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Sunday, December 31, 1989 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Islanders 4 at Sabres 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 98OVR Pat LaFontaine Islanders First Star 3G · 6 SOG G 96OVR Mark Fitzpatrick Islanders Second Star 38 SV · .950 L 86OVR Derek King Islanders Third Star 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:06 Rick Vaive (18) Alexander Mogilny (15), Christian Ruuttu (24) NYI 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 14:04 Pat LaFontaine (31) Jeff Norton (29), Randy Wood (8) NYI 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 5:48 Pat LaFontaine (32) Derek King (11) NYI 2 – 1 BUF
  2. 7:10 Jari Gronstrand (1) Brent Sutter (15) NYI 3 – 1 BUF
  3. 18:04 Scott Arniel (11) Benoit Hogue (5) NYI 3 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 15:55 Pat LaFontaine (33) Derek King (12), Alan Kerr (11) NYI 4 – 2 BUF

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Pat LaFontaine C 3 0 6 +2 3.00
Derek King L 0 2 3 0 1.48
Randy Wood R 0 1 3 +2 1.15
Jari Gronstrand D 1 0 1 +2 1.13
Jeff Norton D 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Alan Kerr R 0 1 4 +1 0.93
Brent Sutter C 0 1 3 +1 0.85
Don Maloney L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Brad Lauer R 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Doug Crossman D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Patrick Flatley R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Ken Baumgartner L 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Wayne Mcbean D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Hubie Mcdonough C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Mick Vukota R 0 0 0 0 -0.15
David Volek L 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Gary Nylund D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mark Fitzpatrick W 40 38 2 .950 60:00 2.30

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Rick Vaive R 1 0 6 0 1.20
Alexander Mogilny R 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Scott Arniel L 1 0 3 -1 0.83
Christian Ruuttu C 0 1 2 +1 0.78
Benoit Hogue L 0 1 0 0 0.63
Phil Housley D 0 0 8 -1 0.45
Grant Ledyard D 0 0 3 +1 0.38
Dave Snuggerud L 0 0 6 -1 0.30
Doug Bodger D 0 0 5 -1 0.23
Steve Ludzik C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Kevin Maguire R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Dean Kennedy D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mike Foligno R 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Scott Metcalfe L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Dave Andreychuk L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Mike Ramsey D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Uwe Krupp D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Pierre Turgeon C 0 0 1 -2 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Daren Puppa L 30 26 4 .867 59:09 -0.40