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Saturday, November 1, 1997 · Miami Arena

Sabres 4 at Panthers 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 85OVR Jason Dawe Islanders First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG C 88OVR Michael Peca Sabres Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG C 78OVR Dave Gagner Panthers Third Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:22 Dave Gagner (6) Robert Svehla (4) BUF 0 – 1 FLA
  2. 12:07 Scott Mellanby (5) PPG Dave Gagner (5), Esa Tikkanen (6) BUF 0 – 2 FLA

2nd Period

  1. 4:25 Jason Dawe (8) SHG Michael Peca (3) BUF 1 – 2 FLA
  2. 12:10 Miroslav Satan (7) PPG Curtis Brown (3), Derek Plante (7) BUF 2 – 2 FLA

3rd Period

  1. 6:07 Tom Fitzgerald (3) Bill Lindsay (3) BUF 2 – 3 FLA
  2. 15:02 Michael Peca (1) PPG Jason Dawe (4) BUF 3 – 3 FLA

Overtime

  1. 1:14 Dixon Ward (2) Unassisted BUF 4 – 3 FLA

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jason Dawe R 1 1 3 0 0 +2 19:50 1.90
Michael Peca C 1 1 1 1 0 +2 22:27 1.75
Dixon Ward L 1 0 3 0 0 +1 14:58 1.18
Derek Plante C 0 1 2 0 0 0 17:19 0.73
Curtis Brown C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 14:30 0.63
Miroslav Satan R 1 0 2 0 0 -2 17:37 0.60
Randy Burridge L 0 0 4 0 0 0 10:58 0.30
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 4 0 0 -1 19:37 0.15
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 22:37 0.15
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 1 0 +1 20:17 0.07
Jason Woolley D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 18:15 0.07
Erik Rasmussen C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 7:56 -0.08
Brad May L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 8:55 -0.08
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 3 1 0 0 13:40 -0.08
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 1 1 -1 18:43 -0.10
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:11 -0.15
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 0 1 0 0 23:37 -0.30
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 1 0 0 4:05 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 23 20 3 .870 61:14 -0.25

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dave Gagner C 1 1 1 0 0 +1 15:17 1.60
Tom Fitzgerald R 1 0 2 1 0 +1 14:11 1.05
Bill Lindsay L 0 1 2 2 0 +1 14:26 0.98
Robert Svehla D 0 1 2 3 0 +1 25:52 0.78
Esa Tikkanen L 0 1 2 0 0 0 16:17 0.58
Gord Murphy D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 25:20 0.32
Ray Sheppard R 0 0 2 0 0 +1 14:40 0.25
Dave Lowry L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 13:01 0.15
Kirk Muller L 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:26 0.08
Chris Wells C 0 0 1 0 0 0 8:44 0.08
Scott Mellanby R 1 0 4 0 0 -2 20:24 0.05
Jody Hull R 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:58 0.00
Rob Niedermayer C 0 0 2 1 0 -2 18:18 -0.15
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 0 2 0 -1 18:48 -0.15
Johan Garpenlov L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 18:44 -0.20
Terry Carkner D 0 0 0 2 0 -1 18:09 -0.30
Ed Jovanovski D 0 0 0 3 0 0 15:55 -0.40
Paul Laus D 0 0 1 0 0 0 13:44 -0.83
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kevin Weekes — 14 12 2 .857 32:10 -0.30
Mark Fitzpatrick L 16 14 2 .875 29:04 -0.10