National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
NY Islanders 4, Buffalo 2
When: 7:00 PM ET, Saturday, January 17, 2004
Where: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
Referees: Brad Watson, Stephane Auger
Linesmen: Kevin Collins, Ray Scapinello
Attendance: 15126
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Buffalo 1012
NY Islanders 2204
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
3:45 - Islanders Cliff Ronning (PP) Assists: Adrian Aucoin , Mattias Weinhandl
5:27 - Islanders Kenny Jonsson (PP) Assists: Oleg Kvasha , Adrian Aucoin
12:29 - Sabres Chris Taylor (EV) Assists: Alexei Zhitnik
Penalties
2:20 - Sabres Jochen Hecht (2) High sticking
 3:00 - Sabres Alexei Zhitnik (2) High sticking
 3:00 - Sabres Alexei Zhitnik (2) High sticking
 6:44 - Sabres Eric Boulton (5) Fighting
 6:44 - Islanders Eric Godard (5) Fighting
 13:39 - Islanders Mattias Weinhandl (2) Hooking
 16:05 - Islanders Eric Cairns (2) Boarding
2nd Period
Scoring
3:28 - Islanders Dave Scatchard (EV) Assists: Arron Asham , Kenny Jonsson
9:09 - Islanders Janne Niinimaa (PP) Assists: Arron Asham , Roman Hamrlik
Penalties
5:06 - Islanders Radek Martinek (2) Cross checking
 5:56 - Sabres Curtis Brown (2) Holding the stick
 7:51 - Sabres Adam Mair (2) Elbowing
 9:31 - Islanders Michael Peca (2) Slashing
 14:18 - Sabres Alexei Zhitnik (2) Goaltender interference
 16:53 - Islanders Rick DiPietro (2) Delay of game
3rd Period
Scoring
15:01 - Sabres James Patrick (EV) Assists: Adam Mair
Penalties
None.
Buffalo Sabres
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Mika Noronen G 0 0 0 0 0 58:36 42:36 8:50 7:10 0 0 - - - - -
Martin Biron G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
James Patrick D 1 0 1 E 0 3 27 18:44 14:46 0:02 3:56 0 0 - - - - -
Rory Fitzpatrick D 0 0 0 +1 0 1 28 20:56 15:07 3:26 2:23 0 0 - - - - -
Derek Roy C 0 0 0 E 0 1 16 13:06 10:56 2:10 0:00 0 0 - - 4 8 33
Henrik Tallinder D 0 0 0 E 0 3 21 17:02 15:03 0:02 1:57 0 0 - - - - -
Ales Kotalik RW 0 0 0 E 0 0 18 15:20 15:18 0:02 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Chris Taylor C 1 0 1 +1 0 1 15 7:58 6:17 0:00 1:41 0 0 - - 7 7 50
J.P. Dumont RW 0 0 0 E 0 1 21 18:21 14:19 4:02 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Adam Mair C 0 1 1 +2 2 0 14 7:11 6:26 0:00 0:45 0 0 - - 1 - 100
Chris Drury C 0 0 0 E 0 2 23 18:55 12:04 4:19 2:32 0 0 - - 11 10 52
Eric Boulton LW 0 0 0 E 5 0 7 3:35 3:35 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Jason Botterill LW 0 0 0 +1 0 0 17 12:54 11:46 1:08 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Curtis Brown C 0 0 0 E 2 1 21 14:31 8:58 1:34 3:59 0 0 - - 7 5 58
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 1 +1 6 6 27 24:28 16:34 5:22 2:32 0 0 - - - - -
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 0 E 0 2 23 23:19 14:39 5:08 3:32 0 0 - - - - -
Daniel Briere C 0 0 0 E 0 1 21 18:56 14:54 4:02 0:00 0 0 - - 6 5 55
Brian Campbell D 0 0 0 E 0 1 21 15:53 12:13 3:40 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Jochen Hecht C 0 0 0 E 2 5 26 22:20 16:22 4:27 1:31 0 0 - - - - -
Miroslav Satan RW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 19 19:02 11:14 4:46 3:02 0 0 - - - - -
New York Islanders
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Garth Snow G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Rick DiPietro G 0 0 0 2 0 59:53 44:00 7:06 8:47 0 0 - - - - -
Adrian Aucoin D 0 2 2 E 0 1 25 26:44 16:03 5:27 5:14 0 0 - - - - -
Roman Hamrlik D 0 1 1 E 0 1 29 27:05 20:54 2:29 3:42 0 0 - - - - -
Trent Hunter RW 0 0 0 E 0 2 22 16:00 11:55 4:05 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Mattias Weinhandl RW 0 1 1 E 2 0 20 13:02 10:08 2:54 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Oleg Kvasha C 0 1 1 E 0 1 28 18:21 12:13 3:13 2:55 0 0 - - 4 6 40
Justin Mapletoft C 0 0 0 E 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Shawn Bates C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 26 15:43 12:56 0:00 2:47 0 0 - - 2 1 67
Mariusz Czerkawski RW 0 0 0 E 0 3 19 12:17 9:28 2:49 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Radek Martinek D 0 0 0 E 2 1 16 12:08 12:01 0:05 0:02 0 0 - - - - -
Justin Papineau C 0 0 0 -1 0 1 14 7:18 4:49 2:29 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Michael Peca C 0 0 0 E 2 2 28 20:27 13:35 1:57 4:55 0 0 - - 13 15 46
Kenny Jonsson D 1 1 2 E 0 1 24 19:21 12:22 3:56 3:03 1 0 - - - - -
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 -1 2 0 14 10:38 10:27 0:00 0:11 0 0 - - - - -
Dave Scatchard C 1 0 1 E 0 2 26 15:39 14:31 0:00 1:08 0 0 - - 12 8 60
Janne Niinimaa D 1 0 1 -1 0 1 24 23:10 16:08 1:43 5:19 1 0 - - - - -
Arron Asham RW 0 2 2 E 0 2 23 16:13 15:51 0:11 0:11 0 0 - - - - -
Eric Godard RW 0 0 0 E 5 0 1 0:02 0:02 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Jason Blake LW 0 0 0 -1 0 1 30 20:59 15:12 0:00 5:47 0 0 - - - 1 0
Cliff Ronning C 1 0 1 E 0 3 18 11:04 6:29 4:35 0:00 1 0 - - 4 5 44
Goaltending
Buffalo
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Mika Noronen L (11-16-1) 23 19 4 .826 0 58:36
NY Islanders
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Rick DiPietro W (23-16-2) 29 27 2 .931 2 59:53