The Buffalo Sabres managed to stay ahead of the Vancouver Canucks, 3 to 2, on January 8, 2002.

Final

Canucks

18-23-4-0

2

Sabres

17-21-4-1

3

Team

VAN

BUF

1

0

1

2

1

2

3

1

0

Total

2

3

Summary

Team Stats

Player Stats

1st period

VAN

BUF

Vaclav Varada (EV) assisted by Chris Gratton

0

1

2nd period

VAN

BUF

Vaclav Varada (EV) assisted by Alexei Zhitnik and Richard Smehlik

0

2

Brendan Morrison (EV) assisted by Matt Cooke and Bryan Helmer

1

2

Tim Connolly (EV) assisted by Jay McKee

1

3

3rd period

VAN

BUF

Todd Bertuzzi (PP) assisted by Brent Sopel and Markus Naslund

2

3

Canucks

Sabres

Goals

2

3

Shots

28

26

Penalty Minutes

4

6

Power-Play Goals

1

0

Power-Play Opportunities

3

2

Faceoff Wins

39

33

Hits

27

29

Giveaways

15

13

Takeaways

3

6

Canucks

Sabres

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Peter Skudra (L)	1	26	3	23	.885	58:48

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Murray Baron	0	0	0	2	0	16:17	1	5	1	0
Todd Bertuzzi	1	0	-1	0	7	20:48	3	0	1	0
Andrew Cassels	0	0	-2	0	3	16:21	2	0	0	0
Artem Chubarov	0	0	0	0	1	9:15	0	0	0	0
Matt Cooke	0	1	0	2	1	14:51	2	1	1	0
Bryan Helmer	0	1	+1	0	1	12:47	1	1	1	0
Jan Hlavac	0	0	0	0	1	16:11	0	0	0	2
Ed Jovanovski	0	0	-1	0	1	24:36	3	2	2	0
Scott Lachance	0	0	-1	0	0	18:35	1	1	1	0
Trevor Letowski	0	0	0	0	1	12:26	1	0	1	0
Trevor Linden	0	0	0	0	2	18:19	2	0	2	0
Brendan Morrison	1	0	0	0	3	13:53	2	0	0	0
Markus Naslund	0	1	-2	0	2	18:33	0	0	1	0
Mattias Ohlund	0	0	-2	0	0	24:16	5	2	0	1
Jarkko Ruutu	0	0	-1	0	2	9:26	3	0	1	0
Daniel Sedin	0	0	0	0	0	11:13	0	0	2	0
Henrik Sedin	0	0	0	0	1	15:55	0	0	0	0
Brent Sopel	0	1	-1	0	2	23:22	1	1	0	0

Goalies

NAME	GS	SA	GA	Sv	Sv%	TOI
Martin Biron (W)	1	28	2	26	.929	60:00

Skaters

NAME	G	A	+/-	PIM	S	TOI	Hits	BkS	GvA	TkA
Maxim Afinogenov	0	0	+1	2	2	14:25	3	0	0	0
Stu Barnes	0	0	-1	2	0	15:55	0	0	1	2
Curtis Brown	0	0	+2	0	3	19:42	4	2	0	0
Tim Connolly	1	0	+1	0	2	17:18	0	0	1	1
J-P Dumont	0	0	-1	2	1	15:38	1	1	0	0
Chris Gratton	0	1	+2	0	5	17:31	2	0	2	1
Denis Hamel	0	0	0	0	1	8:58	2	1	0	1
Dmitri Kalinin	0	0	+1	0	0	22:32	1	2	1	0
Jay McKee	0	1	0	0	0	20:34	1	5	0	0
Taylor Pyatt	0	0	0	0	0	8:24	4	0	0	0
Erik Rasmussen	0	0	+1	0	1	13:35	3	0	0	0
Rob Ray	0	0	0	0	0	5:27	1	0	0	0
Miroslav Satan	0	0	-1	0	3	18:31	1	1	1	1
Richard Smehlik	0	1	0	0	1	25:00	1	1	2	0
Vaclav Varada	2	0	+2	0	4	19:28	2	1	1	0
Rhett Warrener	0	0	0	0	0	2:48	1	0	0	0
Jason Woolley	0	0	0	0	2	18:08	0	1	0	0
Alexei Zhitnik	0	1	+3	0	1	30:58	2	7	1	0