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Wednesday, February 12, 1997 · Marine Midland Arena

Canadiens 2 at Sabres 2

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 79OVR Steve Shields Sabres First Star 43 SV · .956 RC G 88OVR Jocelyn Thibault Canadiens Second Star 32 SV · .941 L 94OVR Martin Rucinsky Canadiens Third Star 1G · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:22 Donald Audette (18) Dixon Ward (23), Brian Holzinger (19) MTL 0 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 1:13 Jason Dawe (16) Michael Peca (18), Ed Ronan (1) MTL 0 – 2 BUF
  2. 11:02 Vladimir Malakhov (7) Turner Stevenson (11), Jassen Cullimore (4) MTL 1 – 2 BUF
  3. 12:16 Martin Rucinsky (20) Valeri Bure (12), Vincent Damphousse (41) MTL 2 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

No scoring

Overtime

No scoring

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Martin Rucinsky L 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.28
Vladimir Malakhov D 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Vincent Damphousse C 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Turner Stevenson R 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Jassen Cullimore D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Valeri Bure R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Sebastien Bordeleau C 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Stephane Richer R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Scott Thornton L 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.23
Peter Popovic D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Chris Murray R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
David Wilkie D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Brian Savage L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Mark Recchi R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Craig Rivet D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Saku Koivu C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Darcy Tucker R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Murray Baron D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault T 34 32 2 .941 65:00 1.70

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brian Holzinger C 0 1 6 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Jason Dawe R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Donald Audette R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Ed Ronan R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Michael Peca C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Dixon Ward L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Mike Wilson D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Brad May L 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Derek Plante C 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Michal Grosek L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Shields T 45 43 2 .956 65:00 2.80