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Saturday, October 26, 1996 · Marine Midland Arena

Whalers 3 at Sabres 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 59OVR Pat LaFontaine Sabres First Star 1G · 2A · 7 SOG D 97OVR Richard Smehlik Sabres Second Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG D 81OVR Alexei Zhitnik Sabres Third Star 3A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:11 Anatoli Semenov (1) PPG Alexei Zhitnik (2), Pat LaFontaine (3) HFD 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 7:36 Robert Kron (1) PPG Andrei Nikolishin (5), Keith Primeau (3) HFD 1 – 1 BUF
  3. 10:11 Kevin Dineen (4) PPG Andrew Cassels (5), Glen Wesley (5) HFD 2 – 1 BUF
  4. 14:56 Pat LaFontaine (2) Alexei Zhitnik (3), Richard Smehlik (4) HFD 2 – 2 BUF
  5. 15:33 Richard Smehlik (1) Michael Peca (1), Randy Burridge (5) HFD 2 – 3 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 1:54 Darryl Shannon (1) Jason Dawe (4) HFD 2 – 4 BUF
  2. 3:11 Andrei Nikolishin (2) Keith Primeau (4), Adam Burt (2) HFD 3 – 4 BUF
  3. 7:50 Richard Smehlik (2) PPG Alexei Zhitnik (4), Pat LaFontaine (4) HFD 3 – 5 BUF
  4. 15:57 Rob Ray (1) Anatoli Semenov (1), Dixon Ward (4) HFD 3 – 6 BUF

3rd Period

No scoring

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Andrei Nikolishin C 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.68
Keith Primeau C 0 2 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.63
Robert Kron C 1 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.13
Kevin Dineen R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Adam Burt D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Glen Wesley D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Andrew Cassels C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Nelson Emerson R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Paul Ranheim L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jeff O'Neill C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Alexander Godynyuk D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Glen Featherstone D 0 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.22
Steven Rice R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Mark Janssens C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Stu Grimson L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Marek Malik D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke L 27 21 6 .778 59:49 -2.40

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pat LaFontaine C 1 2 7 0 0 +2 0:00 2.83
Richard Smehlik D 2 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.50
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 3 1 0 0 +2 0:00 2.25
Anatoli Semenov C 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Dixon Ward L 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Darryl Shannon D 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Jason Dawe R 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Randy Burridge L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Michael Peca C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Rob Ray R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.45
Michal Grosek L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Curtis Brown C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Garry Galley D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.07
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Derek Plante C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 29 26 3 .897 60:00 0.35