1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Carolina	0	1	1	2
New Jersey	1	1	3	5

First Period: Scoring: 1, New Jersey, Morrison 3 (power play) (Sykora, Elias), 6:28. Penalties: Halko, Car (interference), 6:23.
Second Period: Scoring: 2, Carolina, Ranheim 7 (Malik, Kron), 2:12. 3, New Jersey, Madden 8 (shorthanded) (unassisted), 9:14. Penalties: Manderville, Car (Obstr tripping), 3:23; Stevens, N.J. (Tripping), 8:19; Souray, N.J. (Roughing), 15:33.
Third Period: Scoring: 4, New Jersey, Oliwa 6 (power play) (Lemieux, Gomez), 4:55. 5, New Jersey, Elias 16 (Rafalski), 9:55. 6, Carolina, Gelinas 6 (power play) (Kron, Ranheim), 16:22. 7, New Jersey, Holik 16 (unassisted), 17:59. Penalties: Roberts, Car (roughing), 3:08; Lemieux, N.J. (Slashing), 6:32; Oliwa, N.J. (Tripping), 15:36.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Carolina		5	11	9	--25
New Jersey		12	6	14	--32

Power-play Conversions: Car - 1 of 4, Njd - 2 of 3. Goalies: Carolina, Fichaud (32 shots, 27 saves; record: 3-5-1). New Jersey, M Brodeur (25, 23; record: 27-9-5). A:11,042. Referees: Zelkin, Koharski. Linesmen: Gagnon, Nowak.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Carolina					New Jersey
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Battaglia Coffey Francis Gelinas Halko Kapanen Kovalenko Kron Leschyshyn Malik Manderville Oneill Pratt Ranheim Ritchie Roberts T Westlund Wesley	0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0	-1 -1 -1 +1 even -1 -1 even even even even -2 -1 even even -2 even -1	0 2 0 2 0 1 2 4 1 3 1 0 0 4 1 2 0 2	Arnott Bombardir Elias Gomez Holik K Daneyko Lemieux Madden Mckay Morrison Oliwa Pandolfo Pederson Rafalski Souray Stevens Sykora White	0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0	0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0	+1 +1 +1 +1 even +1 even +1 even even even -1 +1 even +1 +2 +1 -1	1 0 6 1 6 2 3 4 0 2 1 3 1 1 0 0 1 0