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Monday, January 25, 1988 · Brendan Byrne Arena

Sabres 5 at Devils 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 49OVR Doug Smith Sabres First Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG L 69OVR Doug Sulliman Devils Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG C 85OVR Christian Ruuttu Sabres Third Star 1G · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:54 Ray Sheppard (18) Pierre Turgeon (18), Uwe Krupp (6) BUF 1 – 0 NJD
  2. 13:02 Doug Smith (6) Lindy Ruff (11), Kevin Maguire (6) BUF 2 – 0 NJD
  3. 17:18 Mike Foligno (18) PPG Doug Smith (14), Phil Housley (20) BUF 3 – 0 NJD

2nd Period

  1. 9:26 Doug Sulliman (12) PPG Joe Cirella (24), Bruce Driver (29) BUF 3 – 1 NJD

3rd Period

  1. 1:34 Jim Korn (7) PPG Tom Kurvers (12), Doug Sulliman (10) BUF 3 – 2 NJD
  2. 13:53 Christian Ruuttu (21) Unassisted BUF 4 – 2 NJD
  3. 19:50 Jan Ludvig (1) Mikael Andersson (9) BUF 5 – 2 NJD

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Doug Smith C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Christian Ruuttu C 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.28
Phil Housley D 0 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.23
Ray Sheppard R 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Jan Ludvig R 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.05
Mikael Andersson R 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Pierre Turgeon C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Kevin Maguire R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Lindy Ruff L 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.78
Uwe Krupp D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.63
Scott Arniel L 0 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.45
Mike Foligno R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.45
Shawn Anderson D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
John Tucker R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Mike Donnelly L 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Calle Johansson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Mike Ramsey D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Dave Andreychuk L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tom Barrasso W 27 25 2 .926 60:00 1.00

New Jersey Devils

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Doug Sulliman L 1 1 3 0 0 -2 0:00 1.30
Joe Cirella D 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Jim Korn D 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.45
Tom Kurvers D 0 1 3 0 0 -3 0:00 0.40
Bruce Driver D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.40
Pat Verbeek R 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Craig Wolanin D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
John MacLean R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Aaron Broten C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Patrik Sundstrom C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Doug Brown R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Kirk Muller L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Claude Loiselle C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Anders Carlsson C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Perry Anderson L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
David Maley L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Randy Velischek D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Ken Daneyko D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Alain Chevrier L 29 25 4 .862 59:09 -0.50