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Saturday, January 10, 1998 · San Jose Arena

Sabres 2 at Sharks 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 80OVR John MacLean Sharks First Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG C 70OVR Bernie Nicholls Sharks Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG L 78OVR Murray Craven Sharks Third Star 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:12 Mike Ricci (3) PPG Jeff Friesen (12), Todd Gill (7) · Slap BUF 0 – 1 SJS
  2. 19:23 Patrick Marleau (8) Owen Nolan (19), Marty McSorley (6) · Backhand BUF 0 – 2 SJS

2nd Period

  1. 7:34 Andrei Zyuzin (2) Murray Craven (8), Bernie Nicholls (11) · Backhand BUF 0 – 3 SJS
  2. 10:52 Michal Grosek (6) Curtis Brown (5), Matthew Barnaby (8) · Wrist BUF 1 – 3 SJS
  3. 15:56 John MacLean (7) PPG Bill Houlder (14) · Slap BUF 1 – 4 SJS

3rd Period

  1. 10:20 Bernie Nicholls (2) John MacLean (12), Murray Craven (9) · Wrist BUF 1 – 5 SJS
  2. 19:22 Randy Burridge (4) Jason Dawe (11), Michael Peca (7) · Wrist BUF 2 – 5 SJS

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Randy Burridge L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 9:08 1.05
Michael Peca C 0 1 1 0 0 0 18:27 0.65
Jason Dawe R 0 1 0 0 0 0 12:59 0.63
Curtis Brown C 0 1 2 0 0 0 15:57 0.63
Michal Grosek L 1 0 1 0 0 -1 15:45 0.53
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 1 0 1 +1 22:17 0.28
Jay McKee D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 21:17 0.22
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 2 0 1 0 16:01 0.20
Donald Audette R 0 0 2 0 0 0 16:52 0.15
Jason Woolley D 0 0 2 1 0 0 17:36 0.15
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:37 0.00
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 2 2 0 -1 20:39 0.00
Derek Plante C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 17:42 -0.08
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 16:43 -0.15
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 1 1 0 -2 21:28 -0.22
Dixon Ward L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 15:37 -0.35
Matthew Barnaby R 0 1 0 0 0 0 12:41 -0.65
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 0 5:38 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek L 42 37 5 .881 59:55 -0.05

San Jose Sharks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
John MacLean R 1 1 6 0 0 +1 18:28 1.98
Bernie Nicholls C 1 1 2 0 1 +1 14:52 1.73
Murray Craven L 0 2 3 0 0 +1 14:40 1.63
Patrick Marleau C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 17:16 1.05
Owen Nolan R 0 1 3 2 0 +1 18:08 1.00
Andrei Zyuzin D 1 0 5 1 0 0 19:51 0.98
Jeff Friesen L 0 1 4 0 0 0 17:13 0.93
Mike Ricci C 1 0 1 1 0 0 16:31 0.88
Bill Houlder D 0 1 3 0 0 0 21:53 0.85
Todd Gill D 0 1 0 0 0 0 21:02 0.63
Marty McSorley D 0 1 0 0 1 +2 14:12 0.60
Marco Sturm L 0 0 6 0 0 -1 13:07 0.35
Stephane Matteau L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 14:27 0.22
Tony Granato R 0 0 2 0 0 0 12:24 0.15
Ron Sutter C 0 0 2 1 0 -1 10:45 0.10
Mike Rathje D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 19:30 0.10
Marcus Ragnarsson D 0 0 2 0 1 -1 23:28 0.00
Andrei Nazarov L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 9:44 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Vernon W 18 16 2 .889 59:55 0.10