Boston at Hartford

Shots

	1	2	3	OT	T
Boston	15	8	15	0	38
Hartford	16	6	9	0	31

Goals

	1	2	3	OT	T
Boston	1	2	2	0	5
Hartford	1	1	2	0	4

Scoring Summary

Period 1
1. HARTFORD, GONCHAR 9 (MURPHY, CRAVEN) (PP), 19:12
2. BOSTON, SHEPPARD 27 (YORK, ELLETT), 19:47

PENALTIES: C. WOLANIN BOS (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 02:42, K. BUCHBERGER BOS (HOOKING, Minor) 05:53, S. GONCHAR HAR (ROUGHING, Minor) 06:43, M. RICCI BOS (FIGHTING) 14:58, C. RUSSELL HAR (FIGHTING) 14:58, K. BUCHBERGER BOS (ELBOWING, Minor) 18:24, L. RICHARDSON BOS (, ) 18:31, E. LINDROS HAR (, ) 18:31

Period 2
3. BOSTON, REICHEL 6 (HOGUE, LAMBERT), 07:09
4. BOSTON, BUCHBERGER 1 (HAWERCHUK), 15:10
5. HARTFORD, FITZGERALD 13 (GRATTON, GONCHAR), 17:38

Period 3
6. HARTFORD, FITZGERALD 14 (GRATTON, GONCHAR), 02:49
7. HARTFORD, CRAVEN 9 (SMYTH, MCINTYRE), 12:01
8. BOSTON, BRASHEAR 9 (ELLETT, HOGUE), 15:14
9. BOSTON, ELLETT 12 (RICCI, HOGUE), 15:27

PENALTIES: K. BUCHBERGER BOS (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 12:54, T. AMONTE HAR (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 12:54

Goalie Statistics

Ed Belfour (BOS), 27 saves out of 31 shots, W, 17-12-4
Tom Barrasso (HAR), 4 saves out of 4 shots
Kirk McLean (HAR), 29 saves out of 34 shots, L, 11-14-0

Power Play Conversions

Boston 0 for 1
Hartford 1 for 3

Game Stars

1 - Dave Ellett (BOS)
2 - Benoit Hogue (BOS)
3 - Sergei Gonchar (HAR)

Player Statistics

Boston

G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Bobby Holik 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 9 Denny Lambert 0 1 1 -1 0 6 4 22 Stephan Lebeau 0 0 0 Even 0 3 2 6 Peter Forsberg 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 6 Benoit Hogue 0 3 3 +5 0 2 4 27 Glen Wesley 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 22 Bryan McCabe 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 9 Mike Ricci 0 1 1 +2 5 2 0 12 Luke Richardson 0 0 0 -1 5 0 1 19 Donald Brashear 1 0 1 +3 0 2 5 15 Alexander Karpovtsev 0 0 0 +1 0 4 1 22 Dale Hawerchuk 0 1 1 +1 0 1 0 18 Ray Sheppard 1 0 1 -2 0 4 0 24 Craig Wolanin 0 0 0 +2 2 3 2 15 Robert Reichel 1 0 1 -1 0 4 2 20 Jason York 0 1 1 +2 0 1 1 18 Dave Ellett 1 2 3 +3 0 3 1 14 Kelly Buchberger 1 0 1 +1 6 2 1 17

Hartford

G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Ryan Smyth 0 1 1 Even 0 1 0 5 Chris Gratton 0 2 2 Even 0 3 2 11 Igor Ulanov 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 7 Eric Lindros 0 0 0 Even 5 5 4 21 John McIntyre 0 1 1 +1 0 3 3 16 Gord Murphy 0 1 1 -2 0 2 4 26 Martin St. Louis 0 0 0 -1 0 1 2 20 Stu Barnes 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 19 Jeff Beukeboom 0 0 0 Even 0 2 2 22 Murray Craven 1 1 2 -2 0 2 0 12 Doug Weight 0 0 0 Even 0 1 1 13 Cam Russell 0 0 0 -1 5 0 1 19 Pavel Bure 0 0 0 -2 0 2 1 24 Sean Hill 0 0 0 -1 0 1 1 18 Tom Fitzgerald 2 0 2 Even 0 2 0 13 Adam Burt 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 14 Sergei Gonchar 1 2 3 -1 2 3 1 15 Tony Amonte 0 0 0 Even 2 1 2 22

Financial

Attendance: 15752
Net Profit: $255,182.00

Game Notes

Mike Ricci and Cam Russell fight to a draw
Stephan Lebeau injured at 18:24 of the 1st Period
Luke Richardson and Eric Lindros fight to a draw
Doug Weight injured at 14:58 of the 2nd Period
Tom Barrasso enters game at 15:27 of 3rd period

Minor League Box Score

Providence     19
Louisville     4
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Jay McKee 11 (Darren Langdon, Jason Wiemer)
Frantisek Kucera 8 (Craig Adams, Darcy Tucker)
Steve Sullivan 31 (Erik Rasmussen, Rhett Warrener)
Christian Laflamme 14 (Scott Gomez, Rod BrindAmour)
Erik Rasmussen 22 (Aki Berg, Shawn Thornton)
Craig Adams 16 (Richard Zednik, Michael Nylander)
Darren Langdon 21 (Mike Hudson, Pavol Demitra)
Rhett Warrener 15 (Jaroslav Modry, Doug Houda)
Rod BrindAmour 30 (Scott Ferguson, Todd Simpson)
Erik Rasmussen 23 (Craig Adams, Erik Rasmussen)
Craig Adams 17 (Shawn Thornton, Aki Berg)
Scott Gomez 14 (Richard Zednik, Mike Hudson)
Darren Langdon 22 (Darren Langdon, Jason Wiemer)
Todd Simpson 16 (Frantisek Kucera, Rod BrindAmour)
Scott Ferguson 8 (Darcy Tucker, Rod BrindAmour)
Jaroslav Modry 13 (Pavol Demitra, Rod BrindAmour)
Erik Rasmussen 24 (Richard Zednik, Shawn Thornton)
Erik Rasmussen 25 (Steve Sullivan, Pavol Demitra)
Richard Zednik 26 (Shawn Thornton, Darren Langdon)

Dainius Zubrus 29 (Alex Tanguay, Marc Savard)
Curtis Brown 22 (Sergei Samsonov, Tomi Kallio)
Brian Campbell 15 (Scott Hannan, Michal Rozsival)
Gordie Dwyer 16 (Joel Kwiatkowski, Jason Allison)

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Goalies
Providence: Tim Thomas
Louisville: Martin Biron
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