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Sunday, January 28, 1973 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Flames 8 at Sabres 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 62OVR Keith McCreary Flames First Star 3G · 1A · 5 SOG C 78OVR Rey Comeau Flames Second Star 3G · 1A · 6 SOG RC L 81OVR Ernie Hicke Islanders Third Star 1G · 3A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:01 Rey Comeau (13) Leon Rochefort (13), Noel Picard (9) AFM 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 11:53 Jim Lorentz (17) Gerry Meehan (14) AFM 1 – 1 BUF
  3. 17:26 Rene Robert (30) PPG Rick Martin (26), Larry Hillman (18) AFM 1 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 1:01 Keith McCreary (14) Curt Bennett (11), Leon Rochefort (14) AFM 2 – 2 BUF
  2. 4:42 Keith McCreary (15) PPG Ernie Hicke (20), Curt Bennett (12) AFM 3 – 2 BUF
  3. 8:35 Larry Romanchych (14) Bobby Leiter (22), Keith McCreary (17) AFM 4 – 2 BUF
  4. 9:02 Larry Mickey (4) Gerry Meehan (15) AFM 4 – 3 BUF
  5. 16:11 Hugh Harris (10) Mike Robitaille (14), Gerry Meehan (16) AFM 4 – 4 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 2:34 Keith McCreary (16) Unassisted AFM 5 – 4 BUF
  2. 4:22 Jim Lorentz (18) Hugh Harris (18), Gerry Meehan (17) AFM 5 – 5 BUF
  3. 9:02 Rey Comeau (14) Noel Picard (10), Ernie Hicke (21) AFM 6 – 5 BUF
  4. 12:07 Rey Comeau (15) Ernie Hicke (22), Leon Rochefort (15) AFM 7 – 5 BUF
  5. 16:43 Ernie Hicke (11) Larry Romanchych (18), Rey Comeau (15) AFM 8 – 5 BUF

Atlanta Flames

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Keith McCreary R 3 1 5 +3 3.70
Rey Comeau C 3 1 6 +2 3.63
Ernie Hicke L 1 3 2 +2 3.08
Leon Rochefort R 0 3 2 +2 2.33
Curt Bennett R 0 2 1 +2 1.63
Noel Picard D 0 2 2 0 1.40
Larry Romanchych R 1 1 1 0 1.30
Bobby Leiter C 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Randy Manery D 0 0 0 +3 0.45
Billy MacMillan R 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Pat Quinn D 0 0 2 +2 0.30
Bob Paradise D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Lew Morrison R 0 0 0 0 0.00
John Stewart L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Jacques Richard L 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Kerry Ketter D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Bill Plager D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Phil Myre W 31 26 5 .839 60:00 -1.15

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Gerry Meehan C 0 4 3 0 2.73
Jim Lorentz C 2 0 4 -1 1.65
Hugh Harris C 1 1 3 0 1.60
Larry Mickey R 1 0 2 0 0.90
Rene Robert R 1 0 2 -2 0.60
Larry Hillman D 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Mike Robitaille D 0 1 4 -3 0.33
Rick Martin L 0 1 1 -3 0.25
Randy Wyrozub C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Craig Ramsay L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Don Luce C 0 0 3 0 0.07
Tim Horton D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
John Gould R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jim Schoenfeld D 0 0 1 +1 -0.08
Steve Atkinson R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Gilbert Perreault C 0 0 2 -3 -0.30
Tracy Pratt D 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Roger Crozier L 26 18 8 .692 60:00 -4.20