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Saturday, December 21, 1996 · Corel Centre

Sabres 3 at Senators 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 85OVR Donald Audette Sabres First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG C 85OVR Brian Holzinger Sabres Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG G 99OVR Dominik Hasek Sabres Third Star 27 SV · .931

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:52 Janne Laukkanen (3) PPG Randy Cunneyworth (10), Sergei Zholtok (2) BUF 0 – 1 OTT
  2. 4:25 Donald Audette (11) Dixon Ward (14), Brian Holzinger (14) BUF 1 – 1 OTT
  3. 8:38 Brian Holzinger (11) Donald Audette (8), Garry Galley (15) BUF 2 – 1 OTT

2nd Period

  1. 8:36 Denny Lambert (3) Bruce Gardiner (4), Andreas Dackell (7) BUF 2 – 2 OTT

3rd Period

  1. 8:32 Michael Peca (6) Unassisted BUF 3 – 2 OTT

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Donald Audette R 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Brian Holzinger C 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.60
Michael Peca C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Garry Galley D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Dixon Ward L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Jason Dawe R 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Randy Burridge L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Derek Plante C 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Anatoli Semenov C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Michal Grosek L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Barrie Moore L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 29 27 2 .931 60:00 1.20

Ottawa Senators

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Andreas Dackell R 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Denny Lambert L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Bruce Gardiner R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Janne Laukkanen D 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Randy Cunneyworth L 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Steve Duchesne D 0 0 6 0 0 0 0:00 0.45
Sergei Zholtok C 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.40
Daniel Alfredsson R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Alexei Yashin C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Denis Chasse R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Shaun Van Allen C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Jason Zent L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Alexandre Daigle R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Dave Hannan C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Frantisek Musil D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Lance Pitlick D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Wade Redden D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jason York D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Damian Rhodes L 25 22 3 .880 59:17 -0.05