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Wednesday, March 8, 1972 · Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena

Sabres 3 at Golden Seals 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 62OVR Joey Johnston Golden Seals First Star 3G · 1A · 4 SOG RC R 63OVR Gary Croteau Golden Seals Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG R 48OVR Danny Lawson Sabres Third Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:18 Joey Johnston (12) Rick Smith (14), Bobby Sheehan (22) BUF 0 – 1 CGS
  2. 5:49 Danny Lawson (7) Don Luce (5), Larry Hillman (10) BUF 1 – 1 CGS
  3. 6:05 Gary Croteau (8) Paul Shmyr (20), Joey Johnston (12) BUF 1 – 2 CGS
  4. 19:12 Joey Johnston (13) Unassisted BUF 1 – 3 CGS
  5. 19:55 Larry Hillman (2) Jim Lorentz (12), Gerry Meehan (25) BUF 2 – 3 CGS

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 10:12 Reggie Leach (9) PPG Unassisted BUF 2 – 4 CGS
  2. 14:23 Wayne Carleton (17) Bobby Sheehan (23), Paul Shmyr (21) BUF 2 – 5 CGS
  3. 15:30 John Gould (1) Don Luce (6), Danny Lawson (6) BUF 3 – 5 CGS
  4. 15:57 Joey Johnston (14) Gary Croteau (10) BUF 3 – 6 CGS

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Danny Lawson R 1 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.90
Don Luce C 0 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.63
Larry Hillman D 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Gerry Meehan C 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
John Gould R 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Jim Lorentz C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Steve Atkinson R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Randy Wyrozub C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Rene Robert R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Craig Ramsay L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Mike Robitaille D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Al Hamilton D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Tracy Pratt D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Gilbert Perreault C 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Mike Byers R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Jim Watson D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Roger Crozier L 24 20 4 .833 53:55 -1.00
Dave Dryden — 5 3 2 .600 6:05 -1.20

California Golden Seals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Joey Johnston L 3 1 4 0 0 +4 0:00 3.78
Gary Croteau R 1 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.98
Paul Shmyr D 0 2 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.78
Bobby Sheehan C 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Reggie Leach R 1 0 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.28
Wayne Carleton L 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Dick Redmond D 0 0 3 0 0 +3 0:00 0.68
Rick Smith D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Ernie Hicke L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Craig Patrick R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Gerry Pinder L 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Gary Jarrett L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Marshall Johnston D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Stan Gilbertson L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Norm Ferguson R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Ivan Boldirev C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Bob Stewart D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Meloche W 31 28 3 .903 60:00 0.55