Buffalo Sabres vs Philadelphia Flyers
Regular season · Saturday, March 30, 2002 · First Union Center
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Philadelphia Flyers 3–1 on Saturday, March 30, 2002 at First Union Center. The Flyers outshot the Sabres 29–22.
Goals came from Ruslan Fedotenko, Miroslav Satan, Richard Smehlik and Chris Gratton.
Martin Biron made 28 saves on 29 shots for the win; Brian Boucher stopped 19 of 22.
Scoring
2nd period
Ruslan Fedotenko (16)Simon Gagne (31), John LeClair (23)0–102:00 PHI
Miroslav Satan (30)Chris Gratton (21), J-P Dumont (19)1–108:56 BUF
Richard Smehlik (2)Tim Connolly (32), J-P Dumont (20)2–116:29 BUF
3rd period
Chris Gratton (12)J-P Dumont (21), Miroslav Satan (31)3–100:12 BUF
Team stats
BUFPHI
2229
44%56%
0/30/3
1212
2420
198
1114
67
Penalties
- 8:55 into the first period
Richard Smehlik · roughing2 min - 8:55 into the first period
Dan Mcgillis · roughing2 min - 15:26 into the first periodCurtis Brown · roughing2 min
- 15:26 into the first periodDan Mcgillis · interference2 min
- 15:29 into the first periodBob Corkum · cross checking2 min
- 15:29 into the first periodRuslan Fedotenko · cross checking2 min
- 19:09 into the first periodMaxim Afinogenov · slashing2 min
- 4:09 into the second periodKim Johnsson · holding the stick2 min
- 9:33 into the second periodJustin Williams · holding2 min
- 14:06 into the second periodEric Desjardins · holding2 min
- 2:57 into the third periodAlexei Zhitnik · interference2 min
- 13:14 into the third periodChris Gratton · holding2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 17J-P DumontR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 1 | 15:38 |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 14:43 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 19:31 |
| 18Tim ConnollyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13:10 |
| 42Richard SmehlikD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 20:26 |
| 9Erik RasmussenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:11 |
| 24Taylor PyattL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:58 |
| 25Vaclav VaradaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:36 |
| 26Eric BoultonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:46 |
| 29Bob CorkumC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:03 |
| 37Curtis BrownC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:41 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:49 |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:14 |
| 5Jason WoolleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:26 |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 27:54 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 14:45 |
| 51Brian CampbellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 09:10 |
| 74Jay McKeeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:16 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Mika NoronenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 43Martin BironG | W | 29 | 1 | .966 |
Philadelphia Flyers
| 10John LeClairL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 18:38 |
| 12Simon GagneL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 19:53 |
| 26Ruslan FedotenkoL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14:08 |
| 8Mark RecchiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 23:32 |
| 14Justin WilliamsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:07 |
| 19Paul RanheimL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 05:59 |
| 23Guillaume LefebvreL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 10:03 |
| 24Chris McAllisterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:44 |
| 25Keith PrimeauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 18:52 |
| 29Todd FedorukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:41 |
| 77Adam OatesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 24:19 |
| 87Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:18 |
| 2Eric WeinrichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 19:30 |
| 3Dan McgillisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 20:47 |
| 5Kim JohnssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 22:46 |
| 6Chris TherienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:14 |
| 22Luke RichardsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:08 |
| 37Eric DesjardinsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20:49 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Roman CechmanekG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Brian BoucherG | L | 22 | 3 | .864 |