1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Carolina	1	1	1	3
Buffalo	3	2	2	7

First Period: Scoring: 1, Buffalo, Sanderson 2 (S Barnes, Campbell), 2:25. 2, Carolina, Roberts 2 (power play) (Gelinas, Hill), 6:02. 3, Buffalo, Satan 4 (Grosek), 9:22. 4, Buffalo, Sanderson 3 (power play) (Peca), 17:46. Penalties: Campbell, Buf (Obstr hooking), 4:28; Brown, Buf (hooking), 12:19; Ranheim, Car (interference), 16:40.
Second Period: Scoring: 5, Carolina, Kapanen 5 (Francis, Battaglia), 4:00. 6, Buffalo, Rasmussen 2 (S Barnes, Patrick), 11:52. 7, Buffalo, Brown 4 (Grosek, Patrick), 17:04. Penalties: Tanabe, Car (Obstr holding), 5:53; Peca, Buf (slashing), 7:22; Sanderson, Buf (interference), 17:23.
Third Period: Scoring: 8, Buffalo, Peca 1 (Zhitnik, Varada), 0:34. 9, Buffalo, Rasmussen 3 (Smehlik, S Barnes), 7:35. 10, Carolina, Kapanen 6 (Kovalenko, Malik), 14:09. Penalties: Brown, Buf (Obstr hooking), 4:58; Varada, Buf (elbowing), 9:30; Kovalenko, Car (roughing), 19:24; Ray, Buf (roughing), 19:24.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Carolina		10	4	6	--20
Buffalo		13	9	6	--28

Power-play Conversions: Car - 1 of 6, Buf - 1 of 2. Goalies: Carolina, Irbe (13 shots, 10 saves), Fichaud (start of 2nd, 15, 11; record: 1-1-0). Buffalo, Biron (20, 17; record: 1-0-0). A:15,434. Referee: Gregson. Linesmen: Champoux, Gauthier.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Carolina					Buffalo
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Battaglia Francis Gelinas Hill J Daniels Kapanen Kovalenko Kron Leschyshyn Malik Manderville Oneill Pratt Ranheim Roberts T Westlund Tanabe Wesley	0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0	1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	even +1 -4 +1 even +1 -3 -4 -3 even even -1 -2 even -1 -1 -2 -2	1 2 1 2 1 4 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 2 0 0 2	Brown Campbell D Ward Grosek Mckee Patrick Peca Pittis R Warrener Rasmussen Ray S Barnes Sanderson Satan Smehlik Varada Woolley Zhitnik	1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0	0 1 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 1	+2 +1 -1 +2 +1 +2 even even +1 +2 even +3 +3 +2 +1 -1 +2 even	2 0 1 0 1 0 6 0 0 3 1 1 6 3 1 0 1 2