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Wednesday, January 24, 1996 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Whalers 2 at Sabres 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 85OVR Derek Plante Sabres First Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG L 72OVR Brad May Sabres Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG D 56OVR Mark Astley Sabres Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 14:53 Andrew Cassels (11) Geoff Sanderson (18), Adam Burt (5) HFD 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 19:46 Brad May (10) Pat LaFontaine (26), Derek Plante (13) HFD 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 8:13 Mark Astley (1) Brad May (14), Derek Plante (14) HFD 1 – 2 BUF
  2. 11:58 Andrei Nikolishin (4) PPG Paul Ranheim (9), Jeff Brown (22) HFD 2 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 4:35 Derek Plante (10) Jason Dawe (14) HFD 2 – 3 BUF
  2. 17:10 Michael Peca (6) PPG Mark Astley (11) HFD 2 – 4 BUF

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Andrew Cassels C 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Geoff Sanderson L 0 1 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.85
Adam Burt D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Jeff Brown D 0 1 7 0 0 -3 0:00 0.70
Andrei Nikolishin C 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Paul Ranheim L 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Brendan Shanahan L 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Glen Featherstone D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Nelson Emerson R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Brad McCrimmon D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Kevin Dineen R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Steven Rice R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Robert Kron C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Brian Glynn D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Scott Daniels L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.45
Kelly Chase R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.53
Mark Janssens C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke L 29 25 4 .862 57:45 -0.50

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Derek Plante C 1 2 2 0 0 +3 0:00 2.60
Brad May L 1 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.98
Mark Astley D 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Jason Dawe R 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
Michael Peca C 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Pat LaFontaine C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Yuri Khmylev L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Doug Houda D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Randy Burridge L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Charlie Huddy D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Garry Galley D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.07
Dave Hannan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Rob Ray R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.45
Brent Hughes L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 33 31 2 .939 60:00 1.60