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Friday, October 17, 1997 · Marine Midland Arena

Canadiens 5 at Sabres 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 90OVR Vincent Damphousse Canadiens First Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG D 96OVR Vladimir Malakhov Canadiens Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG L 82OVR Benoit Brunet Canadiens Third Star 2A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:59 Vincent Damphousse (1) Benoit Brunet (2), Valeri Bure (1) · Backhand MTL 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 8:13 Vladimir Malakhov (2) PPG Mark Recchi (2), Sebastien Bordeleau (1) · Slap MTL 2 – 0 BUF
  3. 9:12 Marc Bureau (1) Vladimir Malakhov (5), Vincent Damphousse (1) · Snap MTL 3 – 0 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 1:54 Vincent Damphousse (2) Benoit Brunet (3), Valeri Bure (2) · Backhand MTL 4 – 0 BUF
  2. 11:11 Shayne Corson (2) PPG Mark Recchi (3), Vladimir Malakhov (6) · Snap MTL 5 – 0 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 6:14 Miroslav Satan (4) PPG Michal Grosek (3), Brian Holzinger (3) · Slap MTL 5 – 1 BUF

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Vincent Damphousse C 2 1 3 0 0 +2 13:17 2.60
Vladimir Malakhov D 1 2 2 2 0 +3 21:44 2.60
Benoit Brunet L 0 2 4 1 1 +2 13:46 1.90
Valeri Bure R 0 2 3 0 1 +2 14:28 1.88
Mark Recchi R 0 2 4 1 0 0 16:28 1.60
Marc Bureau C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 12:13 1.13
Shayne Corson L 1 0 5 0 0 0 15:37 0.98
Sebastien Bordeleau C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 13:34 0.88
Saku Koivu C 0 0 5 1 0 0 15:47 0.43
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 19:03 0.30
Darcy Tucker R 0 0 2 4 0 0 16:19 0.15
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 2 0 1 +2 17:32 0.13
Scott Thornton L 0 0 1 2 0 +1 12:53 0.07
Eric Houde C 0 0 0 2 1 0 13:35 0.05
Brett Clark D 0 0 1 0 0 0 19:18 0.02
Turner Stevenson R 0 0 2 1 0 0 14:19 -0.05
Dave Manson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:50 -0.15
Craig Rivet D 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:49 -0.35
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault W 22 21 1 .955 60:00 1.35

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Miroslav Satan R 1 0 3 0 0 0 13:01 0.93
Michal Grosek L 0 1 0 0 0 0 12:18 0.53
Brian Holzinger C 0 1 0 0 0 -2 17:20 0.33
Erik Rasmussen C 0 0 4 1 0 0 10:33 0.20
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 2 2 4 -1 23:40 0.20
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 1 1 0 16:48 0.08
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 1 1 2 0 19:59 0.08
Derek Plante C 0 0 2 0 1 -1 19:37 0.05
Dixon Ward L 0 0 1 1 0 0 13:00 0.02
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 3 0 0 12:29 0.00
Brad May L 0 0 0 7 0 0 15:17 -0.10
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 2 5 0 -2 20:14 -0.15
Jason Dawe R 0 0 1 0 0 0 20:12 -0.18
Donald Audette R 0 0 3 0 1 -3 17:10 -0.22
Bob Boughner D 0 0 1 4 4 -2 16:11 -0.27
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 3 0 -1 23:08 -0.30
Randy Burridge L 0 0 1 2 1 -3 14:07 -0.32
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 5 0 0 7:21 -1.80
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek L 42 37 5 .881 60:00 -0.05