Buffalo Sabres vs Ottawa Senators
Regular season · Sunday, March 24, 2002 · Corel Centre
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Ottawa Senators 3–2 in overtime on Sunday, March 24, 2002 at Corel Centre. The Senators outshot the Sabres 27–26.
Goals came from J-P Dumont, Juha Ylonen, Wade Redden, Brian Campbell and Erik Rasmussen.
Mika Noronen made 25 saves on 27 shots for the win; Patrick Lalime stopped 23 of 26.
Scoring
1st period
J-P Dumont (22)Jason Woolley (15), Maxim Afinogenov (15)1–008:32 BUF ·
2nd period
Juha Ylonen (4)Magnus Arvedson (25)1–102:07 OTT ·
3rd period
Wade Redden (9)Radek Bonk (38), Martin Havlat (26)1–214:05 OTT · 
Brian Campbell (3)Vaclav Varada (15), Rhett Warrener (3)2–216:55 BUF
Overtime
Erik Rasmussen (7)Maxim Afinogenov (16), Brian Campbell (3)3–201:27 BUF
Team stats
BUFOTT
2627
39%61%
1/51/3
1317
3643
188
1618
514
Penalties
- 4:23 into the first period
Chris Gratton · high sticking2 min - 6:41 into the first period
Shawn McEachern · hooking2 min - 13:33 into the first periodErik Rasmussen · roughing2 min
- 13:33 into the first periodWade Redden · roughing2 min
- 13:33 into the first periodChris Neil · roughing2 min
- 19:01 into the first periodRhett Warrener · fighting5 min
- 19:01 into the first periodChris Neil · fighting5 min
- 0:25 into the second periodWade Redden · high sticking2 min
- 6:00 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 9:46 into the second periodJay McKee · tripping2 min
- 13:50 into the third periodRhett Warrener · tripping2 min
- 18:34 into the third periodJoel Kwiatkowski · hooking2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 5 | 15:04 |
| 51Brian CampbellD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 13:21 |
| 9Erik RasmussenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:10 |
| 17J-P DumontR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 17:44 |
| 25Vaclav VaradaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:03 |
| 4Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 17:42 |
| 5Jason WoolleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 15:18 |
| 12Ales KotalikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:01 |
| 18Tim ConnollyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 15:53 |
| 24Taylor PyattL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:22 |
| 29Bob CorkumC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:54 |
| 37Curtis BrownC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:29 |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:21 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:25 |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:10 |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 29:32 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:23 |
| 74Jay McKeeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:40 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Mika NoronenG | W | 27 | 2 | .926 |
| 43Martin BironG | 0 | 0 | – |
Ottawa Senators
| 9Martin HavlatR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 15:25 |
| 14Radek BonkC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15:15 |
| 20Magnus ArvedsonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 16:54 |
| 36Juha YlonenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 16:52 |
| 6Wade ReddenD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 23:27 |
| 11Daniel AlfredssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 18:21 |
| 15Shawn McEachernL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:35 |
| 17Bill MuckaltR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 07:58 |
| 18Marian HossaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:28 |
| 25Chris NeilR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 09:12 |
| 26Benoit BrunetL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:23 |
| 28Todd WhiteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17:16 |
| 33Chris HerpergerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:34 |
| 4Chris PhillipsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:04 |
| 7Curtis LeschyshynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:41 |
| 27Ricard PerssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:49 |
| 29Joel KwiatkowskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:21 |
| 34Shane HnidyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23:10 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Martin PrusekG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Patrick LalimeG | L | 26 | 3 | .885 |