Buffalo Sabres vs Florida Panthers
Regular season · Wednesday, January 31, 2001 · National Car Rental Center
Game summary
The Florida Panthers beat the Buffalo Sabres 5–2 on Wednesday, January 31, 2001 at National Car Rental Center. The Sabres outshot the Panthers 40–25.
Pavel Bure scored twice. Chris Gratton, Marcus Nilson, Erik Rasmussen, Peter Worrell and Olli Jokinen also scored.
Roberto Luongo made 38 saves on 40 shots for the win; Dominik Hasek stopped 20 of 25.
Scoring
1st period
Chris Gratton (14)Vladimir Tsyplakov (4), Maxim Afinogenov (15)1–003:33 BUF
2nd period
Marcus Nilson (7)Pavel Bure (20), Viktor Kozlov (13)1–109:06 FLA
Erik Rasmussen (9)Miroslav Satan (21), Doug Gilmour (16)2–115:01 BUF
3rd period
Peter Worrell (3)Viktor Kozlov (14), Pavel Bure (21)2–206:16 FLA
Pavel Bure (30)Anders Eriksson (20)2–307:28 FLA
Olli Jokinen (5)Unassisted2–408:03 FLA- Pavel Bure (31)Robert Svehla (11), Viktor Kozlov (15)2–516:26 FLA
Team stats
BUFFLA
4025
54%46%
0/40/3
2931
2034
712
711
58
Penalties
- 4:50 into the first period
Lance Ward · holding2 min - 5:22 into the first period
Jason Woolley · holding2 min - 6:53 into the first periodAnders Eriksson · holding2 min
- 15:32 into the first periodMike Sillinger · tripping2 min
- 3:11 into the second periodMaxim Afinogenov · hooking obstruction2 min
- 11:08 into the second periodDominik Hasek · goalie leave crease2 min
- 11:08 into the second periodRob Ray · roughing2 min
- 11:08 into the second periodRob Ray · misconduct10 min
- 11:08 into the second periodEric Boulton · fighting5 min
- 11:08 into the second periodJay McKee · roughing2 min
- 11:08 into the second periodScott Mellanby · fighting5 min
- 11:08 into the second periodRay Whitney · game misconduct10 min
- 11:08 into the second periodLance Ward · roughing2 min
- 11:08 into the second periodRoberto Luongo · goalie leave crease2 min
- 17:00 into the second periodPeter Worrell · boarding2 min
- 15:39 into the third periodJ-P Dumont · roughing2 min
- 15:39 into the third periodScott Mellanby · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodJay McKee · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodOlli Jokinen · roughing2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 9Erik RasmussenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:04 |
| 29Vladimir TsyplakovL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 12:36 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 15:31 |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 15:31 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 19:21 |
| 93Doug GilmourC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20:55 |
| 17J-P DumontR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 18:16 |
| 25Vaclav VaradaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 17:47 |
| 26Eric BoultonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 05:39 |
| 32Rob RayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:30 |
| 41Stu BarnesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:35 |
| 52Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 07:32 |
| 4Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:00 |
| 5Jason WoolleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 6 | 19:59 |
| 42Richard SmehlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 25:12 |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 6 | 25:25 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:10 |
| 74Jay McKeeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:04 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Dominik HasekG | L | 25 | 5 | .800 |
| 43Martin BironG | 0 | 0 | – |
Florida Panthers
| 10Pavel BureR | 2 | 2 | 4 | +3 | 3 | 26:13 |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 1 | 18:16 |
| 8Peter WorrellL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 5 | 10:04 |
| 12Olli JokinenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 10:37 |
| 18Marcus NilsonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:07 |
| 24Robert SvehlaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 27:23 |
| 29Anders ErikssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 21:17 |
| 9Len BarrieC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:40 |
| 13Vinny ProspalL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:59 |
| 14Ray WhitneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:05 |
| 16Mike SillingerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:40 |
| 27Scott MellanbyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 15:45 |
| 44Rob NiedermayerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 21:35 |
| 49Lance WardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 21:34 |
| 2Lance PitlickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 03:02 |
| 4Bret HedicanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 19:41 |
| 15John JakopinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:21 |
| 26Dan BoyleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 10:45 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Roberto LuongoG | W | 40 | 2 | .950 |
| 37Trevor KiddG | 0 | 0 | – |