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Friday, January 22, 1988 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Devils 3 at Sabres 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 93OVR Phil Housley Sabres First Star 3G · 1A · 5 SOG C 85OVR Christian Ruuttu Sabres Second Star 2G · 2A · 3 SOG R 78OVR Mikael Andersson Sabres Third Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:55 Phil Housley (19) Mike Donnelly (8) NJD 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 15:27 Phil Housley (20) PPG Jan Ludvig (3), Christian Ruuttu (29) NJD 0 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 2:05 Kirk Muller (25) Pat Verbeek (23), Randy Velischek (1) NJD 1 – 2 BUF
  2. 3:54 Christian Ruuttu (18) PPG Lindy Ruff (10), Mikael Andersson (8) NJD 1 – 3 BUF
  3. 12:21 Bruce Driver (9) Claude Loiselle (14) NJD 2 – 3 BUF
  4. 14:16 Mike Foligno (16) Dave Andreychuk (21) NJD 2 – 4 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 9:25 Christian Ruuttu (19) Ray Sheppard (17), Phil Housley (19) NJD 2 – 5 BUF
  2. 10:27 Mikael Andersson (1) Jan Ludvig (4), Christian Ruuttu (30) NJD 2 – 6 BUF
  3. 13:34 Aaron Broten (16) PPG Bruce Driver (28), Joe Cirella (23) NJD 3 – 6 BUF
  4. 15:54 Phil Housley (21) PPG Doug Smith (13), John Tucker (4) NJD 3 – 7 BUF

New Jersey Devils

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bruce Driver D 1 1 7 0 0 -1 0:00 1.75
Aaron Broten C 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Claude Loiselle C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
David Maley L 0 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.45
Joe Cirella D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.40
John MacLean R 0 0 7 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Randy Velischek D 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.18
Kirk Muller L 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.07
Anders Carlsson C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Tom Kurvers D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Craig Wolanin D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Patrik Sundstrom C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Brendan Shanahan L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Doug Sulliman L 0 0 2 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.45
Pat Verbeek R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.73
Ken Daneyko D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -1.13
Jack O'Callahan D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.28
Jim Korn D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.58
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Alain Chevrier L 41 34 7 .829 60:00 -1.85

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Phil Housley D 3 1 5 0 0 +3 0:00 3.70
Christian Ruuttu C 2 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 3.28
Mikael Andersson R 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Jan Ludvig R 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.55
Mike Donnelly L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Ray Sheppard R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Mike Foligno R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.68
John Tucker R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Shawn Anderson D 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.52
Lindy Ruff L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.48
Dave Andreychuk L 0 1 6 0 0 +1 0:00 0.47
Pierre Turgeon C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Doug Smith C 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.10
Mark Napier R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Calle Johansson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Uwe Krupp D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Scott Arniel L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Bob Halkidis D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -1.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tom Barrasso W 37 34 3 .919 60:00 1.15