1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
New Jersey	2	1	2	5
Carolina	0	1	0	1

First Period: Scoring: 1, New Jersey, Elias 2 (power play) (Sykora, Holik), 14:30. 2, New Jersey, Brylin 2 (Mogilny, S Stevens), 15:51. Penalties: Karpa, Car (holding), 13:30; Odonnell, N.J. (Cross checking), 16:36.
Second Period: Scoring: 3, Carolina, Tanabe 2 (power play) (Kapanen, Ozolinsh), 5:18. 4, New Jersey, R Mckay 2 (Holik, K Daneyko), 17:57. Penalties: T Stevenson, N.J. (Roughing), 3:55; S Stevens, N.J. (Interference), 7:24; Elias, N.J. (High sticking), 8:30; S Pellerin, Car (elbowing), 12:01.
Third Period: Scoring: 5, New Jersey, R Mckay 3 (Madden, Holik), 6:00. 6, New Jersey, Mogilny 2 (Gomez, White), 14:27. Penalties: Niedermayer, N.J. (Hooking), 2:12; Holik, N.J. (Hooking), 11:51.

SHOTS ON GOAL

New Jersey		10	17	12	--39
Carolina		6	6	3	--15

Power-play Conversions: Njd - 1 of 2, Car - 1 of 6. Goalies: New Jersey, M Brodeur (15 shots, 14 saves; record: 4-2-0). Carolina, Irbe (39, 34; record: 2-4-0). A:18,730. Referees: Fraser, Shick. Linesmen: Morin, D Mccourt.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

New Jersey					Carolina
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Brylin Corkum Elias Gomez Holik K Daneyko Madden Mogilny Nemchinov Niedermayer Odonnell Pandolfo R Mckay Rafalski S Stevens Sykora T Stevenson White	1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1	+2 even even +2 +2 even +1 +2 +1 even +3 even +2 +1 +2 even even +2	3 0 4 6 3 0 5 6 0 1 0 0 5 1 1 3 0 1	Adams Battaglia Brindamour Dimaio G Wesley Gelinas Hatcher J Daniels Kapanen Karpa Langdon Oneill Ozolinsh S Pellerin T Westlund Tanabe Vasicek Wallin	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0	even -1 -3 -2 -3 even -2 -1 -2 -1 even -1 even -1 -1 -1 even -1	0 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 2 1 0 2 1 0