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Monday, February 2, 1998 · Ice Palace

Sabres 7 at Lightning 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 75OVR Brian Holzinger Sabres First Star 1G · 3A · 3 SOG D 97OVR Alexei Zhitnik Sabres Second Star 3A · 2 SOG R 85OVR Donald Audette Sabres Third Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:00 Richard Smehlik (2) SHG Unassisted · Slap BUF 1 – 0 TBL
  2. 6:59 Brian Holzinger (10) Miroslav Satan (14), Donald Audette (15) · Wrist BUF 2 – 0 TBL
  3. 8:33 Donald Audette (12) Brian Holzinger (13), Alexei Zhitnik (16) · Tip-in BUF 3 – 0 TBL

2nd Period

  1. 0:47 Dixon Ward (7) Richard Smehlik (13), Alexei Zhitnik (17) · Tip-in BUF 4 – 0 TBL
  2. 5:06 Rob Zamuner (14) Mikael Renberg (15), Paul Ysebaert (19) · Tip-in BUF 4 – 1 TBL
  3. 5:36 Jason Dawe (18) Dixon Ward (4), Michael Peca (12) · Tip-in BUF 5 – 1 TBL
  4. 11:47 Cory Cross (1) SHG Darcy Tucker (9), Stephane Richer (5) · Tip-in BUF 5 – 2 TBL
  5. 15:14 Mike Wilson (3) Brian Holzinger (14), Jay McKee (10) · Slap BUF 6 – 2 TBL

3rd Period

  1. 6:31 Donald Audette (13) Brian Holzinger (15), Alexei Zhitnik (18) · Wrist BUF 7 – 2 TBL
  2. 15:03 Brent Peterson (1) Jason Wiemer (5), Jason Bonsignore (3) · Tip-in BUF 7 – 3 TBL

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brian Holzinger C 1 3 3 0 0 +4 19:28 3.45
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 3 2 2 1 +4 23:47 2.68
Donald Audette R 2 1 3 0 0 +1 16:24 2.50
Richard Smehlik D 1 1 2 0 0 +6 21:31 2.43
Dixon Ward L 1 1 2 0 0 +2 14:15 1.83
Michael Peca C 0 1 3 0 0 +2 15:32 1.15
Mike Wilson D 1 0 1 0 2 +1 18:29 1.13
Jason Dawe R 1 0 3 0 0 +1 10:45 0.98
Miroslav Satan R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 12:51 0.93
Jay McKee D 0 1 1 5 1 +1 17:35 0.60
Brad May L 0 0 3 1 0 0 12:44 0.07
Michal Grosek L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 11:38 0.07
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 1 0 0 12:47 0.00
Derek Plante C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 17:22 -0.08
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 1 -1 17:40 -0.10
Rob Ray R 0 0 1 4 0 0 11:53 -0.22
Jason Woolley D 0 0 1 1 1 -3 19:42 -0.27
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 1 0 0 0 11:04 -0.98
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Shields W 38 35 3 .921 60:00 1.25

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brent Peterson L 1 0 2 1 0 0 10:43 0.90
Jason Wiemer C 0 1 2 0 0 0 11:45 0.83
Rob Zamuner L 1 0 6 0 0 -3 19:43 0.75
Cory Cross D 1 0 2 1 0 -1 17:20 0.75
Jason Bonsignore C 0 1 1 1 0 0 10:15 0.70
Mikael Renberg R 0 1 4 0 0 -1 16:27 0.63
Paul Ysebaert L 0 1 2 1 0 -1 17:15 0.48
Stephane Richer R 0 1 4 0 0 -2 21:06 0.48
Darcy Tucker R 0 1 1 1 0 -1 18:09 0.30
Karl Dykhuis D 0 0 3 0 0 0 19:05 0.27
Steve Kelly C 0 0 2 0 0 0 11:49 0.15
Jassen Cullimore D 0 0 0 0 2 0 17:20 0.05
Paul Brousseau R 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:13 0.00
Louie Debrusk L 0 0 0 0 0 0 9:25 0.00
David Wilkie D 0 0 2 2 0 -2 21:17 -0.15
Alexander Selivanov R 0 0 4 0 1 -4 21:25 -0.25
Mike McBain D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 18:04 -0.35
Bryan Marchment D 0 0 1 6 0 -1 17:36 -0.43
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Zac Bierk — 10 9 1 .900 21:05 0.15
Mark Fitzpatrick L 22 16 6 .727 38:55 -2.90