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Wednesday, April 15, 1998 · Continental Airlines Arena

Sabres 4 at Devils 5

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 75OVR Brian Holzinger Sabres First Star 2G · 4 SOG D 88OVR Scott Stevens Devils Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG C 90OVR Bobby Holik Devils Third Star 2A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:09 Brad Bombardir (1) Steve Thomas (10), Bobby Carpenter (9) · Slap BUF 0 – 1 NJD
  2. 3:34 Brian Holzinger (13) SHG Alexei Zhitnik (30), Michael Peca (22) · Wrist BUF 1 – 1 NJD
  3. 4:28 Randy Mckay (24) PPG Bobby Holik (34), Scott Niedermayer (43) · Snap BUF 1 – 2 NJD
  4. 13:55 Brian Holzinger (14) Donald Audette (20), Miroslav Satan (23) · Backhand BUF 2 – 2 NJD
  5. 15:20 Denis Pederson (14) Scott Daniels (2), Krzysztof Oliwa (2) · Snap BUF 2 – 3 NJD
  6. 18:50 Wayne Primeau (6) Dixon Ward (12), Vaclav Varada (6) · Wrist BUF 3 – 3 NJD

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 5:49 Darryl Shannon (3) Richard Smehlik (17), Michal Grosek (19) · Wrist BUF 4 – 3 NJD
  2. 14:24 Dave Andreychuk (14) Brendan Morrison (4), Scott Stevens (22) · Backhand BUF 4 – 4 NJD

Overtime

  1. 4:38 Scott Stevens (4) Bobby Holik (35), Doug Gilmour (39) · Slap BUF 4 – 5 NJD

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brian Holzinger C 2 0 4 0 0 +2 24:17 2.00
Darryl Shannon D 1 0 2 2 9 +1 24:58 1.55
Miroslav Satan R 0 1 3 0 0 0 20:10 0.95
Wayne Primeau C 1 0 2 1 0 +1 18:04 0.90
Donald Audette R 0 1 1 1 0 +1 20:50 0.90
Michal Grosek L 0 1 3 3 0 0 18:39 0.85
Richard Smehlik D 0 1 0 3 2 0 23:44 0.83
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 5 6 +2 24:12 0.68
Michael Peca C 0 1 0 1 0 -1 4:32 0.48
Vaclav Varada R 0 1 0 1 1 -1 17:16 0.42
Dixon Ward L 0 1 0 2 0 -1 18:57 0.32
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 1 1 1 -2 28:15 0.30
Jason Woolley D 0 0 0 1 1 0 16:36 0.05
Curtis Brown C 0 0 3 3 0 -2 18:32 0.02
Paul Kruse L 0 0 0 1 0 0 0:54 0.00
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 2 0 0 6:13 0.00
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 11:52 -0.20
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 0 2 0 0 15:37 -0.58
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Shields L 41 36 5 .878 64:36 -0.15

New Jersey Devils

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Scott Stevens D 1 1 2 3 0 +1 27:12 1.73
Bobby Holik C 0 2 5 1 0 0 17:36 1.63
Denis Pederson C 1 0 4 1 1 +1 16:55 1.30
Dave Andreychuk L 1 0 6 1 1 0 18:34 1.25
Randy Mckay R 1 0 3 5 0 +1 15:43 1.23
Brad Bombardir D 1 0 1 0 2 +2 13:03 1.23
Krzysztof Oliwa L 0 1 1 2 1 +1 7:13 0.85
Scott Daniels L 0 1 0 3 0 +1 8:16 0.73
Scott Niedermayer D 0 1 1 3 1 0 32:51 0.70
Bobby Carpenter C 0 1 2 1 1 -1 14:26 0.68
Doug Gilmour C 0 1 0 2 0 -1 22:39 0.63
Brendan Morrison C 0 1 1 1 2 -1 19:46 0.60
Steve Thomas R 0 1 2 0 0 0 17:02 0.58
Patrik Elias C 0 0 2 0 0 +1 17:13 0.35
Doug Bodger D 0 0 4 1 3 -2 17:30 0.10
Ken Daneyko D 0 0 1 1 0 +1 13:31 0.07
Jason Arnott C 0 0 3 3 0 -2 16:37 -0.38
Lyle Odelein D 0 0 3 1 0 -2 18:31 -0.65
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Dunham W 14 13 1 .929 44:32 0.55
Martin Brodeur — 6 3 3 .500 20:00 -1.95