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Friday, January 2, 1998 · Marine Midland Arena

Avalanche 2 at Sabres 2

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 88OVR Craig Billington Avalanche First Star 34 SV · .944 G 99OVR Dominik Hasek Sabres Second Star 31 SV · .939 R 64OVR Jari Kurri Avalanche Third Star 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:48 Jason Dawe (15) Unassisted · Wrist COL 0 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 8:46 Derek Plante (8) PPG Richard Smehlik (10), Jay McKee (6) · Snap COL 0 – 2 BUF
  2. 12:23 Joe Sakic (18) PPG Peter Forsberg (36), Jari Kurri (9) · Snap COL 1 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 17:17 Claude Lemieux (14) Peter Forsberg (37), Jari Kurri (10) · Wrist COL 2 – 2 BUF

Overtime

No scoring

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jari Kurri R 0 2 1 1 2 0 20:36 1.38
Claude Lemieux R 1 0 4 1 0 0 19:14 0.90
Joe Sakic C 1 0 2 1 0 0 23:53 0.85
Peter Forsberg C 0 2 0 3 0 0 21:42 0.80
Eric Messier L 0 0 6 1 2 0 24:57 0.50
Uwe Krupp D 0 0 4 1 0 +1 19:02 0.30
Eric Lacroix L 0 0 3 1 1 0 15:57 0.27
Sylvain Lefebvre D 0 0 2 2 3 0 25:02 0.25
Francois Leroux D 0 0 1 1 0 0 5:34 0.08
Adam Deadmarsh R 0 0 3 2 0 0 20:37 0.02
Stephane Yelle C 0 0 1 3 0 0 17:52 0.02
Sandis Ozolinsh D 0 0 3 0 0 0 23:16 0.02
Shean Donovan R 0 0 1 2 0 0 6:51 -0.08
Adam Foote D 0 0 1 0 2 0 23:31 -0.08
Jeff Odgers R 0 0 0 0 0 0 5:58 -0.15
Rene Corbet L 0 0 1 2 0 0 13:06 -0.23
Jon Klemm D 0 0 0 1 2 -1 9:22 -0.30
Aaron Miller D 0 0 0 2 0 0 10:01 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Craig Billington T 36 34 2 .944 64:53 1.90

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jason Dawe R 1 0 3 1 1 0 19:21 0.93
Derek Plante C 1 0 3 0 0 0 21:28 0.87
Richard Smehlik D 0 1 1 2 1 0 24:32 0.65
Jay McKee D 0 1 1 0 1 0 19:52 0.60
Michal Grosek L 0 0 4 0 0 0 12:45 0.30
Donald Audette R 0 0 5 0 1 0 21:17 0.28
Dixon Ward L 0 0 0 1 2 +1 17:05 0.25
Curtis Brown C 0 0 2 2 1 0 14:51 0.25
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 2 1 0 0 7:52 0.15
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 2 1 0 0 12:16 0.00
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 2 0 0 0 13:09 0.00
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 3 0 0 14:04 0.00
Randy Burridge L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 9:30 -0.05
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 1 0 0 4:10 -0.05
Michael Peca C 0 0 2 3 0 0 24:07 -0.05
Jason Woolley D 0 0 2 2 0 0 23:04 -0.10
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 4 1 0 0 31:40 -0.30
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 4 1 0 17:25 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek T 33 31 2 .939 64:51 1.60