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Tuesday, December 23, 1997 · Marine Midland Arena

Red Wings 3 at Sabres 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 89OVR Chris Osgood Red Wings First Star 26 SV · .963 C 92OVR Steve Yzerman Red Wings Second Star 1A · 4 SOG R 73OVR Darren McCarty Red Wings Third Star 1G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:13 Darren McCarty (10) SHG Nicklas Lidstrom (16) · Wrist DET 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 19:17 Derek Plante (7) Brad May (7) · Wrist DET 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 18:12 Anders Eriksson (4) Steve Yzerman (23), Vyacheslav Kozlov (14) · Wrist DET 2 – 1 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 9:05 Kirk Maltby (3) Unassisted · Slap DET 3 – 1 BUF

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Steve Yzerman C 0 1 4 0 0 +2 18:43 1.28
Darren McCarty R 1 0 3 0 1 +1 19:07 1.03
Nicklas Lidstrom D 0 1 2 0 2 +1 26:10 1.03
Kirk Maltby L 1 0 2 2 0 0 15:28 1.00
Anders Eriksson D 1 0 3 0 0 +1 24:00 0.93
Vyacheslav Kozlov L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 14:02 0.70
Doug Brown R 0 0 3 0 1 0 13:55 0.27
Bob Rouse D 0 0 1 0 1 +1 20:36 0.23
Larry Murphy D 0 0 2 1 2 0 24:48 0.20
Joey Kocur R 0 0 1 0 0 0 9:40 0.13
Brent Gilchrist L 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:44 0.13
Martin Lapointe R 0 0 1 3 0 +1 13:06 0.12
Jamie Pushor D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 12:48 0.12
Igor Larionov C 0 0 2 0 0 0 16:11 0.05
Tomas Holmstrom L 0 0 0 1 0 0 8:02 0.05
Mike Knuble R 0 0 0 0 0 0 7:15 0.00
Brendan Shanahan L 0 0 3 1 0 0 19:27 -0.03
Yan Golubovsky D 0 0 0 0 0 0 9:32 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Chris Osgood W 27 26 1 .963 60:00 1.85

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Derek Plante C 1 0 3 0 0 0 20:48 0.88
Brad May L 0 1 1 2 0 +1 10:26 0.80
Dixon Ward L 0 0 5 0 0 0 14:34 0.33
Michael Peca C 0 0 4 2 0 0 20:06 0.25
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 2 2 1 0 21:06 0.05
Jason Dawe R 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:37 -0.03
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 15:44 -0.05
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 16:15 -0.05
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 0 1 0 +1 20:57 -0.05
Vaclav Varada R 0 0 1 1 0 -1 13:54 -0.08
Randy Burridge L 0 0 1 2 0 -1 11:29 -0.13
Donald Audette R 0 0 3 1 0 -1 17:57 -0.13
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 0 3 0 -1 11:04 -0.20
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 15:38 -0.25
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 10:07 -0.32
Jason Woolley D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 19:53 -0.35
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 3 0 1 -1 24:27 -0.38
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 1 0 -2 12:40 -0.40
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek L 30 27 3 .900 59:27 0.45