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Wednesday, March 26, 1997 · Marine Midland Arena

Islanders 3 at Sabres 2

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 82OVR Niklas Andersson Islanders First Star 1G · 3 SOG D 81OVR Alexei Zhitnik Sabres Second Star 1A · 4 SOG L 40OVR Brad May Sabres Third Star 1G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:38 Brad May (3) Rob Ray (3), Wayne Primeau (4) NYI 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 8:53 Niklas Andersson (11) Todd Bertuzzi (10), Travis Green (38) NYI 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 18:06 Dan Plante (4) Ken Belanger (1), Dennis Vaske (2) NYI 2 – 1 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 10:06 Miroslav Satan (19) Jason Dawe (25), Alexei Zhitnik (27) NYI 2 – 2 BUF

Overtime

  1. 1:00 Bryan Berard (8) Bryan McCabe (16), Bryan Smolinski (25) NYI 3 – 2 BUF

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Niklas Andersson L 1 0 3 +1 1.13
Bryan Berard D 1 0 4 0 1.05
Dan Plante R 1 0 2 0 0.90
Travis Green C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Bryan Smolinski C 0 1 4 0 0.78
Dennis Vaske D 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Todd Bertuzzi R 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Bryan McCabe D 0 1 2 +1 0.55
Ken Belanger L 0 1 0 +1 0.40
Robert Reichel C 0 0 4 0 0.30
Ziggy Palffy R 0 0 5 -1 0.23
Scott Lachance D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Brent Hughes L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Rich Pilon D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Kenny Jonsson D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Steve Webb R 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Randy Wood R 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Salo W 27 25 2 .926 61:00 1.00

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 4 +1 1.08
Brad May L 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Miroslav Satan R 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Jason Dawe R 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Wayne Primeau C 0 1 1 0 0.70
Rob Ray R 0 1 1 -1 0.40
Garry Galley D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Michal Grosek L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Michael Peca C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Dixon Ward L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Derek Plante C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Jay McKee D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Donald Audette R 0 0 4 -3 -0.15
Bob Boughner D 0 0 1 0 -0.30
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 0 0 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Shields L 28 25 3 .893 61:00 0.25