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Sunday, April 14, 1996 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Whalers 1 at Sabres 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 85OVR Derek Plante Sabres First Star 2G · 9 SOG G 72OVR Andrei Trefilov Sabres Second Star 25 SV · .962 R 84OVR Dane Jackson Sabres Third Star 2A · 2 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:38 Brendan Shanahan (44) Andrei Nikolishin (37) HFD 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 18:39 Derek Plante (22) Alexei Zhitnik (30), Rob Ray (6) HFD 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 17:45 Pat LaFontaine (40) PPG Randy Burridge (33), Jason Dawe (25) HFD 1 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 1:59 Derek Plante (23) Dane Jackson (3), Brent Hughes (9) HFD 1 – 3 BUF
  2. 11:39 Michael Peca (11) Dane Jackson (4), Brent Hughes (10) HFD 1 – 4 BUF

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Nelson Emerson R 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Brian Glynn D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Andrew Cassels C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Steven Rice R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Paul Ranheim L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mark Janssens C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Sami Kapanen R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Scott Daniels L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Marek Malik D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jeff Brown D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Jeff O'Neill C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Jason McBain D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Brendan Shanahan L 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.60
Kevin Dineen R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -1.28
Brad McCrimmon D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -1.42
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke — 10 9 1 .900 10:37 0.15
Jason Muzzatti L 29 26 3 .897 49:23 0.35

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Derek Plante C 2 0 9 0 0 +1 0:00 2.32
Dane Jackson R 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Brent Hughes L 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Michael Peca C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Pat LaFontaine C 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Randy Burridge L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Jason Dawe R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Bob Boughner D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Vaclav Varada R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Scott Pearson L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Mark Astley D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.23
Scott Nichol C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.60
Brad May L 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 -0.75
Garry Galley D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -1.05
Rob Ray R 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.17
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Andrei Trefilov W 26 25 1 .962 60:00 1.75