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Sunday, January 5, 1997 · Marine Midland Arena

Coyotes 1 at Sabres 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 88OVR Derek Plante Sabres First Star 2G · 1A · 7 SOG G 99OVR Dominik Hasek Sabres Second Star 30 SV · .968 D 86OVR Garry Galley Sabres Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:11 Jason Dawe (9) Garry Galley (17) PHX 0 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 5:36 Derek Plante (19) Matthew Barnaby (15), Garry Galley (18) PHX 0 – 2 BUF
  2. 14:15 Cliff Ronning (7) PPG Dave Manson (7), Keith Tkachuk (19) PHX 1 – 2 BUF
  3. 16:58 Michal Grosek (10) Derek Plante (11), Matthew Barnaby (16) PHX 1 – 3 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 0:59 Derek Plante (20) SHG Alexei Zhitnik (14), Dixon Ward (18) PHX 1 – 4 BUF
  2. 3:10 Richard Smehlik (6) Barrie Moore (2), Randy Burridge (14) PHX 1 – 5 BUF

Phoenix Coyotes

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Cliff Ronning C 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Bob Corkum C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Craig Janney C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Shane Doan R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Jim McKenzie L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Gartner R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Igor Korolev C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Teppo Numminen D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Darrin Shannon L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Brad McCrimmon D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jim Johnson D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Dallas Drake R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Jeremy Roenick C 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Jeff Finley D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Dave Manson D 0 1 5 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.42
Oleg Tverdovsky D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Kris King L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.68
Keith Tkachuk L 0 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.17
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Nikolai Khabibulin L 33 28 5 .848 60:00 -0.95

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Derek Plante C 2 1 7 0 0 +2 0:00 2.95
Garry Galley D 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.40
Jason Dawe R 1 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.28
Richard Smehlik D 1 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Matthew Barnaby R 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.17
Randy Burridge L 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Barrie Moore L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Michal Grosek L 1 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.83
Dixon Ward L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.78
Bob Boughner D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Michael Peca C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Donald Audette R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Rob Ray R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 31 30 1 .968 60:00 2.25