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Friday, February 21, 1997 · Marine Midland Arena

Islanders 2 at Sabres 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 99OVR Dominik Hasek Sabres First Star 34 SV · .944 C 88OVR Michael Peca Sabres Second Star 2A · 3 SOG R 83OVR Jason Dawe Sabres Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:40 Jason Dawe (19) PPG Michal Grosek (16), Derek Plante (17) NYI 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 19:46 Brian Holzinger (17) Jason Dawe (16), Michal Grosek (17) NYI 0 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 10:39 Brad May (2) Michael Peca (21) NYI 0 – 3 BUF
  2. 17:33 Bob Boughner (1) Michael Peca (22), Dixon Ward (25) NYI 0 – 4 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 1:51 Travis Green (15) PPG Bryan Berard (30), Ziggy Palffy (29) NYI 1 – 4 BUF
  2. 17:32 Claude Lapointe (6) Scott Lachance (8), Todd Bertuzzi (6) NYI 2 – 4 BUF
  3. 19:58 Garry Galley (3) SHG Unassisted NYI 2 – 5 BUF

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Claude Lapointe C 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Travis Green C 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Ziggy Palffy R 0 1 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.85
Scott Lachance D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Todd Bertuzzi R 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Derek King L 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Bryan Smolinski C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Marty Mcinnis L 0 0 6 0 0 -3 0:00 0.00
Niklas Andersson L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Kenny Jonsson D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Brent Hughes L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Doug Houda D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Bryan Berard D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.28
Steve Webb R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.53
Bryan McCabe D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.53
Paul Kruse L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -1.05
Dan Plante R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -1.05
Rich Pilon D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Eric Fichaud — 10 9 1 .900 27:19 0.15
Tommy Salo L 14 11 3 .786 30:48 -1.15

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Michael Peca C 0 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Jason Dawe R 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Garry Galley D 1 0 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.28
Michal Grosek L 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.03
Brian Holzinger C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Dixon Ward L 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Derek Plante C 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.85
Brad May L 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Bob Boughner D 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.45
Donald Audette R 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.15
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Ed Ronan R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.38
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.13
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -1.20
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 -2.03
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 36 34 2 .944 60:00 1.90