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Friday, March 28, 1997 · Joe Louis Arena

Sabres 1 at Red Wings 2

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 79OVR Steve Shields Sabres First Star 39 SV · .951 RC C 95OVR Steve Yzerman Red Wings Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG D 84OVR Larry Murphy Red Wings Third Star 1G · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 16:23 Steve Yzerman (18) PPG Martin Lapointe (17), Nicklas Lidstrom (41) BUF 0 – 1 DET

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 14:03 Matthew Barnaby (19) Michal Grosek (20), Derek Plante (26) BUF 1 – 1 DET

Overtime

  1. 3:10 Larry Murphy (9) Sergei Fedorov (30), Steve Yzerman (62) BUF 1 – 2 DET

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Derek Plante C 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Michal Grosek L 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Matthew Barnaby R 1 0 2 +1 0.75
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 6 0 0.45
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Dixon Ward L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Brad May L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Jason Dawe R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Donald Audette R 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Garry Galley D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Michael Peca C 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Shields L 41 39 2 .951 63:10 2.40

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Steve Yzerman C 1 1 3 +1 1.75
Larry Murphy D 1 0 6 +1 1.35
Nicklas Lidstrom D 0 1 3 0 0.85
Martin Lapointe R 0 1 4 0 0.78
Sergei Fedorov C 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Brendan Shanahan L 0 0 4 0 0.30
Tomas Sandstrom R 0 0 4 0 0.30
Igor Larionov C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Mike Knuble R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Tomas Holmstrom L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Mathieu Dandenault R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Vladimir Konstantinov D 0 0 2 0 0.00
Aaron Ward D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Jamie Pushor D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Darren McCarty R 0 0 2 0 -0.15
Joey Kocur R 0 0 2 0 -0.15
Tim Taylor C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Kirk Maltby L 0 0 0 0 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Vernon W 22 21 1 .955 63:10 1.35