Vancouver Canucks vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, March 16, 2001 · HSBC Arena
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Vancouver Canucks 4–2 on Friday, March 16, 2001 at HSBC Arena. The Sabres outshot the Canucks 31–21.
Steve Heinze scored a hat trick. Matt Cooke, Doug Gilmour and Henrik Sedin also scored.
Dominik Hasek made 19 saves on 21 shots for the win; Bob Essensa stopped 27 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Steve Heinze (24)Doug Gilmour (27), Chris Gratton (18)0–116:17 BUF · 
Matt Cooke (13)Markus Naslund (33), Drake Berehowsky (19)1–119:34 VAN
2nd period
Doug Gilmour (6)Erik Rasmussen (15), J-P Dumont (26)1–219:56 BUF
3rd period
Henrik Sedin (8)Markus Naslund (34), Matt Cooke (12)2–205:46 VAN- Steve Heinze (25)Alexei Zhitnik (23)2–310:44 BUF
- Steve Heinze (26)Vaclav Varada (18)2–419:23 BUF ·
Team stats
VANBUF
2131
46%54%
0/41/5
1210
1927
1712
1612
35
Penalties
- 2:32 into the first period
Murray Baron · holding2 min - 7:37 into the first period
Maxim Afinogenov · elbowing2 min - 16:00 into the first periodMurray Baron · roughing2 min
- 1:49 into the second periodMarkus Naslund · elbowing2 min
- 4:10 into the second periodVaclav Varada · holding the stick2 min
- 5:12 into the second periodDaniel Sedin · hooking2 min
- 7:42 into the second periodRhett Warrener · interference2 min
- 7:42 into the second periodMike Stapleton · slashing2 min
- 13:22 into the second periodDrake Berehowsky · holding2 min
- 17:50 into the second periodJ-P Dumont · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 1:36 into the third periodCurtis Brown · slashing2 min
Season series
Vancouver Canucks
| 19Markus NaslundL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 15:02 |
| 24Matt CookeL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 12:42 |
| 33Henrik SedinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 12:41 |
| 17Drake BerehowskyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 18:31 |
| 7Brendan MorrisonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 20:36 |
| 8Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:19 |
| 9Mike StapletonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:35 |
| 20Denis PedersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:06 |
| 22Daniel SedinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 12:23 |
| 25Andrew CasselsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 18:00 |
| 26Trent KlattR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:44 |
| 44Todd BertuzziR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | 17:41 |
| 72Peter SchaeferL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:40 |
| 2Mattias OhlundD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 22:04 |
| 3Brent SopelD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:25 |
| 14Scott LachanceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:44 |
| 23Murray BaronD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:31 |
| 55Ed JovanovskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 25:41 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Bob EssensaG | L | 30 | 3 | .900 |
| 39Dan CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 57Steve HeinzeR | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14:56 |
| 93Doug GilmourC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 18:17 |
| 9Erik RasmussenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 12:55 |
| 17J-P DumontR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 15:13 |
| 25Vaclav VaradaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13:11 |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:28 |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 24:50 |
| 32Rob RayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:25 |
| 37Curtis BrownC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:56 |
| 41Stu BarnesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:05 |
| 52Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:40 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:08 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 19:38 |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | 20:11 |
| 4Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:11 |
| 5Jason WoolleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:57 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 18:32 |
| 74Jay McKeeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:27 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Dominik HasekG | W | 21 | 2 | .905 |
| 43Martin BironG | 0 | 0 | – |