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Thursday, October 24, 1996 · Marine Midland Arena

Canadiens 3 at Sabres 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 88OVR Derek Plante Sabres First Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG C 85OVR Brian Holzinger Sabres Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG C 53OVR Pat LaFontaine Sabres Third Star 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:12 Derek Plante (3) Dixon Ward (3), Rob Ray (1) MTL 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 17:48 Benoit Brunet (2) Turner Stevenson (1), Vincent Damphousse (6) MTL 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 0:18 Matthew Barnaby (1) Unassisted MTL 1 – 2 BUF
  2. 6:46 Brian Holzinger (3) SHG Derek Plante (4), Bob Boughner (2) MTL 1 – 3 BUF
  3. 10:44 Scott Thornton (2) Rory Fitzpatrick (1), Peter Popovic (2) MTL 2 – 3 BUF
  4. 12:31 Saku Koivu (4) David Wilkie (3) MTL 3 – 3 BUF
  5. 18:43 Donald Audette (1) PPG Pat LaFontaine (2), Alexei Zhitnik (1) MTL 3 – 4 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 13:20 Michael Peca (3) Jason Dawe (3), Randy Burridge (4) MTL 3 – 5 BUF
  2. 16:20 Derek Plante (4) Brian Holzinger (2) MTL 3 – 6 BUF

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Saku Koivu C 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
David Wilkie D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Benoit Brunet L 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.53
Scott Thornton L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.53
Peter Popovic D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Rory Fitzpatrick D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Stephane Richer R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Vincent Damphousse C 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.25
Turner Stevenson R 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.25
Mark Recchi R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Pierre Turgeon C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Brian Savage L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Marc Bureau C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Donald Brashear L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.68
Darcy Tucker R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Pat Jablonski L 17 13 4 .765 39:56 -1.70
Jocelyn Thibault — 10 8 2 .800 20:00 -0.70

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Derek Plante C 2 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.65
Brian Holzinger C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.68
Pat LaFontaine C 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Michael Peca C 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Donald Audette R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Randy Burridge L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Dixon Ward L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Jason Dawe R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Matthew Barnaby R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.45
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 0 0 +4 0:00 0.45
Michal Grosek L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 1 0 0 +3 0:00 0.15
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Rob Ray R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.05
Bob Boughner D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.12
Curtis Brown C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 30 27 3 .900 60:00 0.45