1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
New Jersey	2	0	0	2
Washington	2	0	2	4

First Period: Scoring: 1, Washington, Simon 24 (Oates, Metropolit), 3:26. 2, Washington, Murphy 10 (Bondra, Gonchar), 4:31. 3, New Jersey, Quint 4 (Malakhov, Brylin), 5:09. 4, New Jersey, Gomez 18 (Nemchinov, Lemieux), 8:02. Penalties: Sykora, N.J. (High sticking), 16:35.
Second Period: Scoring: None. Penalties: Gonchar, Was (hooking), 15:07.
Third Period: Scoring: 5, Washington, Dahlen 12 (Gonchar, Klee), 1:42. 6, Washington, Konowalchuk 14 (empty net) (Sacco), 19:23. Penalties: Niedermayer, N.J. ( Double roughing minor), 3:37; Oliwa, N.J. (Slashing), 3:37; Murphy, Was ( double roughing minor), 3:37; Simon, Was (roughing), 3:37; Reekie, Was (tripping), 6:21; Elias, N.J. (Cross checking), 12:51.

SHOTS ON GOAL

New Jersey		15	10	10	--35
Washington		7	7	6	--20

Missed penalty shots: Nemchinov, Njd, 11:40 second. Power-play Conversions: Njd - 0 of 2, Was - 0 of 2. Goalies: New Jersey, M Brodeur (19 shots, 16 saves; record: 37-15-8). Washington, Kolzig (35, 33; record: 33-18-10). A:18,672. Referee: Faucette. Linesmen: Driscoll, Kovachik.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

New Jersey					Washington
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Arnott Brylin Elias Gomez Holik K Daneyko Lemieux Madden Malakhov Morrison Nemchinov Niedermayer Oliwa Pandolfo Quint Rafalski Stevens Sykora	0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0	0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	-1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 even even -1 even -1 even even even -1 even -1	3 0 3 3 5 1 3 0 0 3 4 1 0 1 3 2 2 1	Bondra C Johansson Dahlen Gonchar J Halpern Klee Konowalchuk Mckenzie Metropolit Mironov Murphy Nikolishin Oates Reekie Sacco Simon Witt Yake	0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0	1 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0	even +2 +1 even +1 +2 +2 even even -1 even even +1 even +1 even +1 even	0 2 1 1 1 1 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 5 1 1 1