1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Washington	2	0	3	5
Tampa Bay	1	1	0	2

First Period: Scoring: 1, Washington, Witt 1 (Whitfield), 2:44. 2, Tampa Bay, Ekman 2 (M Johnson, Kubina), 5:14. 3, Washington, Zednik 9 (Zettler, Khristich), 13:11. Penalties: Ekman, T.B. (Boarding), 9:04; Simon, Was (high sticking), 9:40.
Second Period: Scoring: 4, Tampa Bay, St Louis 7 (Holzinger, Modin), 2:33. Penalties: Zettler, Was (cross checking), 13:02; Millar, T.B. (Obstr hooking), 14:50.
Third Period: Scoring: 5, Washington, Bondra 24 (power play) (Konowalchuk, Halpern), 13:57. 6, Washington, Simon 9 (Nikolishin), 16:30. 7, Washington, Halpern 7 (empty net) (Simon), 18:26. Penalties: C Johansson, Was (interference), 6:00; R Johnson, T.B. (Slashing), 12:27.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Washington		12	8	13	--33
Tampa Bay		8	11	10	--29

Power-play Conversions: Was - 1 of 3, Tam - 0 of 3. Goalies: Washington, Kolzig (29 shots, 27 saves; record: 20-16-6). Tampa Bay, Weekes (32, 28; record: 10-17-2). A:11,854. Referees: Joannette, B Mccreary. Linesmen: Driscoll, S Provost.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Washington					Tampa Bay
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Bondra Bulis C Johansson Cote Dahlen Halpern Herr Khristich Klee Konowalchuk Nikolishin Oates Reekie Simon Whitfield Witt Zednik Zettler	1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0	0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1	+1 -1 +2 even even +1 +1 even even even even even even +3 +1 +2 even even	2 2 3 0 0 2 1 0 2 2 3 1 1 5 0 6 2 1	B Richards Drulia Dwyer Ekman Gusev Holzinger Keefe Kharitonov Kubina M Johnson Millar Modin P Mara R Johnson Sarich St Louis Warriner Zyuzin	0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0	even even even +1 -1 -2 -1 -1 even +1 -1 -2 -1 -1 even -2 even -1	2 0 0 3 0 1 2 2 4 3 0 2 3 2 2 1 0 2