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Saturday, November 8, 1997 · Civic Arena

Sabres 2 at Penguins 2

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 98OVR Tom Barrasso Penguins First Star 36 SV · .947 G 71OVR Steve Shields Sabres Second Star 29 SV · .935 RC C 75OVR Brian Holzinger Sabres Third Star 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:20 Alex Hicks (1) Stu Barnes (7), Rob Brown (8) · Wrist BUF 0 – 1 PIT

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 8:21 Neil Wilkinson (1) PPG Eddie Olczyk (2), Ron Francis (14) · Slap BUF 0 – 2 PIT
  2. 12:09 Curtis Brown (3) Miroslav Satan (5), Brian Holzinger (6) · Wrist BUF 1 – 2 PIT
  3. 17:38 Alexei Zhitnik (2) Jason Dawe (5), Brad May (2) · Slap BUF 2 – 2 PIT

Overtime

No scoring

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brian Holzinger C 0 1 5 0 0 +1 25:57 1.15
Alexei Zhitnik D 1 0 3 1 1 +1 29:10 1.03
Brad May L 0 1 2 1 0 +1 10:52 0.93
Curtis Brown C 1 0 1 1 0 +1 22:34 0.93
Miroslav Satan R 0 1 2 1 0 +1 20:31 0.88
Jason Dawe R 0 1 1 0 0 0 19:43 0.50
Mike Wilson D 0 0 3 2 1 +1 21:17 0.43
Erik Rasmussen C 0 0 4 0 0 +1 11:06 0.30
Derek Plante C 0 0 4 0 1 0 20:22 0.25
Michal Grosek L 0 0 2 0 0 0 17:14 0.15
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 2 0 0 0 21:24 0.15
Jay McKee D 0 0 2 0 0 0 22:54 0.15
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 25:38 0.10
Dixon Ward L 0 0 2 0 1 -1 11:32 0.05
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 2 0 0 0 16:12 -0.05
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 6:32 -0.15
Bob Boughner D 0 0 1 1 0 -1 9:39 -0.50
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2:44 -0.80
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Shields T 31 29 2 .935 64:56 1.40

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rob Brown R 0 1 3 1 0 +1 20:03 1.10
Alex Hicks L 1 0 2 4 0 0 17:59 0.90
Stu Barnes C 0 1 4 0 0 0 21:10 0.73
Ron Francis C 0 1 2 0 3 -2 21:41 0.68
Eddie Olczyk R 0 1 2 0 0 -1 19:43 0.63
Neil Wilkinson D 1 0 1 4 0 0 18:16 0.50
Martin Straka C 0 0 5 0 0 0 21:23 0.43
Tuomas Gronman D 0 0 3 0 2 0 22:26 0.27
Kevin Hatcher D 0 0 2 1 4 -1 29:06 0.25
Peter Ferraro R 0 0 1 1 0 0 4:29 0.23
Jaromir Jagr R 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:45 0.13
Tyler Wright C 0 0 1 1 0 0 10:56 0.08
Aleksey Morozov R 0 0 2 0 1 -1 17:12 0.05
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 0 0 2 0 9:49 0.05
Jiri Slegr D 0 0 1 3 2 -1 29:47 0.03
Andreas Johansson L 0 0 1 0 0 0 16:57 -0.03
Chris Ferraro C 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:13 -0.15
Chris Tamer D 0 0 0 1 0 0 18:01 -0.20
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tom Barrasso T 38 36 2 .947 65:00 2.10