1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Boston	2	0	1	3
Montreal	0	2	2	4

First Period: Scoring: 1, Boston, Knuble 12 (Axelsson, Rolston), 10:06. 2, Boston, Nickulas 3 (Thornton, Gill), 13:26. Penalties: Laflamme, Mon (holding), 1:03; Knuble, Bos (slashing), 4:53; Brunet, Mon (tripping), 5:08; Eloranta, Bos (holding), 10:59.
Second Period: Scoring: 3, Montreal, Brunet 14 (power play) (Zholtok, Petrov), 8:05. 4, Montreal, Souray 2 (Brunet, Brisebois), 16:51. Penalties: S Corson, Mon (high sticking), 0:58; Van Impe, Bos (Obstr tripping), 2:26; Eloranta, Bos (high sticking), 6:58; Eloranta, Bos (hooking), 18:00; K Mclaren, Bos (roughing), 18:00; S Corson, Mon (roughing), 18:00.
Third Period: Scoring: 5, Montreal, Bouillon 3 (power play) (S Corson, Rucinsky), 5:43. 6, Boston, K Mclaren 8 (Thornton, Knuble), 7:51. 7, Montreal, Zholtok 25 (Petrov, Brisebois), 19:45. Penalties: Heinze, Bos (high sticking), 3:59.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Boston		10	6	8	--24
Montreal		9	14	6	--29

Power-play Conversions: Bos - 0 of 3, Mon - 2 of 6. Goalies: Boston, Tallas (29 shots, 25 saves; record: 4-11-4). Montreal, Hackett (24, 21; record: 21-22-7). A:21,273. Referees: Gregson, Jackson. Linesmen: Gauthier, Champoux.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Boston					Montreal
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Axelsson Eloranta Gill Heinze Henderson K Belanger K Mclaren Knuble Mann Nickulas Rolston Samsonov Savage Smith Sweeney Thornton Timander Van Impe	0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0	+1 even even even even even even +1 even even even +1 even even +1 even even +1	0 1 1 1 1 0 2 3 0 3 3 2 3 1 1 1 1 0	Belanger Bouillon Brisebois Brunet Darby J Lind Lachance Laflamme Petrov Poulin Rivet Rucinsky S Corson Savage Souray Stevenson Zholtok Zubrus	0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0	0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0	even -1 even +1 -1 even even -1 -1 even even -1 +1 +1 even -1 -1 -1	1 1 3 2 1 0 2 1 5 1 3 2 1 1 0 1 1 3