zholtok 12 (power play) (Brunet, Rivet), 2:11. 2, Washington, Gonchar 4 (power play) (Bondra, Oates), 6:18. 3, Washington, Toms 1 (Nikolishin), 7:59. Penalties: Bondra, Was (Obstr tripping), 1:06; Ward, Mon (tripping), 5:37; Simon, Was (high sticking), 16:00; Sacco, Was (slashing), 19:40.
Second Period: Scoring: 4, Washington, Gonchar 5 (Nikolishin, Dahlen), 2:10. 5, Washington, Simon 9 (Oates, Dahlen), 7:35. 6, Washington, Gonchar 6 (Bulis, Konowalchuk), 10:14. 
Third Period: Scoring: 7, Washington, Nikolishin 4 (Toms, Gonchar), 12:56. Penalties: S Corson, Mon (slashing), 10:46; Rucinsky, Mon (high sticking), 19:50; Klee, Was (hooking), 19:50.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Montreal		15	9	11	--35
Washington		11	13	18	--42

Power-play Conversions: Mon - 1 of 3, Was - 1 of 2. Goalies: Montreal, Hackett (42 shots, 36 saves; record: 7-15-4). Washington, Kolzig (35, 34; record: 11-13-7). A:10,155. Referees: Murphy, Shick. Linesmen: D Mccourt, Nowak.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Montreal					Washington
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Asham Brisebois Brunet Cummins Darby Dykhuis Lachance Poulin Rivet Rucinsky S Corson Stevenson Thornton Ulanov Ward Weinrich Zholtok Zubrus	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0	0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	-1 even even -2 -3 even -3 -3 -2 even -2 -1 -1 -4 -1 -1 even -1	2 0 4 1 0 1 0 3 2 4 5 1 3 2 1 0 4 2	Black Bondra Bulis C Johansson Dahlen Gonchar J Halpern Klee Konowalchuk Mironov Nikolishin Oates Reekie Ri Zednik Sacco Simon Toms Witt	0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0	0 1 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 0	even even +1 +1 +4 +3 even +1 +1 +2 +3 +1 +2 +1 even +1 +3 +1	3 1 2 0 2 6 1 0 4 0 4 0 1 3 3 7 3 2