Ottawa Senators vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Saturday, October 6, 2001 · HSBC Arena
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Ottawa Senators 3–2 on Saturday, October 6, 2001 at HSBC Arena. The Senators outshot the Sabres 32–30.
Goals came from Maxim Afinogenov, Todd White, Marian Hossa, Tim Connolly and Stu Barnes.
Martin Biron made 30 saves on 32 shots for the win; Patrick Lalime stopped 27 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Maxim Afinogenov (1)Alexei Zhitnik (1)0–110:56 BUF
2nd period
Todd White (2)Martin Havlat (3), Daniel Alfredsson (4)1–108:33 OTT · 
Marian Hossa (2)Curtis Leschyshyn (1), Ricard Persson (1)2–117:14 OTT ·
3rd period
Tim Connolly (1)Miroslav Satan (1)2–200:27 BUF
Stu Barnes (1)Curtis Brown (1), Vaclav Varada (1)2–319:02 BUF
Team stats
OTTBUF
3230
52%48%
2/60/8
2321
1935
143
1519
53
Penalties
- 3:44 into the first period
Shawn McEachern · holding the stick2 min - 8:23 into the first period
Jay McKee · roughing2 min - 11:26 into the first periodChris Neil · cross checking2 min
- 15:01 into the first periodChris Gratton · cross checking2 min
- 5:22 into the second periodJamie Rivers · holding2 min
- 6:00 into the second periodChris Gratton · high sticking2 min
- 7:29 into the second periodCurtis Brown · hooking2 min
- 9:35 into the second periodAndre Roy · diving2 min
- 9:35 into the second periodAndre Roy · kneeing2 min
- 13:13 into the second periodChris Gratton · cross checking2 min
- 13:13 into the second periodChris Gratton · fighting5 min
- 13:13 into the second periodShane Hnidy · roughing2 min
- 13:13 into the second periodShane Hnidy · fighting5 min
- 15:18 into the second periodAlexei Zhitnik · slashing2 min
- 18:00 into the second periodMike Fisher · roughing2 min
- 18:29 into the second periodCurtis Brown · interference2 min
- 19:43 into the second periodZdeno Chara · holding2 min
- 3:06 into the third periodVaclav Varada · hooking2 min
- 5:26 into the third periodWade Redden · slashing2 min
Season series
Ottawa Senators
| 9Martin HavlatR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 16:42 |
| 11Daniel AlfredssonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 19:17 |
| 18Marian HossaR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 19:16 |
| 28Todd WhiteC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 20:18 |
| 7Curtis LeschyshynD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23:00 |
| 27Ricard PerssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 11:54 |
| 12Mike FisherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:25 |
| 14Radek BonkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 17:37 |
| 15Shawn McEachernL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:00 |
| 16Steve MartinsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:31 |
| 17Bill MuckaltR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:29 |
| 24Ivan CiernikL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:06 |
| 25Chris NeilR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:15 |
| 26Andre RoyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 07:50 |
| 3Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 23:58 |
| 6Wade ReddenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 28:10 |
| 22Jamie RiversD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 11:01 |
| 34Shane HnidyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:03 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Jani HurmeG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Patrick LalimeG | L | 30 | 3 | .900 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 18Tim ConnollyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 16:51 |
| 25Vaclav VaradaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:42 |
| 37Curtis BrownC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:07 |
| 41Stu BarnesC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 14:22 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 09:43 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 24:49 |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 2 | 24:31 |
| 9Erik RasmussenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:03 |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:56 |
| 17J-P DumontR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:11 |
| 32Rob RayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:46 |
| 55Denis HamelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:26 |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 14:31 |
| 4Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:20 |
| 5Jason WoolleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:06 |
| 42Richard SmehlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | 22:31 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:28 |
| 74Jay McKeeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:40 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Bob EssensaG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 43Martin BironG | W | 32 | 2 | .938 |