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Tuesday, November 26, 1996 · Miami Arena

Sabres 3 at Panthers 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 93OVR Ray Sheppard Panthers First Star 3G · 5 SOG D 87OVR Robert Svehla Panthers Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG R 84OVR Scott Mellanby Panthers Third Star 2A · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:42 Curtis Brown (3) Donald Audette (2), Dixon Ward (9) BUF 1 – 0 FLA

2nd Period

  1. 3:13 Dixon Ward (2) PPG Randy Burridge (8), Alexei Zhitnik (10) BUF 2 – 0 FLA
  2. 10:48 Ray Sheppard (9) Robert Svehla (10) BUF 2 – 1 FLA
  3. 13:10 Ray Sheppard (10) PPG Scott Mellanby (11), Martin Straka (7) BUF 2 – 2 FLA

3rd Period

  1. 1:01 Robert Svehla (3) Scott Mellanby (12), Bill Lindsay (10) BUF 2 – 3 FLA
  2. 7:09 Ray Sheppard (11) PPG Dave Lowry (6), Per Gustafsson (6) BUF 2 – 4 FLA
  3. 15:18 Matthew Barnaby (5) Garry Galley (10), Derek Plante (6) BUF 3 – 4 FLA

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dixon Ward L 1 1 1 0 1.30
Derek Plante C 0 1 5 0 1.00
Matthew Barnaby R 1 0 3 0 0.98
Curtis Brown C 1 0 1 +1 0.98
Donald Audette R 0 1 2 0 0.78
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Garry Galley D 0 1 1 0 0.70
Randy Burridge L 0 1 1 0 0.40
Jason Dawe R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Michal Grosek L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Barrie Moore L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Mike Wilson D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 2 0 0.00
Michael Peca C 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Andrei Trefilov — 21 19 2 .905 40:00 0.40
Dominik Hasek L 12 10 2 .833 19:49 -0.50

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ray Sheppard R 3 0 5 +1 2.78
Robert Svehla D 1 1 3 +2 1.75
Scott Mellanby R 0 2 6 +1 1.70
Dave Lowry L 0 1 2 0 0.78
Bill Lindsay L 0 1 1 0 0.70
Martin Straka C 0 1 3 -1 0.55
Per Gustafsson D 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Radek Dvorak R 0 0 6 0 0.45
Brian Skrudland C 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Mike Hough L 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Terry Carkner D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Paul Laus D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Brad Smyth R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Jody Hull R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Chris Wells C 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Gord Murphy D 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Vanbiesbrouck W 23 20 3 .870 60:00 -0.25