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Wednesday, April 3, 1996 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Capitals 5 at Sabres 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Peter Bondra Capitals First Star 4G · 10 SOG C 93OVR Michal Pivonka Capitals Second Star 4A · 5 SOG C 51OVR Jeff Nelson Capitals Third Star 2A · 1 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:27 Jason Dawe (23) PPG Derek Plante (30), Michal Grosek (4) WSH 0 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 1:25 Peter Bondra (47) Michal Pivonka (58), Jeff Nelson (5) WSH 1 – 1 BUF
  2. 6:11 Peter Bondra (48) Jeff Nelson (6), Michal Pivonka (59) WSH 2 – 1 BUF
  3. 12:49 Peter Bondra (49) SHG Michal Pivonka (60) WSH 3 – 1 BUF
  4. 17:39 Dale Hunter (11) Unassisted WSH 4 – 1 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 15:10 Peter Bondra (50) Michal Pivonka (61) WSH 5 – 1 BUF

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Peter Bondra R 4 0 10 0 0 +4 0:00 4.35
Michal Pivonka C 0 4 5 0 0 +4 0:00 3.48
Jeff Nelson C 0 2 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.78
Dale Hunter C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Calle Johansson D 0 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 0.60
Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.52
Joe Juneau C 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Joe Reekie D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Kelly Miller L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Stefan Ustorf L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Martin Gendron R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jim Johnson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Todd Krygier L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.07
Mike Eagles L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Pat Peake C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Kevin Kaminski C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Carey W 17 16 1 .941 60:00 0.85

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jason Dawe R 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Michal Grosek L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Derek Plante C 0 1 1 0 0 -4 0:00 0.10
Bob Boughner D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Brent Hughes L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Garry Galley D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Pat LaFontaine C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dane Jackson R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Mark Astley D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Brad May L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Randy Burridge L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Scott Pearson L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Andrei Trefilov L 41 36 5 .878 60:00 -0.15