Colorado Avalanche vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Monday, March 24, 2003 · HSBC Arena
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Colorado Avalanche 4–3 in overtime on Monday, March 24, 2003 at HSBC Arena. The Avalanche outshot the Sabres 36–35.
Peter Forsberg scored twice and Jochen Hecht scored twice. Maxim Afinogenov, Milan Hejduk and Daniel Brière also scored.
Martin Biron made 33 saves on 36 shots for the win; David Aebischer stopped 31 of 35.
Scoring
1st period
Maxim Afinogenov (4)Jason Botterill (4), Brian Campbell (16)0–117:18 BUF
Peter Forsberg (26)Derek Morris (33), Rob Blake (26)1–119:05 COL ·
2nd period
Jochen Hecht (8)James Patrick (11), J-P Dumont (17)1–200:39 BUF- Peter Forsberg (27)Bryan Marchment (12)2–215:03 COL
3rd period
Milan Hejduk (43)Alex Tanguay (39), Adam Foote (19)3–202:59 COL
Daniel Brière (20)James Patrick (12), Curtis Brown (16)3–312:41 BUF ·
Overtime
- Jochen Hecht (9)Miroslav Satan (42), Brian Campbell (17)3–404:15 BUF
Team stats
COLBUF
3635
60%40%
1/71/7
1414
2910
510
1115
46
Penalties
- 8:16 into the first period
Jason Botterill · interference goalkeeper2 min - 10:44 into the first period
Martin Skoula · boarding2 min - 13:35 into the first periodBrian Campbell · holding2 min
- 18:08 into the first periodEric Boulton · holding the stick2 min
- 2:07 into the second periodDoug Janik · hooking2 min
- 8:27 into the second periodRiku Hahl · holding2 min
- 9:34 into the second periodRob Blake · tripping2 min
- 12:38 into the second periodBryan Marchment · holding2 min
- 3:31 into the third periodDerek Morris · tripping obstruction2 min
- 5:53 into the third periodJ-P Dumont · high sticking2 min
- 5:53 into the third periodJ-P Dumont · high sticking2 min
- 11:29 into the third periodAdam Foote · roughing2 min
- 14:58 into the third periodDerek Morris · slashing2 min
- 17:02 into the third periodCurtis Brown · holding obstruction2 min
Colorado Avalanche
| 21Peter ForsbergC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 21:56 |
| 23Milan HejdukR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 22:36 |
| 40Alex TanguayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 21:44 |
| 4Rob BlakeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 26:22 |
| 20Bryan MarchmentD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 13:42 |
| 52Adam FooteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 28:16 |
| 53Derek MorrisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 23:26 |
| 10Serge AubinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:20 |
| 11Jeff ShantzC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:39 |
| 12Mike KeaneR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:28 |
| 13Dan HinoteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:12 |
| 19Joe SakicC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 21:10 |
| 27Scott ParkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 03:21 |
| 28Steve ReinprechtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | 20:02 |
| 32Riku HahlC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 07:49 |
| 44Bates BattagliaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 16:02 |
| 7Greg De VriesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:58 |
| 41Martin SkoulaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:39 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1David AebischerG | L | 35 | 4 | .886 |
| 33Patrick RoyG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 71Jochen HechtC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 7 | 19:11 |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24:35 |
| 51Brian CampbellD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 23:12 |
| 17J-P DumontR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 15:26 |
| 28Jason BotterillL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 06:25 |
| 37Curtis BrownC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 19:03 |
| 48Daniel BrièreC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | 20:23 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 11:41 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 27:54 |
| 12Ales KotalikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 20:10 |
| 16Chris TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:24 |
| 18Tim ConnollyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 17:46 |
| 26Eric BoultonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 06:13 |
| 60Paul GaustadC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:48 |
| 4Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 21:14 |
| 8Rory FitzpatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:38 |
| 33Doug JanikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:42 |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 32:01 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Mika NoronenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 43Martin BironG | W | 36 | 3 | .917 |