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Friday, December 15, 1995 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Rangers 4 at Sabres 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 50OVR Alexei Zhitnik Sabres First Star 1G · 2A · 6 SOG C 98OVR Mark Messier Rangers Second Star 3A · 3 SOG R 96OVR Pat Verbeek Rangers Third Star 2G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:01 Michael Peca (3) Derek Plante (7), Alexei Zhitnik (15) NYR 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 13:42 Dave Hannan (4) Mike Wilson (1), Brad May (12) NYR 0 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 2:24 Pat Verbeek (20) PPG Mark Messier (21) NYR 1 – 2 BUF
  2. 4:32 Yuri Khmylev (7) Alexei Zhitnik (16), Dave Hannan (3) NYR 1 – 3 BUF
  3. 5:45 Alexei Zhitnik (4) PPG Randy Burridge (12), Garry Galley (15) NYR 1 – 4 BUF
  4. 15:33 Dane Jackson (2) Brent Hughes (2), Craig Muni (3) NYR 1 – 5 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 9:12 Stephane Matteau (4) PPG Ulf Samuelsson (8), Alex Kovalev (18) NYR 2 – 5 BUF
  2. 13:38 Pat Verbeek (21) Mark Messier (22), Brian Leetch (29) NYR 3 – 5 BUF
  3. 19:18 Jeff Beukeboom (2) Mark Messier (23), Niklas Sundstrom (5) NYR 4 – 5 BUF

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mark Messier C 0 3 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.25
Pat Verbeek R 2 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.73
Brian Leetch D 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.15
Jeff Beukeboom D 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Stephane Matteau L 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Alex Kovalev R 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.18
Wayne Presley R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Steve Larouche C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Daniel Lacroix C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.07
Kevin Lowe D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Nick Kypreos L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Doug Lidster D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Bruce Driver D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Adam Graves L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Ray Ferraro C 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.52
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -2.18
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter L 28 23 5 .821 59:22 -1.45

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alexei Zhitnik D 1 2 6 0 0 +1 0:00 2.60
Dave Hannan C 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.30
Yuri Khmylev L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Craig Muni D 0 1 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.00
Derek Plante C 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Dane Jackson R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.83
Michael Peca C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.83
Brent Hughes L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Mike Wilson D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Randy Burridge L 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Garry Galley D 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.32
Brad May L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.25
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mark Astley D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Grant Jennings D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dixon Ward L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Pat LaFontaine C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 32 28 4 .875 60:00 -0.20