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Thursday, January 8, 1987 · Met Center

Sabres 4 at North Stars 5

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 96OVR Neal Broten North Stars First Star 3A · 3 SOG L 75OVR Brian Bellows North Stars Second Star 2G · 6 SOG D 87OVR Ron Wilson North Stars Third Star 2G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:10 David Fenyves (1) Unassisted BUF 1 – 0 MNS
  2. 14:00 Ron Wilson (7) Brian Lawton (10), Dennis Maruk (22) BUF 1 – 1 MNS

2nd Period

  1. 11:05 Ron Wilson (8) PPG Neal Broten (15), Brian MacLellan (16) BUF 1 – 2 MNS

3rd Period

  1. 2:20 Phil Housley (10) Unassisted BUF 2 – 2 MNS
  2. 6:38 Dirk Graham (19) Bob Brooke (14) BUF 2 – 3 MNS
  3. 8:01 Brian Bellows (8) Kent Nilsson (27), Neal Broten (16) BUF 2 – 4 MNS
  4. 15:56 John Tucker (12) Christian Ruuttu (18), Dave Andreychuk (19) BUF 3 – 4 MNS
  5. 17:28 Dave Andreychuk (12) PPG Doug Smith (5), Phil Housley (21) BUF 4 – 4 MNS

Overtime

  1. 1:05 Brian Bellows (9) Neal Broten (17), Kent Nilsson (28) BUF 4 – 5 MNS

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Phil Housley D 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Dave Andreychuk L 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
John Tucker R 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
David Fenyves D 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Christian Ruuttu C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Doug Smith C 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Mike Ramsey D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Adam Creighton C 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Scott Arniel L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Mike Foligno R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Joe Reekie D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Robert Logan R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jeff Parker R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jim Korn D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Lindy Ruff L 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.23
Clark Gillies L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Shawn Anderson D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.68
Wilf Paiement R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.83
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jacques Cloutier L 24 19 5 .792 61:05 -1.85

Minnesota North Stars

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Neal Broten C 0 3 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.25
Brian Bellows L 2 0 6 0 0 +2 0:00 2.25
Ron Wilson D 2 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.80
Kent Nilsson C 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.48
Dirk Graham R 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Bob Brooke R 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Brian Lawton C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Brian MacLellan L 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.33
Dennis Maruk C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.32
Gordie Roberts D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Jari Gronstrand D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dino Ciccarelli R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Craig Hartsburg D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Larry Depalma C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Bob Rouse D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Keith Acton C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Steve Payne L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Frantisek Musil D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kari Takko W 24 20 4 .833 61:05 -1.00