Buffalo Sabres vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Saturday, March 17, 2001 · MCI Center
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Washington Capitals 3–2 on Saturday, March 17, 2001 at MCI Center. The Capitals outshot the Sabres 44–23.
Peter Bondra scored twice. Stu Barnes, Curtis Brown and Chris Gratton also scored.
Martin Biron made 42 saves on 44 shots for the win; Olie Kolzig stopped 20 of 23.
Scoring
2nd period
Stu Barnes (18)Unassisted1–000:23 BUF
Peter Bondra (42)Adam Oates (63), Steve Konowalchuk (18)1–113:20 WSH · 
Curtis Brown (9)Dmitri Kalinin (13), Steve Heinze (22)2–115:24 BUF- Peter Bondra (43)Unassisted2–216:06 WSH
3rd period
Chris Gratton (17)Alexei Zhitnik (24), Dmitri Kalinin (14)3–209:26 BUF ·
Team stats
BUFWSH
2344
45%55%
1/61/8
2814
1919
88
1212
1110
Penalties
- 2:19 into the first period
Jason Woolley · holding2 min - 9:09 into the first period
Jason Marshall · interference2 min - 12:22 into the first periodDmitri Kalinin · holding2 min
- 14:18 into the first periodCalle Johansson · slashing2 min
- 16:34 into the first periodSteve Heinze · holding2 min
- 1:19 into the second periodAdam Oates · slashing2 min
- 2:28 into the second periodPeter Bondra · high sticking2 min
- 5:58 into the second periodAlexei Zhitnik · holding2 min
- 11:54 into the second periodCurtis Brown · tripping2 min
- 16:39 into the second periodJeff Halpern · holding2 min
- 5:25 into the third periodDoug Gilmour · high sticking2 min
- 5:25 into the third periodChris Gratton · roughing2 min
- 5:25 into the third periodSteve Konowalchuk · roughing2 min
- 8:05 into the third periodRob Ray · misconduct10 min
- 8:05 into the third periodBrendan Witt · roughing2 min
- 12:12 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 19:41 into the third periodJ-P Dumont · cross checking2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20:55 |
| 37Curtis BrownC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:03 |
| 41Stu BarnesC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 21:33 |
| 57Steve HeinzeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 14:03 |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 12:16 |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 23:55 |
| 9Erik RasmussenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:00 |
| 17J-P DumontR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 17:32 |
| 25Vaclav VaradaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:50 |
| 28Donald AudetteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 19:01 |
| 32Rob RayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:14 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 04:24 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 19:04 |
| 93Doug GilmourC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:08 |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 19:04 |
| 4Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:49 |
| 5Jason WoolleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:35 |
| 51Brian CampbellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:55 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Dominik HasekG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 43Martin BironG | W | 44 | 2 | .955 |
Washington Capitals
| 12Peter BondraR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 14 | 24:34 |
| 22Steve KonowalchukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 14:50 |
| 77Adam OatesC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | 23:52 |
| 8Dmitri KhristichR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 18:44 |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:11 |
| 10Ulf DahlenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:23 |
| 11Jeff HalpernC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 16:06 |
| 13Andrei NikolishinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 16:24 |
| 14Joe SaccoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:09 |
| 16Trevor LindenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 20:06 |
| 17Chris SimonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:19 |
| 23Trent WhitfieldC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 06:07 |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:03 |
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 22:25 |
| 19Brendan WittD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 17:53 |
| 28Jason MarshallD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:43 |
| 29Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 15:23 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | 23:29 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | L | 23 | 3 | .870 |