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Friday, March 6, 1998 · Marine Midland Arena

Islanders 4 at Sabres 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 77OVR Trevor Linden Islanders First Star 2G · 3 SOG · 5 HIT R 97OVR Ziggy Palffy Islanders Second Star 2A · 4 SOG C 88OVR Robert Reichel Islanders Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:29 Michal Grosek (8) Matthew Barnaby (13), Alexei Zhitnik (20) · Snap NYI 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 18:57 Trevor Linden (9) Ziggy Palffy (28) · Snap NYI 1 – 1 BUF
  3. 19:33 Trevor Linden (10) PPG Ziggy Palffy (29), Robert Reichel (33) · Snap NYI 2 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 12:26 Robert Reichel (23) PPG Bryan Berard (23), Kenny Jonsson (19) · Backhand NYI 3 – 1 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 8:23 Tom Chorske (9) SHG Unassisted · Snap NYI 4 – 1 BUF
  2. 19:44 Rob Ray (2) PPG Matthew Barnaby (14), Jay McKee (12) · Tip-in NYI 4 – 2 BUF

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Trevor Linden C 2 0 3 5 0 +1 20:44 2.03
Ziggy Palffy R 0 2 4 0 0 +1 17:25 1.75
Robert Reichel C 1 1 2 0 0 0 11:45 1.53
Tom Chorske R 1 0 2 1 3 +2 19:06 1.30
Kenny Jonsson D 0 1 0 0 2 +1 22:25 0.83
J.J. Daigneault D 0 0 2 1 2 +1 25:43 0.40
Bryan Berard D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 16:38 0.38
Rich Pilon D 0 0 1 2 3 +1 19:20 0.33
Mariusz Czerkawski R 0 0 3 0 0 0 8:49 0.22
Joe Sacco L 0 0 1 1 1 +1 19:07 0.18
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 2 2 1 0 14:12 0.05
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:36 0.00
Scott Lachance D 0 0 0 0 0 0 26:48 -0.15
Jason Strudwick D 0 0 0 1 0 0 9:09 -0.15
Bryan Smolinski C 0 0 0 0 1 -1 12:37 -0.20
Paul Kruse L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 3:15 -0.38
Steve Webb R 0 0 0 3 0 -1 6:33 -0.58
Mark Janssens C 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:44 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Salo W 30 28 2 .933 60:00 1.30

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Matthew Barnaby R 0 2 2 1 0 +1 16:17 1.40
Michal Grosek L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 16:05 0.90
Jay McKee D 0 1 2 0 1 -1 23:08 0.68
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 2 0 2 0 24:23 0.52
Rob Ray R 1 0 1 1 0 0 6:04 0.45
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 5 0 0 0 21:37 0.33
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 3 0 0 0 19:35 0.22
Dixon Ward L 0 0 4 1 0 -1 8:41 0.15
Curtis Brown C 0 0 2 0 0 0 14:48 0.15
Erik Rasmussen C 0 0 0 1 1 0 8:41 0.00
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 0 1 +1 14:44 0.00
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 0 2 3 0 20:25 0.00
Michael Peca C 0 0 3 2 0 -2 15:08 -0.03
Donald Audette R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 20:38 -0.05
Jason Woolley D 0 0 0 1 1 -1 21:17 -0.20
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 2 +1 11:35 -0.33
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 0 2 -1 18:21 -0.40
Jason Dawe R 0 0 2 1 0 -2 12:09 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek L 22 18 4 .818 60:00 -1.20