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Tuesday, January 7, 1997 · San Jose Arena

Sabres 1 at Sharks 1

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 79OVR Steve Shields Sabres First Star 42 SV · .977 RC G 63OVR Chris Terreri Blackhawks Second Star 22 SV · .957 L 91OVR Jeff Friesen Sharks Third Star 1G · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 15:11 Richard Smehlik (7) Randy Burridge (15), Jason Dawe (14) BUF 1 – 0 SJS

3rd Period

  1. 6:39 Jeff Friesen (12) Al Iafrate (9), Owen Nolan (18) BUF 1 – 1 SJS

Overtime

No scoring

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Randy Burridge L 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Jason Dawe R 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Richard Smehlik D 1 0 1 0 0.83
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 3 +1 0.38
Donald Audette R 0 0 6 0 0.15
Barrie Moore L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Derek Plante C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Michael Peca C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Dixon Ward L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Garry Galley D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Michal Grosek L 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Rob Ray R 0 0 1 0 -0.45
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Shields T 43 42 1 .977 65:00 3.45

San Jose Sharks

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Jeff Friesen L 1 0 6 +1 1.35
Al Iafrate D 0 1 4 0 0.93
Owen Nolan R 0 1 3 0 0.85
Darren Turcotte C 0 0 5 0 0.38
Tony Granato R 0 0 5 0 0.23
Viktor Kozlov C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Todd Ewen R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Andrei Nazarov L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Michal Sykora D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Stephen Guolla C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Ulf Dahlen R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Doug Bodger D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bernie Nicholls C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Ron Sutter C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Greg Hawgood D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Marcus Ragnarsson D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Todd Gill D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Dody Wood C 0 0 0 0 -1.50
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Chris Terreri T 23 22 1 .957 65:00 1.45