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Sunday, February 25, 1996 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Panthers 1 at Sabres 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 99OVR Dominik Hasek Sabres First Star 45 SV · .978 C 96OVR Pat LaFontaine Sabres Second Star 3G · 5 SOG L 67OVR Michal Grosek Sabres Third Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:59 Pat LaFontaine (28) PPG Derek Plante (19), Garry Galley (30) FLA 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 9:04 Scott Pearson (3) Michael Peca (15) FLA 0 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 2:52 Michal Grosek (2) Brad May (21) FLA 0 – 3 BUF
  2. 7:28 Pat LaFontaine (29) Garry Galley (31) FLA 0 – 4 BUF
  3. 18:17 Pat LaFontaine (30) PPG Michal Grosek (2), Alexei Zhitnik (27) FLA 0 – 5 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 7:24 Terry Carkner (3) PPG Tom Fitzgerald (17), Rob Niedermayer (24) FLA 1 – 5 BUF
  2. 13:03 Michal Grosek (3) Yuri Khmylev (17) FLA 1 – 6 BUF

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 1 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.55
Rob Niedermayer C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Radek Dvorak R 0 0 6 0 0 -1 0:00 0.30
Jody Hull R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Gord Murphy D 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Jesse Belanger C 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Brad Smyth R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Brian Skrudland C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Terry Carkner D 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.07
Dave Lowry L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Mike Hough L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Johan Garpenlov L 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Stu Barnes C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Robert Svehla D 0 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.22
Geoff Smith D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Paul Laus D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.53
Ed Jovanovski D 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 -0.60
Scott Mellanby R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.20
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Vanbiesbrouck L 31 25 6 .806 60:00 -2.00

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pat LaFontaine C 3 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.93
Michal Grosek L 2 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 2.58
Garry Galley D 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.48
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
Yuri Khmylev L 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Michael Peca C 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Scott Pearson L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Derek Plante C 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Brad May L 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.55
Charlie Huddy D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Randy Burridge L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dave Hannan C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Brent Hughes L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 46 45 1 .978 60:00 3.75