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Saturday, November 22, 1997 · Marine Midland Arena

Islanders 1 at Sabres 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 98OVR Alexei Zhitnik Sabres First Star 3A · 3 SOG G 99OVR Dominik Hasek Sabres Second Star 28 SV · .966 C 88OVR Michael Peca Sabres Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 11:26 Jason Dawe (12) PPG Michael Peca (4), Alexei Zhitnik (5) NYI 0 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 6:12 Robert Reichel (9) Bryan McCabe (2), Ziggy Palffy (12) NYI 1 – 1 BUF
  2. 8:16 Jason Dawe (13) Miroslav Satan (7) NYI 1 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 1:18 Donald Audette (3) PPG Jason Woolley (3), Alexei Zhitnik (6) NYI 1 – 3 BUF
  2. 8:38 Michael Peca (3) SHG Randy Burridge (2) NYI 1 – 4 BUF
  3. 11:06 Donald Audette (4) PPG Jason Woolley (4) NYI 1 – 5 BUF
  4. 16:08 Randy Burridge (2) Alexei Zhitnik (7), Erik Rasmussen (3) · Wrist NYI 1 – 6 BUF

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Robert Reichel C 1 0 3 0 0 0 19:34 0.93
Bryan McCabe D 0 1 4 0 0 +1 25:08 0.72
Ziggy Palffy R 0 1 2 0 0 0 19:39 0.58
Scott Lachance D 0 0 3 1 1 -1 25:51 0.22
Vladimir Orszagh L 0 0 2 1 0 0 11:55 0.15
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 2 1 0 0 18:47 0.10
Mike Hough L 0 0 0 1 0 0 15:18 0.10
Tom Chorske R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 14:56 0.07
Zdeno Chara D 0 0 1 3 0 +1 8:07 0.07
Jason Holland D 0 0 1 1 0 -1 14:25 -0.13
Travis Green C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 18:19 -0.15
Doug Houda D 0 0 0 3 1 -1 18:16 -0.15
Bryan Smolinski C 0 0 2 0 1 -1 19:58 -0.20
Kenny Jonsson D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 24:13 -0.22
Paul Kruse L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 9:15 -0.23
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 1 1 1 -1 16:24 -0.32
Steve Webb R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2:19 -0.38
Todd Bertuzzi R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 8:05 -0.43
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Salo L 33 27 6 .818 60:00 -1.80

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 3 3 0 0 +2 23:50 2.30
Michael Peca C 1 1 4 0 2 +1 18:27 1.88
Jason Dawe R 2 0 5 0 0 +1 18:55 1.83
Donald Audette R 2 0 5 0 0 0 20:48 1.83
Randy Burridge L 1 1 2 0 0 +2 13:44 1.78
Jason Woolley D 0 2 1 0 0 -1 16:18 1.03
Erik Rasmussen C 0 1 1 1 0 +1 12:19 0.85
Miroslav Satan R 0 1 1 2 0 0 14:25 0.70
Mike Wilson D 0 0 2 0 3 +1 22:05 0.40
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 4 1 1 0 20:10 0.30
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 5 1 +1 14:44 0.25
Derek Plante C 0 0 2 0 0 0 19:07 0.15
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 1 1 1 +1 23:09 0.03
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 2 0 0 10:07 -0.05
Brad May L 0 0 1 1 0 0 14:27 -0.13
Michal Grosek L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 7:41 -0.15
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 2 1 0 7:23 -0.48
Dixon Ward L 0 0 1 2 0 -1 10:16 -0.58
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 29 28 1 .966 60:00 2.05