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Monday, March 18, 1996 · Centre Molson

Sabres 2 at Canadiens 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 93OVR Andrei Kovalenko Canadiens First Star 2G · 5 SOG R 92OVR Mark Recchi Canadiens Second Star 2A · 1 SOG D 92OVR Patrice Brisebois Canadiens Third Star 1G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:28 Matthew Barnaby (13) Charlie Huddy (5), Randy Burridge (23) BUF 1 – 0 MTL
  2. 6:35 Jason Dawe (17) Pat LaFontaine (40) BUF 2 – 0 MTL
  3. 14:41 Patrice Brisebois (8) Turner Stevenson (13), Chris Murray (4) BUF 2 – 1 MTL
  4. 19:55 Andrei Kovalenko (25) Mark Recchi (45), Pierre Turgeon (47) BUF 2 – 2 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 9:48 Andrei Kovalenko (26) Saku Koivu (23), Mark Recchi (46) BUF 2 – 3 MTL

3rd Period

No scoring

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jason Dawe R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Pat LaFontaine C 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Randy Burridge L 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Charlie Huddy D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Matthew Barnaby R 1 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.53
Brad May L 0 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Brent Hughes L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Garry Galley D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Derek Plante C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Michael Peca C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Yuri Khmylev L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Michal Grosek L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Rob Conn R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Rob Ray R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek L 35 32 3 .914 59:14 0.95

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Andrei Kovalenko R 2 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.18
Mark Recchi R 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.48
Patrice Brisebois D 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Pierre Turgeon C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Saku Koivu C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Chris Murray R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Turner Stevenson R 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Vincent Damphousse C 0 0 7 0 0 -1 0:00 0.38
Peter Popovic D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Brian Savage L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
David Wilkie D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Marc Bureau C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Valeri Bure R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Martin Rucinsky L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Donald Brashear L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Lyle Odelein D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault W 25 23 2 .920 60:00 0.80