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Saturday, January 6, 1996 · Montreal Forum

Sabres 7 at Canadiens 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 96OVR Pierre Turgeon Canadiens First Star 3G · 1A · 4 SOG C 96OVR Pat LaFontaine Sabres Second Star 2G · 1A · 7 SOG R 91OVR Jason Dawe Sabres Third Star 3G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:14 Mark Recchi (12) Pierre Turgeon (28), Vladimir Malakhov (7) BUF 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 2:04 Martin Rucinsky (8) SHG Saku Koivu (11) BUF 0 – 2 MTL
  3. 6:26 Jason Dawe (8) Unassisted BUF 1 – 2 MTL
  4. 13:46 Jason Dawe (9) Dave Hannan (5), Michael Peca (7) BUF 2 – 2 MTL
  5. 14:50 Pierre Turgeon (18) PPG Unassisted BUF 2 – 3 MTL
  6. 15:58 Donald Audette (12) Pat LaFontaine (24), Brent Hughes (6) BUF 3 – 3 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 3:01 Pierre Turgeon (19) PPG Valeri Bure (10) BUF 3 – 4 MTL
  2. 3:59 Pat LaFontaine (16) Yuri Khmylev (15), Donald Audette (11) BUF 4 – 4 MTL
  3. 16:41 Valeri Bure (8) Turner Stevenson (6), Saku Koivu (12) BUF 4 – 5 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 4:40 Jason Dawe (10) Garry Galley (21), Dave Hannan (6) BUF 5 – 5 MTL
  2. 10:47 Pierre Turgeon (20) Mark Recchi (25) BUF 5 – 6 MTL
  3. 17:02 Randy Burridge (13) PPG Dave Hannan (7), Derek Plante (10) BUF 6 – 6 MTL
  4. 17:20 Pat LaFontaine (17) Donald Audette (12), Mike Wilson (3) BUF 7 – 6 MTL

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pat LaFontaine C 2 1 7 0 0 +2 0:00 2.95
Jason Dawe R 3 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.85
Donald Audette R 1 2 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.53
Dave Hannan C 0 3 0 0 0 +4 0:00 2.48
Mike Wilson D 0 1 0 0 0 +4 0:00 1.23
Yuri Khmylev L 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Michael Peca C 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Randy Burridge L 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Brent Hughes L 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Garry Galley D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Mark Astley D 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.37
Doug Houda D 0 0 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.30
Derek Plante C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.25
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Craig Muni D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Biron — 6 4 2 .667 19:26 -1.10
John Blue W 21 17 4 .810 40:34 -1.30

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pierre Turgeon C 3 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 3.33
Valeri Bure R 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Mark Recchi R 1 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Saku Koivu C 0 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.33
Turner Stevenson R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Martin Rucinsky L 1 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.75
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.40
Chris Murray R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Marc Bureau C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Brian Savage L 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Yves Racine D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Andrei Kovalenko R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Benoit Brunet L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Lyle Odelein D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Vincent Damphousse C 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Rory Fitzpatrick D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault L 33 26 7 .788 58:43 -2.65