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Sunday, April 13, 1997 · Marine Midland Arena

Capitals 8 at Sabres 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 87OVR Jaroslav Svejkovsky Capitals First Star 4G · 6 SOG RC R 97OVR Peter Bondra Capitals Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG D 94OVR Sylvain Cote Capitals Third Star 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:37 Michael Peca (20) SHG Unassisted WSH 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 13:44 Peter Bondra (46) Phil Housley (29), Sylvain Cote (17) WSH 1 – 1 BUF
  3. 16:37 Andrei Nikolishin (9) PPG Sylvain Cote (18) WSH 2 – 1 BUF
  4. 17:22 Jaroslav Svejkovsky (4) Joe Reekie (8) WSH 3 – 1 BUF
  5. 18:14 Jaroslav Svejkovsky (5) Brendan Witt (2), Andrew Brunette (6) WSH 4 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 5:48 Ken Klee (3) Craig Berube (3), Dale Hunter (32) WSH 5 – 1 BUF
  2. 9:15 Wayne Primeau (2) PPG Michal Grosek (21), Brad May (4) WSH 5 – 2 BUF
  3. 10:33 Dixon Ward (13) Michael Peca (29), Jason Dawe (26) WSH 5 – 3 BUF
  4. 19:59 Phil Housley (11) Peter Bondra (31), Andrei Nikolishin (19) WSH 6 – 3 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 12:18 Jaroslav Svejkovsky (6) Kevin Kaminski (1) WSH 7 – 3 BUF
  2. 16:14 Jaroslav Svejkovsky (7) PPG Andrew Brunette (7), Kevin Kaminski (2) WSH 8 – 3 BUF

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jaroslav Svejkovsky R 4 0 6 0 0 +2 0:00 3.75
Peter Bondra R 1 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.98
Sylvain Cote D 0 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.92
Andrew Brunette L 0 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.78
Phil Housley D 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Kevin Kaminski C 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.48
Andrei Nikolishin C 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.45
Joe Reekie D 0 1 1 0 0 +5 0:00 1.15
Ken Klee D 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Dale Hunter C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Brendan Witt D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Calle Johansson D 0 0 3 0 0 +3 0:00 0.68
Craig Berube L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.48
Todd Krygier L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Mike Eagles L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Olie Kolzig W 24 21 3 .875 60:00 -0.15

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Michael Peca C 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Dixon Ward L 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Wayne Primeau C 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Jason Dawe R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Michal Grosek L 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Brad May L 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.18
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Randy Burridge L 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Derek Plante C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Garry Galley D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Donald Audette R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Bob Boughner D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Shields L 38 30 8 .789 60:00 -3.00