Buffalo Sabres at Tampa Bay Lightning
11/12/99
| Box Score | 1 | 2 | 3 | -- | T |
| Buffalo | 1 | 1 | 0 | -- | 2 |
| Tampa Bay | 1 | 2 | 1 | -- | 4 |
FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, Buffalo, Afinogenov 2 (R Warrener, Grosek), 0:45. 2, Tampa Bay, S Martins 3 (shorthanded) (Svoboda, Sillinger), 10:39. Penalties: Peca, Buf (high sticking), 3:44; Kubina, T.B. (elbowing), 8:58; Zhitnik, Buf (high sticking), 14:31; Afinogenov, Buf (high sticking), 18:26.
SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 3, Buffalo, S Barnes 5 (Varada, Peca), 2:29. 4, Tampa Bay, Sillinger 5 (power play) (Richer, Tucker), 5:42. 5, Tampa Bay, Kubina 1 (Clymer, Sillinger), 18:27. Penalties: Sanderson, Buf (goalie interference), 3:59; Zhitnik, Buf (tripping), 11:19; Kubina, T.B. (hooking), 16:20.
THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 6, Tampa Bay, Tucker 3 (Sillinger, Zyuzin), 5:46. Penalties: Sillinger, T.B. (holding), 7:14.
| Shots on Goal | 1 | 2 | 3 | -- | T |
| Buffaol | 9 | 6 | 15 | -- | 30 |
| Tampa Bay | 11 | 10 | 7 | -- | 28 |
Power-play Conversions: Buf - 0 of 3, Tam - 1 of 5.
Goalies: Buffalo, Biron (28 shots, 24 saves; record: 6-2-0). Tampa Bay, D Cloutier (30, 28; record: 4-5-0).
A:14,035.
Referees: Heyer, Trottier. Linesmen: S Provost, Racicot.
Individual Player Statistics
| Buffalo | G | A | +/- | Shts | Lightning | G | A | +/- | Shts | |
| Afinogenov | 1 | 0 | -1 | 3 | Clymer | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | |
| B Holzinger | 0 | 0 | -1 | 4 | Drulia | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | |
| Brown | 0 | 0 | -1 | 3 | Gratton | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | |
| Grosek | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 | Guolla | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mckee | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | Gusev | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Patrick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Herbers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Peca | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | Johansson | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 | |
| Primeau | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kesa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| R Warrener | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Kubina | 1 | 0 | +1 | 2 | |
| Rasmussen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Lecavalier | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 | |
| Ray | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Modin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| S Barnes | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | Petrovicky | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Sanderson | 0 | 0 | -1 | 4 | Richer | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Sarich | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | S Martins | 1 | 0 | +3 | 2 | |
| Satan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | Sillinger | 1 | 3 | +2 | 5 | |
| Varada | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | Svoboda | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | |
| Wooolley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Tucker | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | |
| Zhitnik | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 | Zyuzin | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Pittis | ankle | Burr | healthy | |||||||
| Kruse | healthy | Muir | not w/team | |||||||
| Gardiner | not w/team | |||||||||
| Puppa | ribs/neck | |||||||||
| Mara | jaw | |||||||||
| Simpson | not w/team |