Pittsburgh Penguins vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Tuesday, December 26, 2000 · HSBC Arena
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Buffalo Sabres 5–3 on Tuesday, December 26, 2000 at HSBC Arena. The Penguins outshot the Sabres 34–24.
Goals came from Vaclav Varada, Josef Beranek, Maxim Afinogenov, Vladimir Tsyplakov, Robert Lang, Martin Straka, Alex Kovalev and Jan Hrdina.
Garth Snow made 21 saves on 24 shots for the win; Martin Biron stopped 16 of 18.
Scoring
1st period
Vaclav Varada (6)Chris Gratton (9), Maxim Afinogenov (13)0–105:05 BUF
Josef Beranek (5)Jan Hrdina (10), Hans Jonsson (6)1–105:47 PIT
Maxim Afinogenov (7)Vladimir Tsyplakov (3), Jay McKee (3)1–207:39 BUF
Vladimir Tsyplakov (4)Richard Smehlik (7), Maxim Afinogenov (14)1–310:35 BUF
Robert Lang (12)Alex Kovalev (21), Janne Laukkanen (6)2–317:51 PIT
2nd period
Martin Straka (12)Josef Beranek (8), Jan Hrdina (11)3–302:09 PIT · 
Alex Kovalev (18)Robert Lang (24), Martin Straka (21)4–315:53 PIT
3rd period
Jan Hrdina (8)Jaromir Jagr (18), Jeff Norton (5)5–302:21 PIT
Team stats
PITBUF
3424
54%46%
1/40/5
1412
317
88
1818
34
Penalties
- 2:26 into the first period
Garth Snow · delaying game2 min - 12:42 into the first period
Rhett Warrener · roughing2 min - 12:42 into the first periodDarius Kasparaitis · elbowing2 min
- 18:41 into the first periodDarius Kasparaitis · tripping2 min
- 1:46 into the second periodMiroslav Satan · interference2 min
- 11:01 into the second periodKip Miller · elbowing2 min
- 16:19 into the second periodChris Gratton · high sticking2 min
- 0:04 into the third periodJan Hrdina · roughing2 min
- 5:35 into the third periodVaclav Varada · high sticking2 min
- 8:07 into the third periodJ-P Dumont · slashing2 min
- 8:07 into the third periodJeff Norton · slashing2 min
- 10:28 into the third periodHans Jonsson · slashing2 min
- 14:26 into the third periodMaxim Afinogenov · cross checking2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 38Jan HrdinaC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 2 | 18:20 |
| 18Josef BeranekL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 6 | 19:41 |
| 20Robert LangC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 21:56 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 27:22 |
| 82Martin StrakaC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 22:09 |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 18:29 |
| 5Janne LaukkanenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 19:24 |
| 8Hans JonssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 20:12 |
| 25Jeff NortonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 19:23 |
| 14Milan KraftC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 14:23 |
| 15Roman SimicekC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 04:30 |
| 17Toby PetersenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 09:51 |
| 37Kip MillerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 02:50 |
| 95Aleksey MorozovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:05 |
| 11Darius KasparaitisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:16 |
| 24Ian MoranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:02 |
| 28Michal RozsivalD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 71Jiri SlegrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 16:57 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Rich ParentG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 34Garth SnowG | W | 24 | 3 | .875 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 3 | 17:38 |
| 29Vladimir TsyplakovL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10:49 |
| 25Vaclav VaradaR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15:19 |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 17:27 |
| 42Richard SmehlikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 14:30 |
| 74Jay McKeeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17:38 |
| 9Erik RasmussenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:54 |
| 17J-P DumontR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 17:24 |
| 32Rob RayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 06:11 |
| 41Stu BarnesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 18:36 |
| 52Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 07:27 |
| 55Denis HamelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:00 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 20:26 |
| 93Doug GilmourC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:49 |
| 4Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:30 |
| 5Jason WoolleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:14 |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25:35 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 21:31 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Dominik HasekG | 16 | 3 | .813 | |
| 43Martin BironG | L | 18 | 2 | .889 |