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Thursday, March 19, 1998 · Marine Midland Arena

Panthers 1 at Sabres 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 88OVR Michael Peca Sabres First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG G 99OVR Dominik Hasek Sabres Second Star 31 SV · .969 D 97OVR Alexei Zhitnik Sabres Third Star 2G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:28 Michael Peca (16) SHG Unassisted · Backhand FLA 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 17:03 Donald Audette (18) PPG Wayne Primeau (4), Jason Woolley (21) · Wrist FLA 0 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 2:39 Alexei Zhitnik (11) SHG Dixon Ward (6), Michael Peca (18) · Slap FLA 0 – 3 BUF
  2. 8:52 Alexei Zhitnik (12) SHG Brian Holzinger (16), Curtis Brown (10) · Snap FLA 0 – 4 BUF
  3. 16:29 Viktor Kozlov (11) Dino Ciccarelli (8) · Slap FLA 1 – 4 BUF
  4. 16:36 Dixon Ward (9) Michael Peca (19) · Wrist FLA 1 – 5 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 7:35 Derek Plante (11) Miroslav Satan (20), Bob Boughner (3) · Tip-in FLA 1 – 6 BUF

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Viktor Kozlov C 1 0 2 0 1 -1 16:22 0.75
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 0 5 1 1 0 16:39 0.43
Dino Ciccarelli R 0 1 0 0 0 -1 14:33 0.23
Radek Dvorak R 0 0 2 0 1 0 15:42 0.20
Bill Lindsay L 0 0 2 0 0 0 11:49 0.15
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 0 1 2 0 19:05 0.15
Ryan Johnson C 0 0 2 1 0 0 14:49 0.10
Gord Murphy D 0 0 0 0 2 0 20:40 0.10
Terry Carkner D 0 0 0 0 1 0 16:12 0.00
Steve Washburn C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 11:26 -0.08
Scott Mellanby R 0 0 4 0 0 -3 13:25 -0.15
Ray Sheppard R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 13:16 -0.20
Ed Jovanovski D 0 0 4 0 1 -1 17:38 -0.23
Ray Whitney L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 17:51 -0.28
Robert Svehla D 0 0 2 1 2 -3 21:11 -0.30
Jeff Norton D 0 0 1 0 2 -2 22:18 -0.48
Dave Gagner C 0 0 1 1 0 -3 15:06 -0.63
Peter Worrell L 0 0 3 2 0 -1 11:30 -0.70
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kevin Weekes L 23 18 5 .783 44:29 -1.95
John Vanbiesbrouck — 3 2 1 .667 15:30 -0.55

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Michael Peca C 1 2 3 1 0 +3 15:19 2.68
Alexei Zhitnik D 2 0 2 1 2 +3 25:09 2.15
Dixon Ward L 1 1 1 1 0 +3 10:58 1.90
Miroslav Satan R 0 1 5 0 0 0 13:06 1.00
Darryl Shannon D 0 0 2 0 5 +3 21:10 0.95
Brian Holzinger C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 17:05 0.93
Derek Plante C 1 0 3 0 1 0 14:23 0.93
Curtis Brown C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 11:10 0.85
Donald Audette R 1 0 2 0 0 0 16:29 0.80
Jason Woolley D 0 1 1 1 2 +1 19:35 0.80
Bob Boughner D 0 1 1 0 2 +2 16:46 0.75
Wayne Primeau C 0 1 0 1 0 0 13:53 0.30
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 0 4 0 18:41 0.20
Jason Dawe R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 18:35 0.15
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:07 0.02
Michal Grosek L 0 0 1 0 1 0 15:45 -0.02
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 1 0 1 -1 17:44 -0.38
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:01 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 32 31 1 .969 60:00 2.35