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Sunday, February 1, 1998 · Miami Arena

Sabres 5 at Panthers 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 88OVR Michael Peca Sabres First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG D 98OVR Alexei Zhitnik Sabres Second Star 2A · 2 SOG R 85OVR Donald Audette Sabres Third Star 1G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:20 Donald Audette (11) Michal Grosek (16), Darryl Shannon (14) BUF 1 – 0 FLA
  2. 12:43 Jason Woolley (5) PPG Alexei Zhitnik (14), Michael Peca (11) BUF 2 – 0 FLA

2nd Period

  1. 8:40 Radek Dvorak (8) PPG Robert Svehla (26), Jeff Norton (10) BUF 2 – 1 FLA
  2. 9:17 Ray Whitney (20) Kirk Muller (14), Robert Svehla (27) BUF 2 – 2 FLA
  3. 14:27 Brian Holzinger (9) Richard Smehlik (12) BUF 3 – 2 FLA

3rd Period

  1. 1:45 Derek Plante (10) PPG Jason Dawe (13), Alexei Zhitnik (15) BUF 4 – 2 FLA
  2. 19:24 Michael Peca (11) Unassisted BUF 5 – 2 FLA

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Michael Peca C 1 1 3 0 0 +2 19:27 1.90
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 2 2 0 0 +1 25:40 1.45
Donald Audette R 1 0 4 0 0 +2 20:05 1.40
Brian Holzinger C 1 0 1 1 0 +1 17:20 1.03
Jason Dawe R 0 1 2 1 0 +1 16:30 0.93
Jason Woolley D 1 0 2 0 0 0 15:37 0.90
Darryl Shannon D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 21:33 0.85
Richard Smehlik D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 23:42 0.85
Michal Grosek L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 13:24 0.78
Derek Plante C 1 0 1 0 0 -1 13:25 0.58
Vaclav Varada R 0 0 2 1 0 0 14:52 0.25
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 12:06 0.20
Curtis Brown C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 15:25 0.15
Jay McKee D 0 0 1 1 1 0 16:47 0.13
Rob Ray R 0 0 2 0 1 -1 6:58 0.05
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 17:41 -0.05
Brad May L 0 0 2 1 0 -1 9:05 -0.10
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 3 0 0 0 12:21 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 31 29 2 .935 60:00 1.40

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Robert Svehla D 0 2 1 0 0 -1 24:05 1.23
Radek Dvorak R 1 0 3 0 0 0 15:26 0.98
Ray Whitney L 1 0 3 0 0 -1 22:00 0.88
Kirk Muller L 0 1 3 1 0 +1 19:22 0.80
Jeff Norton D 0 1 0 0 0 0 18:03 0.27
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 0 2 0 1 0 13:35 0.15
Viktor Kozlov C 0 0 4 0 0 -2 20:40 0.10
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 1 0 0 0 16:45 0.08
Scott Mellanby R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 12:30 0.00
Paul Laus D 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:38 0.00
Dave Gagner C 0 0 2 1 0 -1 19:57 -0.05
Dino Ciccarelli R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 18:38 -0.05
Bill Lindsay L 0 0 1 0 0 0 13:52 -0.08
Ray Sheppard R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 4:39 -0.08
Terry Carkner D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 17:59 -0.10
Gord Murphy D 0 0 0 0 1 -1 18:36 -0.10
Chris Wells C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 7:55 -0.15
Ed Jovanovski D 0 0 4 3 0 -1 19:37 -0.23
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Vanbiesbrouck L 28 24 4 .857 58:52 -0.60