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Friday, April 3, 1998 · Marine Midland Arena

Bruins 4 at Sabres 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 79OVR Vaclav Varada Sabres First Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG RC D 72OVR Grant Ledyard Bruins Second Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG C 77OVR Curtis Brown Sabres Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:34 Curtis Brown (9) Michael Peca (20), Vaclav Varada (4) · Slap BOS 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 18:45 Grant Ledyard (3) Anson Carter (25), Steve Heinze (17) · Snap BOS 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 0:52 Grant Ledyard (4) PPG Ray Bourque (31), Steve Heinze (18) · Tip-in BOS 2 – 1 BUF
  2. 7:00 Brian Holzinger (12) Miroslav Satan (22) · Wrist BOS 2 – 2 BUF
  3. 7:47 Matthew Barnaby (4) Geoff Sanderson (18), Alexei Zhitnik (27) · Wrist BOS 2 – 3 BUF
  4. 8:08 Vaclav Varada (2) Darryl Shannon (18) · Tip-in BOS 2 – 4 BUF
  5. 8:39 Jason Allison (31) Sergei Samsonov (25) · Tip-in BOS 3 – 4 BUF
  6. 13:18 Vaclav Varada (3) Alexei Zhitnik (28), Curtis Brown (11) · Snap BOS 3 – 5 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 7:10 Sergei Samsonov (18) PPG Grant Ledyard (16), Landon Wilson (4) · Tip-in BOS 4 – 5 BUF

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Grant Ledyard D 2 1 2 0 1 -1 21:48 2.18
Steve Heinze R 0 2 4 0 0 0 15:02 1.65
Sergei Samsonov L 1 1 5 0 0 -2 16:31 1.50
Landon Wilson R 0 1 1 0 0 0 7:25 0.70
Anson Carter R 0 1 0 0 0 0 15:40 0.63
Ray Bourque D 0 1 2 0 1 -1 16:11 0.53
Mike Sullivan C 0 0 4 0 0 0 10:34 0.05
Darren Van Impe D 0 0 1 0 1 0 21:15 0.02
Hal Gill D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 18:09 -0.02
Tim Taylor C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 17:18 -0.03
Ted Donato L 0 0 0 0 1 0 17:35 -0.10
Dave Ellett D 0 0 1 0 2 -1 22:02 -0.22
Rob DiMaio R 0 0 0 0 1 -1 15:49 -0.25
Dmitri Khristich R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 18:29 -0.32
Jason Allison C 1 0 1 0 0 -2 14:52 -0.48
Dean Malkoc D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 4:28 -0.68
Ken Baumgartner L 0 0 0 1 0 0 4:06 -0.75
P.J. Axelsson L 0 0 2 1 0 -1 12:00 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Byron Dafoe L 25 20 5 .800 59:24 -1.75

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Vaclav Varada R 2 1 2 3 0 +1 12:36 2.38
Curtis Brown C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 17:58 1.83
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 2 1 1 0 +3 25:42 1.58
Michael Peca C 0 1 2 1 1 +2 21:36 1.08
Miroslav Satan R 0 1 3 0 0 +1 16:06 0.90
Brian Holzinger C 1 0 1 0 1 0 16:02 0.83
Geoff Sanderson L 0 1 3 0 0 +1 18:35 0.75
Matthew Barnaby R 1 0 1 2 0 0 15:15 0.58
Darryl Shannon D 0 1 0 0 1 -1 22:50 0.48
Jason Woolley D 0 0 3 0 1 +1 20:53 0.38
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 1 2 0 +3 19:48 0.18
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 2 0 0 0 7:50 0.10
Donald Audette R 0 0 3 0 0 +1 16:18 0.08
Derek Plante C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 19:26 0.02
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 18:31 -0.05
Paul Kruse L 0 0 0 2 0 0 4:08 -0.43
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 1 0 0 3:30 -0.43
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 1 0 0 12:24 -0.43
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 26 22 4 .846 60:00 -0.80