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Sunday, December 29, 1985 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Islanders 3 at Sabres 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 96OVR Mike Foligno Sabres First Star 3G · 3 SOG D 87OVR Tomas Jonsson Islanders Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG R 99OVR Mike Bossy Islanders Third Star 1G · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:29 Mike Foligno (16) Lindy Ruff (10), Hannu Virta (12) NYI 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 17:21 Tomas Jonsson (7) PPG John Tonelli (26), Bryan Trottier (22) NYI 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 4:43 Duane Sutter (11) Tomas Jonsson (11) NYI 2 – 1 BUF
  2. 12:14 Mike Bossy (23) Unassisted NYI 3 – 1 BUF
  3. 17:44 Mike Foligno (17) Dave Andreychuk (19), Lindy Ruff (11) NYI 3 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 3:23 Mike Foligno (18) PPG Gilles Hamel (19), Phil Housley (13) NYI 3 – 3 BUF
  2. 11:10 John Tucker (12) PPG Paul Cyr (10), Richie Dunn (3) NYI 3 – 4 BUF

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Tomas Jonsson D 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Mike Bossy R 1 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 1.43
Duane Sutter R 1 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.28
John Tonelli L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Bryan Trottier C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Ken Morrow D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Mikko Makela R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Pat LaFontaine C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Gord Dineen D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Paul Boutilier D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Greg Gilbert L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Patrick Flatley R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Bob Bourne C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Clark Gillies L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Mark Hamway R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Stefan Persson D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Denis Potvin D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.52
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith L 30 26 4 .867 59:46 -0.40

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike Foligno R 3 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.63
Lindy Ruff L 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.40
Gilles Hamel L 0 1 6 0 0 0 0:00 1.08
Phil Housley D 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Dave Andreychuk L 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
John Tucker R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Hannu Virta D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Richie Dunn D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Pat Hughes R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Adam Creighton C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Ramsey D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Paul Cyr L 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.05
Don Lever C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Normand Lacombe R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Larry Playfair D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Sean Mckenna R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Steve Dykstra L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Gaetano Orlando C 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jacques Cloutier W 24 21 3 .875 60:00 -0.15