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Thursday, November 6, 1997 · Marine Midland Arena

Panthers 4 at Sabres 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 72OVR Bill Lindsay Panthers First Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 73OVR Brian Holzinger Sabres Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG G 45OVR Mark Fitzpatrick Lightning Third Star 28 SV · .933

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:36 Bill Lindsay (5) SHG Robert Svehla (5) · Backhand FLA 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 13:17 Dixon Ward (3) Brian Holzinger (5) · Backhand FLA 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 0:31 Rob Niedermayer (2) PPG Dave Gagner (6), Robert Svehla (6) · Snap FLA 2 – 1 BUF
  2. 3:15 Brian Holzinger (3) Miroslav Satan (4), Michal Grosek (6) · Tip-in FLA 2 – 2 BUF
  3. 13:02 David Nemirovsky (2) Ray Whitney (4), Kirk Muller (5) · Snap FLA 3 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 19:47 Chris Wells (2) Bill Lindsay (4), Tom Fitzgerald (3) · Slap FLA 4 – 2 BUF

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bill Lindsay L 1 1 4 0 0 +1 17:18 1.73
Robert Svehla D 0 2 0 0 1 0 24:59 1.20
Chris Wells C 1 0 4 0 1 +1 13:05 1.15
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 1 2 1 2 +1 15:07 1.03
David Nemirovsky R 1 0 3 1 0 0 13:25 1.03
Rob Niedermayer C 1 0 2 0 0 0 20:41 0.80
Ray Whitney L 0 1 2 0 0 0 13:36 0.73
Dave Gagner C 0 1 0 0 1 0 14:55 0.53
Kirk Muller L 0 1 0 2 0 +1 14:42 0.48
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 1 2 0 +1 21:15 0.22
Gord Murphy D 0 0 0 0 1 +1 27:33 0.15
Ray Sheppard R 0 0 5 0 1 -1 15:45 0.08
Johan Garpenlov L 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:32 0.00
Terry Carkner D 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:51 -0.10
Scott Mellanby R 0 0 2 1 2 0 14:42 -0.40
Paul Laus D 0 0 0 1 0 -1 13:15 -0.55
Dallas Eakins D 0 0 0 0 0 0 9:17 -0.75
Ed Jovanovski D 0 0 0 2 0 0 5:29 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mark Fitzpatrick W 30 28 2 .933 60:00 1.30

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brian Holzinger C 1 1 1 2 0 0 19:22 1.45
Miroslav Satan R 0 1 6 1 0 0 16:23 1.13
Dixon Ward L 1 0 2 0 0 0 15:12 0.85
Michal Grosek L 0 1 1 0 0 0 15:10 0.65
Jay McKee D 0 0 3 2 1 0 20:01 0.32
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 3 0 0 0 7:45 0.18
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 18:41 0.18
Michael Peca C 0 0 0 5 1 0 18:48 0.05
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 4 2 0 -1 24:43 0.05
Derek Plante C 0 0 4 0 0 -2 19:19 -0.10
Curtis Brown C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 12:35 -0.12
Jason Woolley D 0 0 1 2 0 -1 17:44 -0.13
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 0 0 1 -1 21:39 -0.20
Jason Dawe R 0 0 1 3 0 -1 18:42 -0.28
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:19 -0.35
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 12:01 -0.68
Brad May L 0 0 1 1 0 0 3:22 -1.05
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 1 0 -1 4:06 -1.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek L 24 21 3 .875 59:21 -0.15