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Friday, November 28, 1997 · Marine Midland Arena

Rangers 3 at Sabres 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 90OVR Pat LaFontaine Rangers First Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG R 86OVR Tim Sweeney Rangers Second Star 1G · 3 SOG C 74OVR Derek Plante Sabres Third Star 1G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:16 Tim Sweeney (6) Pat LaFontaine (17) · Snap NYR 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 12:48 Pat LaFontaine (15) Doug Lidster (2) · Wraparound NYR 2 – 0 BUF
  3. 17:02 Alexei Zhitnik (4) PPG Jason Woolley (6), Brian Holzinger (7) · Slap NYR 2 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 12:47 Derek Plante (5) Miroslav Satan (8), Michal Grosek (9) · Snap NYR 2 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 6:14 Wayne Gretzky (8) Niklas Sundstrom (12) · Slap NYR 3 – 2 BUF
  2. 16:39 Donald Audette (6) Darryl Shannon (11), Curtis Brown (4) · Wrist NYR 3 – 3 BUF

Overtime

No scoring

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pat LaFontaine C 1 1 1 0 0 +2 24:27 1.45
Tim Sweeney R 1 0 3 1 0 +2 20:50 1.33
Doug Lidster D 0 1 1 1 1 0 20:41 0.70
Adam Graves L 0 0 8 0 0 +2 24:20 0.60
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 1 0 0 0 0 21:46 0.58
Wayne Gretzky C 1 0 1 0 1 -1 19:33 0.48
Brian Leetch D 0 0 4 2 2 +1 33:57 0.35
Mike Keane R 0 0 5 2 1 0 23:43 0.27
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 4 1 +1 22:49 0.20
Kevin Stevens L 0 0 2 0 0 0 8:52 0.15
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 1 3 0 6:51 0.10
Alex Kovalev R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 16:38 0.02
Brian Skrudland C 0 0 0 0 1 0 14:33 0.00
Bill Berg L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2:24 -0.05
Bruce Driver D 0 0 0 0 1 0 23:03 -0.05
Mike Eastwood C 0 0 1 3 1 -1 13:46 -0.13
Ryan Vandenbussche R 0 0 0 1 0 0 3:56 -0.15
Jeff Finley D 0 0 1 0 0 0 18:41 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter T 23 20 3 .870 64:57 -0.25

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Derek Plante C 1 0 2 0 2 +1 16:09 1.05
Darryl Shannon D 0 1 5 1 1 0 22:38 0.80
Jason Woolley D 0 1 1 1 0 +1 15:52 0.75
Curtis Brown C 0 1 2 4 1 0 14:40 0.73
Brian Holzinger C 0 1 2 1 1 0 18:12 0.68
Donald Audette R 1 0 1 0 0 0 17:24 0.63
Michal Grosek L 0 1 0 1 0 0 12:27 0.48
Miroslav Satan R 0 1 1 1 0 0 13:23 0.45
Alexei Zhitnik D 1 0 2 0 1 -1 29:00 0.45
Michael Peca C 0 0 3 4 1 -1 22:33 0.18
Bob Boughner D 0 0 1 3 0 0 16:59 0.02
Brad May L 0 0 0 2 0 0 10:45 -0.05
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 1 0 1 -1 27:05 -0.13
Dixon Ward L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 20:32 -0.18
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 3 0 -1 10:36 -0.20
Jason Dawe R 0 0 1 1 0 -1 19:00 -0.23
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 18:41 -0.40
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 0 2 0 0 10:40 -0.58
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek T 30 27 3 .900 65:00 0.45