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Wednesday, January 29, 1997 · Marine Midland Arena

Penguins 1 at Sabres 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 73OVR Philippe De Rouville Penguins First Star 36 SV · .947 RC D 97OVR Richard Smehlik Sabres Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG G 99OVR Dominik Hasek Sabres Third Star 21 SV · .955

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:28 Rob Ray (7) Brad May (3), Richard Smehlik (10) PIT 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 13:16 Michael Peca (11) SHG Dixon Ward (21) PIT 0 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 2:18 Jaromir Jagr (42) PPG Petr Nedved (24), Ron Francis (42) PIT 1 – 2 BUF
  2. 19:32 Richard Smehlik (8) Alexei Zhitnik (17) PIT 1 – 3 BUF

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Jaromir Jagr R 1 0 2 -2 0.60
Ron Francis C 0 1 2 -2 0.48
Petr Nedved C 0 1 2 -1 0.33
Glen Murray R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Greg Johnson C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Tyler Wright C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Andreas Johansson L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dave Roche L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mario Lemieux C 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Francois Leroux D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Joe Mullen R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Stu Barnes C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
J.J. Daigneault D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Alex Hicks L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Craig Muni D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Jason Woolley D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Kevin Hatcher D 0 0 1 -2 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Philippe De Rouville L 38 36 2 .947 59:24 2.10

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Richard Smehlik D 1 1 2 +1 1.68
Michael Peca C 1 0 3 +2 1.28
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 4 +1 1.08
Brad May L 0 1 4 +1 0.93
Dixon Ward L 0 1 0 +2 0.93
Rob Ray R 1 0 1 +1 0.83
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 3 +1 0.38
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 3 +1 0.23
Derek Plante C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Donald Audette R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Jay McKee D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Garry Galley D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Jason Dawe R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 5 0 0.08
Vaclav Varada R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Michal Grosek L 0 0 3 0 0.07
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 22 21 1 .955 60:00 1.35