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Tuesday, March 18, 1997 · Civic Arena

Sabres 3 at Penguins 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 65OVR Greg Johnson Penguins First Star 2G · 5 SOG D 98OVR Kevin Hatcher Penguins Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG R 72OVR Joe Mullen Penguins Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 0:42 Kevin Hatcher (13) PPG Joe Mullen (13), Petr Nedved (33) BUF 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 5:39 Greg Johnson (10) Unassisted BUF 0 – 2 PIT
  3. 13:28 Michael Peca (18) PPG Donald Audette (19), Jason Dawe (23) BUF 1 – 2 PIT
  4. 18:12 Michal Grosek (15) Jason Dawe (24) BUF 2 – 2 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 1:30 Greg Johnson (11) Joe Mullen (14) BUF 2 – 3 PIT
  2. 10:16 Joe Dziedzic (8) Alex Hicks (17), Jeffrey Christian (1) BUF 2 – 4 PIT
  3. 12:18 Matthew Barnaby (18) Richard Smehlik (17), Derek Plante (24) BUF 3 – 4 PIT
  4. 19:52 Ian Moran (2) Kevin Hatcher (33) BUF 3 – 5 PIT

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jason Dawe R 0 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.33
Michal Grosek L 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Richard Smehlik D 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Matthew Barnaby R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Derek Plante C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Michael Peca C 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 6 0 0 +1 0:00 0.60
Donald Audette R 0 1 3 0 0 -3 0:00 0.40
Ed Ronan R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jay McKee D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Brad May L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Dixon Ward L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Garry Galley D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.52
Bob Boughner D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Shields L 32 28 4 .875 59:27 -0.20

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Greg Johnson C 2 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.18
Kevin Hatcher D 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Joe Mullen R 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.55
Joe Dziedzic L 1 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.13
Ian Moran D 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Alex Hicks L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Jeffrey Christian L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Petr Nedved C 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Stu Barnes C 0 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 0.60
Fredrik Olausson D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Craig Muni D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Francois Leroux D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Neil Wilkinson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Ron Francis C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dave Roche L 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jason Woolley D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Chris Tamer D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Wregget — 16 14 2 .875 40:00 -0.10
Patrick Lalime W 10 9 1 .900 20:00 0.15