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Friday, January 24, 1997 · Marine Midland Arena

Oilers 3 at Sabres 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 93OVR Andrei Kovalenko Oilers First Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG D 77OVR Dan Mcgillis Oilers Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG RC G 87OVR Curtis Joseph Oilers Third Star 22 SV · .957

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:25 Andrei Kovalenko (24) PPG Doug Weight (33), David Oliver (2) EDM 1 – 0 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 8:06 Rob Ray (6) Barrie Moore (4), Garry Galley (20) EDM 1 – 1 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 11:29 Ryan Smyth (24) Dan Mcgillis (7), Kevin Lowe (10) EDM 2 – 1 BUF
  2. 13:13 Dan Mcgillis (3) PPG Andrei Kovalenko (20), Dean McAmmond (12) EDM 3 – 1 BUF

Edmonton Oilers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Andrei Kovalenko R 1 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.75
Dan Mcgillis D 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Ryan Smyth L 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.28
Kevin Lowe D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Dean McAmmond C 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Doug Weight C 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
David Oliver R 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Mats Lindgren C 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Mariusz Czerkawski R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Kelly Buchberger R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Rem Murray L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mike Grier R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jeff Norton D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Todd Marchant C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Bryan Marchment D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Greg De Vries D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Luke Richardson D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Curtis Joseph W 23 22 1 .957 60:00 1.45

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Barrie Moore L 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Rob Ray R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Garry Galley D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Jason Dawe R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Dixon Ward L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Randy Burridge L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Donald Audette R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Derek Plante C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Michal Grosek L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Michael Peca C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Brad May L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Shields L 35 32 3 .914 59:09 0.95