Pittsburgh Penguins vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, March 26, 2004 · HSBC Arena
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5–1 on Friday, March 26, 2004 at HSBC Arena. The Sabres outshot the Penguins 31–25.
Goals came from Daniel Brière, Milan Kraft, Jay McKee, Chris Drury, Maxim Afinogenov and Andrew Peters.
Martin Biron made 24 saves on 25 shots for the win; Sebastien Caron stopped 26 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Daniel Brière (26)Dmitri Kalinin (23), Jochen Hecht (31)0–116:45 BUF ·
2nd period
Milan Kraft (18)Aleksey Morozov (30), Dick Tarnstrom (36)1–106:54 PIT · 
Jay McKee (2)Milan Bartovic (6), Adam Mair (14)1–215:21 BUF
Chris Drury (17)Jochen Hecht (32), Mike Grier (16)1–316:21 BUF
3rd period
Maxim Afinogenov (16)Chris Drury (30), Jochen Hecht (33)1–412:58 BUF
Andrew Peters (2)James Patrick (7)1–516:30 BUF ·
Team stats
PITBUF
2531
51%49%
1/51/6
1715
1013
914
815
13
Penalties
- 1:53 into the first period
Josef Melichar · hooking2 min - 4:20 into the first period
Adam Mair · high sticking2 min - 7:19 into the first periodBrooks Orpik · interference2 min
- 14:55 into the first periodRyan Malone · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 17:58 into the first periodAdam Mair · fighting5 min
- 17:58 into the first periodMatt Bradley · fighting5 min
- 5:54 into the second periodJ-P Dumont · holding the stick2 min
- 10:28 into the second periodDmitri Kalinin · tripping2 min
- 12:20 into the second periodMilan Kraft · interference2 min
- 17:23 into the second periodJon Sim · roughing2 min
- 1:32 into the third periodDan Focht · high sticking2 min
- 4:19 into the third periodDerek Roy · tripping2 min
- 14:23 into the third periodAndrew Peters · tripping2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 14Milan KraftC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 18:06 |
| 95Aleksey MorozovR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 17:03 |
| 32Dick TarnstromD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 21:43 |
| 7Kelly BuchbergerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 09:49 |
| 8Matt BradleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 09:21 |
| 9Rico FataL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 14:59 |
| 11Lasse PirjetaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:12 |
| 12Ryan MaloneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:15 |
| 20Mike EastwoodC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:03 |
| 26Landon WilsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 08:49 |
| 36Tom KostopoulosR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:59 |
| 39Jon SimL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:14 |
| 71Konstantin KoltsovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:28 |
| 2Josef MelicharD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:03 |
| 4Dan FochtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 18:42 |
| 6Martin StrbakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:23 |
| 44Brooks OrpikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 21:08 |
| 55Ric JackmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 23:10 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Jean-Sebastien AubinG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Sebastien CaronG | L | 30 | 4 | .867 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 55Jochen HechtC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 1 | 19:38 |
| 23Chris DruryC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 18:21 |
| 15Milan BartovicR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 14:05 |
| 22Adam MairC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 08:25 |
| 25Mike GrierR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 14:49 |
| 48Daniel BrièreC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 18:32 |
| 61Maxim AfinogenovR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 15:20 |
| 76Andrew PetersL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 05:57 |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 0 | 16:09 |
| 45Dmitri KalininD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 2 | 23:39 |
| 74Jay McKeeD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 17:36 |
| 9Derek RoyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15:34 |
| 16Chris TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 09:10 |
| 17J-P DumontR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:44 |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 21:37 |
| 4Brad BrownD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:01 |
| 10Henrik TallinderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:08 |
| 34Jeff JillsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:18 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Mika NoronenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 43Martin BironG | W | 25 | 1 | .960 |