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Wednesday, December 11, 1996 · Centre Molson

Sabres 3 at Canadiens 2

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 99OVR Dominik Hasek Sabres First Star 43 SV · .956 D 97OVR Richard Smehlik Sabres Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 88OVR Michael Peca Sabres Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 10:49 Richard Smehlik (3) Michael Peca (9), Randy Burridge (11) BUF 1 – 0 MTL
  2. 11:12 Donald Audette (8) Richard Smehlik (8), Michal Grosek (7) BUF 2 – 0 MTL
  3. 14:53 Martin Rucinsky (12) Valeri Bure (3), Vincent Damphousse (19) BUF 2 – 1 MTL
  4. 17:24 Peter Popovic (1) Darcy Tucker (1), Turner Stevenson (4) BUF 2 – 2 MTL

3rd Period

No scoring

Overtime

  1. 2:42 Dixon Ward (4) Randy Burridge (12), Michael Peca (10) BUF 3 – 2 MTL

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Richard Smehlik D 1 1 4 0 0 +3 0:00 2.13
Michael Peca C 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Randy Burridge L 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Dixon Ward L 1 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.28
Donald Audette R 1 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.13
Michal Grosek L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Garry Galley D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Barrie Moore L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Jason Dawe R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Derek Plante C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Anatoli Semenov C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Rob Ray R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 45 43 2 .956 62:42 2.80

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Valeri Bure R 0 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.00
Martin Rucinsky L 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Peter Popovic D 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Darcy Tucker R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Turner Stevenson R 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Mark Recchi R 0 0 8 0 0 0 0:00 0.60
Brian Savage L 0 0 7 0 0 0 0:00 0.53
Stephane Richer R 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.23
Vincent Damphousse C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.18
Scott Thornton L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
David Wilkie D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Pierre Sevigny L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Chris Murray R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Sebastien Bordeleau C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Murray Baron D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault L 29 26 3 .897 62:42 0.35