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Saturday, December 31, 1988 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Flyers 3 at Sabres 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 85OVR Mike Bullard Flyers First Star 1G · 4 SOG C 77OVR Dave Poulin Flyers Second Star 1G · 2 SOG R 64OVR Scott Mellanby Flyers Third Star 1A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:28 Mike Bullard (11) Rick Tocchet (19) PHI 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 16:46 Scott Metcalfe (1) John Tucker (22), Calle Johansson (4) PHI 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 5:47 Terry Carkner (8) Murray Craven (12), Pelle Eklund (28) PHI 2 – 1 BUF
  2. 9:47 Rick Vaive (15) Mike Ramsey (6) PHI 2 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 15:16 Dave Poulin (5) Scott Mellanby (15), Derrick Smith (11) PHI 3 – 2 BUF

Philadelphia Flyers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mike Bullard C 1 0 4 0 1.05
Dave Poulin C 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Scott Mellanby R 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Pelle Eklund C 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Terry Carkner D 1 0 2 0 0.90
Murray Craven L 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Derrick Smith L 0 1 3 +1 0.63
Rick Tocchet R 0 1 1 0 0.55
Brian Propp L 0 0 5 0 0.38
Jay Wells D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Gord Murphy D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Jeff Chychrun D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Moe Mantha D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Kjell Samuelsson D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Ron Sutter C 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Doug Sulliman L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Craig Berube L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dave Brown R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ron Hextall W 23 21 2 .913 60:00 0.60

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Rick Vaive R 1 0 4 +1 0.90
John Tucker R 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Calle Johansson D 0 1 2 0 0.78
Mike Ramsey D 0 1 2 0 0.78
Scott Metcalfe L 1 0 3 +1 0.60
Pierre Turgeon C 0 0 4 0 0.30
Mikael Andersson R 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Uwe Krupp D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Jeff Parker R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Lindy Ruff L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mark Napier R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Larry Playfair D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Doug Bodger D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Christian Ruuttu C 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Ken Priestlay C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Scott Arniel L 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Mike Foligno R 0 0 2 -2 -0.30
Phil Housley D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Daren Puppa L 31 28 3 .903 59:22 0.55