NewJersey at Pittsburgh

Shots
123OTT
NewJersey 7 10 13 0 30
Pittsburgh 13 4 8 0 25
Goals
123OTT
NewJersey 1 2 2 0 5
Pittsburgh 0 0 0 0 0


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. NEWJERSEY, AUDETTE 21 (JANNEY, TIKKANEN), 12:37

PENALTIES: D. AUDETTE NJD (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 02:05, K. HALLER PIT (HOOKING, Minor) 02:05, B. MCGRATTAN PIT (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 02:52, J. CUMMINS PIT (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 07:26

Period 2
2. NEWJERSEY, DESJARDINS 9 (ZELEPUKIN, SWEENEY) (PP), 04:11
3. NEWJERSEY, DESJARDINS 10 (JANNEY, SWEENEY), 04:25

PENALTIES: B. MCGRATTAN PIT (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 03:18, B. MCGRATTAN PIT (HOOKING, Minor, Misconduct) 15:12, T. LINDEN PIT (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 17:49

Period 3
4. NEWJERSEY, TIKKANEN 27 (JANNEY, AUDETTE), 08:45
5. NEWJERSEY, NASLUND 11 (MACINNIS, NOLAN), 09:33



Goalie Statistics

Tim Thomas (NJD), 25 saves out of 25 shots, W, 12-6-1
Ed Belfour (PIT), 19 saves out of 24 shots, L, 15-11-2
Tommy Salo (PIT), 6 saves out of 6 shots

Power Play Conversions

NewJersey 1 for 5
Pittsburgh 0 for 0

Game Stars

1 - Tim Thomas (NJD)
2 - Eric Desjardins (NJD)
3 - Craig Janney (NJD)

Player Statistics

NewJersey

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Craig Janney          0  3  3    +3   0  1   1 21
Valery Zelepukin      0  1  1    +1   0  2   1 18
Jason Blake           0  0  0    +1   0  0   0  5
Brett Hull            0  0  0  Even   0  4   0 22
Esa Tikkanen          1  1  2    +2   0  3   0 17
Calle Johansson       0  0  0    +1   0  0   0 24
Owen Nolan            0  1  1    +1   0  0   1  5
Eric Desjardins       2  0  2    +3   0  4   1 22
Kirk Muller           0  0  0  Even   0  2   1 13
Don Sweeney           0  2  2    +3   0  3   2 23
Steve Yzerman         0  0  0  Even   0  3   1 19
Markus Naslund        1  0  1    +1   0  1   0  5
Sylvain Cote          0  0  0  Even   0  3   1 15
Donald Audette        1  1  2    +3   2  1   0 20
Fredrik Olausson      0  0  0  Even   0  0   0 13
Brian Bellows         0  0  0  Even   0  0   1 12
Al MacInnis           0  1  1    +1   0  0   4 23
German Titov          0  0  0  Even   0  3   1 20
   
Pittsburgh

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Boris Mironov         0  0  0    -1   0  0   1 23
Alexei Kovalev        0  0  0    -3   0  0   0 20
Trevor Linden         0  0  0    -1   2  2   0 20
Pat Lafontaine        0  0  0    -1   0  2   0  6
Dan Keczmer           0  0  0    -3   0  0   1 22
Mike Eastwood         0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  2
Derian Hatcher        0  0  0  Even   0  1   1 16
Kevin Haller          0  0  0    -3   2  4   2 21
Brian McGrattan       0  0  0    -1  16  1   0 18
Vincent Damphousse    0  0  0    -2   0  2   2 15
Jeff Beukeboom        0  0  0  Even   0  1   0  2
Gary Suter            0  0  0    -1   0  2   1 23
Andre Roy             0  0  0    -3   0  4   0 23
Jim Cummins           0  0  0  Even   2  2   2 15
Scott Niedermayer     0  0  0  Even   0  1   1 12
Mark Recchi           0  0  0  Even   0  0   0 17
Scott Walker          0  0  0  Even   0  2   3 22
Tom Fitzgerald        0  0  0  Even   0  1   1 15
   

Financial

Attendance: 16753
Net Profit: $452,331.00

Game Notes

Tommy Salo enters game at 09:33 of 3rd period

Minor League Box Score

Utica          2
Cleveland      3
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Andrei Nikolishin 25 (Scott Allison, Pascal Rheaume)
Geoff Sanderson 28 (Blake Sloan, Kenny Jonsson)

Michal Handzus 35 (Steven Reinprecht, Marc Savard)
Mark Eaton 22 (Jeff Halpern, Shane Hnidy)
David Vyborny 41 (Henrik Zetterberg, Francis Lessard)

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Goalies
Utica: Andrew Raycroft
Cleveland: Jocelyn Thibault
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