Buffalo Sabres vs Colorado Avalanche
Regular season · Monday, January 21, 2002 · Pepsi Center
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Buffalo Sabres 3–2 on Monday, January 21, 2002 at Pepsi Center. The Avalanche outshot the Sabres 41–28.
Goals came from Adam Foote, Curtis Brown, Chris Drury, Milan Hejduk and Tim Connolly.
Patrick Roy made 26 saves on 28 shots for the win; Martin Biron stopped 38 of 41.
Scoring
1st period
Adam Foote (2)Chris Drury (12)0–100:28 COL
Curtis Brown (11)Taylor Pyatt (5), Alexei Zhitnik (25)1–107:20 BUF
2nd period
Chris Drury (13)Ville Nieminen (7), Stephane Yelle (7)1–212:09 COL
3rd period
Milan Hejduk (17)Joe Sakic (29), Alex Tanguay (21)1–305:01 COL
Tim Connolly (9)Stu Barnes (20), J-P Dumont (14)2–308:22 BUF ·
Team stats
BUFCOL
2841
44%56%
1/40/3
1315
3635
1313
613
1124
Penalties
- 7:26 into the first period
Eric Boulton · fighting5 min - 7:26 into the first period
Scott Parker · fighting5 min - 18:29 into the first periodJ-P Dumont · slashing2 min
- 0:46 into the second periodMilan Hejduk · kneeing2 min
- 8:25 into the second periodVille Nieminen · interference2 min
- 2:44 into the third periodTaylor Pyatt · hooking2 min
- 7:00 into the third periodDenis Hamel · roughing2 min
- 7:00 into the third periodScott Parker · roughing2 min
- 7:00 into the third periodScott Parker · roughing2 min
- 16:29 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 17:26 into the third periodChris Drury · interference goalkeeper2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 17J-P DumontR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 16:55 |
| 18Tim ConnollyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 18:12 |
| 24Taylor PyattL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 4 | 16:07 |
| 37Curtis BrownC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 16:14 |
| 41Stu BarnesC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 19:18 |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 23:16 |
| 9Erik RasmussenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:34 |
| 26Eric BoultonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:00 |
| 32Rob RayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:45 |
| 55Denis HamelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:12 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:38 |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:29 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 20:07 |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:38 |
| 4Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:50 |
| 42Richard SmehlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:18 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:23 |
| 74Jay McKeeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:07 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Bob EssensaG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 43Martin BironG | L | 41 | 3 | .927 |
Colorado Avalanche
| 18Chris DruryC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | 16:03 |
| 10Ville NieminenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13:34 |
| 19Joe SakicC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 21:30 |
| 23Milan HejdukR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19:33 |
| 26Stephane YelleC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16:10 |
| 40Alex TanguayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 16:28 |
| 52Adam FooteD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 6 | 25:55 |
| 12Radim VrbataR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | 12:04 |
| 20Kelly FairchildC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 08:20 |
| 25Shjon PodeinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:33 |
| 27Scott ParkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:35 |
| 32Riku HahlC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:20 |
| 50Brian WillsieR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 14:04 |
| 4Rob BlakeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 25:47 |
| 5Todd GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:03 |
| 7Greg De VriesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | 22:34 |
| 11Pascal TrepanierD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:44 |
| 41Martin SkoulaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:11 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1David AebischerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 28 | 2 | .929 |