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Friday, October 17, 1986 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Penguins 7 at Sabres 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 99OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins First Star 3G · 2A · 6 SOG C 78OVR Terry Ruskowski Penguins Second Star 4A · 1 SOG L 86OVR Craig Simpson Penguins Third Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:50 Gilbert Perreault (3) Phil Housley (3), Paul Cyr (2) PIT 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 11:39 Rod Buskas (1) Terry Ruskowski (3), Ron Duguay (6) PIT 1 – 1 BUF
  3. 15:30 Mario Lemieux (6) Ron Duguay (7), Terry Ruskowski (4) PIT 2 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 5:01 Mike Hartman (1) SHG Mike Ramsey (1) PIT 2 – 2 BUF
  2. 6:17 John Chabot (2) Bob Errey (2), Dave Hannan (3) PIT 3 – 2 BUF
  3. 11:21 Craig Simpson (2) Mario Lemieux (3), Terry Ruskowski (5) PIT 4 – 2 BUF
  4. 16:58 Mario Lemieux (7) PPG Craig Simpson (2), Warren Young (3) PIT 5 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 2:07 Craig Simpson (3) Mario Lemieux (4), Terry Ruskowski (6) PIT 6 – 2 BUF
  2. 5:33 Christian Ruuttu (2) Jim Korn (1), Doug Smith (1) PIT 6 – 3 BUF
  3. 7:09 Mario Lemieux (8) Doug Bodger (1) PIT 7 – 3 BUF

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mario Lemieux C 3 2 6 0 0 +4 0:00 4.40
Terry Ruskowski C 0 4 1 0 0 +5 0:00 2.80
Craig Simpson L 2 1 3 0 0 +3 0:00 2.80
John Chabot C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Rod Buskas D 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Bob Errey L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Doug Bodger D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Dave Hannan C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.55
Warren Young C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Ville Siren D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Jim Johnson D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Ron Duguay C 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.27
Moe Mantha D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.23
Randy Hillier D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Dan Frawley R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Randy Cunneyworth L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Mike Bullard C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Mike Blaisdell R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Roberto Romano W 29 26 3 .897 60:00 0.35

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Doug Smith C 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Phil Housley D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Christian Ruuttu C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Jim Korn D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Gilbert Perreault C 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.60
Mike Hartman L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.60
Paul Cyr L 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Normand Lacombe R 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Mike Ramsey D 0 1 3 0 0 -4 0:00 0.25
Bill Hajt D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
John Tucker R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Wilf Paiement R 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Lindy Ruff L 0 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.22
Mike Foligno R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 -0.23
Phil Russell D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Dave Andreychuk L 0 0 2 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.45
Clark Gillies L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.52
Jim Hofford D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.42
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tom Barrasso L 33 26 7 .788 60:00 -2.65