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Saturday, April 18, 1998 · Centre Molson

Sabres 3 at Canadiens 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 90OVR Brian Savage Canadiens First Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG L 89OVR Martin Rucinsky Canadiens Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 74OVR Derek Plante Sabres Third Star 1G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:04 Derek Plante (13) Rob Ray (4), Miroslav Satan (24) · Wrist BUF 1 – 0 MTL
  2. 6:29 Martin Rucinsky (21) Brian Savage (17), Zarley Zalapski (12) · Slap BUF 1 – 1 MTL
  3. 17:05 Brian Savage (25) PPG Martin Rucinsky (32), Vladimir Malakhov (31) · Wrist BUF 1 – 2 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 11:11 Alexei Zhitnik (15) Dixon Ward (13) · Slap BUF 2 – 2 MTL
  2. 18:48 Vaclav Varada (5) Darryl Shannon (19), Michal Grosek (20) · Wrist BUF 3 – 2 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 2:19 Brian Savage (26) PPG Vincent Damphousse (41), Mark Recchi (42) BUF 3 – 3 MTL

Overtime

No scoring

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG BLK +/- TOI GS
Derek Plante C 1 0 2 0 +1 15:49 1.05
Alexei Zhitnik D 1 0 3 0 0 22:50 0.93
Vaclav Varada R 1 0 1 0 0 10:45 0.83
Darryl Shannon D 0 1 1 0 +1 12:28 0.80
Michal Grosek L 0 1 2 0 +1 10:47 0.73
Rob Ray R 0 1 0 0 0 3:29 0.63
Dixon Ward L 0 1 0 1 0 11:18 0.58
Miroslav Satan R 0 1 1 0 0 13:20 0.45
Curtis Brown C 0 0 5 0 0 14:13 0.38
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 1 1 +1 17:07 0.28
Mike Wilson D 0 0 0 0 +1 10:34 0.15
Jason Woolley D 0 0 1 0 0 13:27 0.13
Brian Holzinger C 0 0 1 1 0 11:20 0.08
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 1 0 10:00 0.05
Donald Audette R 0 0 1 0 +1 13:49 -0.08
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 1 0 0 9:45 -0.13
Bob Boughner D 0 0 0 0 -1 6:34 -0.68
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 0 0 0 6:31 -1.23
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek T 24 21 3 .875 64:56 -0.15

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG BLK +/- TOI GS
Brian Savage L 2 1 2 0 +2 13:49 2.58
Martin Rucinsky L 1 1 4 1 +2 15:52 1.98
Zarley Zalapski D 0 1 0 2 +1 14:53 0.88
Vincent Damphousse C 0 1 0 0 +2 16:42 0.83
Mark Recchi R 0 1 3 0 0 12:48 0.70
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 1 1 0 +2 16:35 0.70
Jonas Hoglund R 0 0 2 0 0 9:11 0.10
Benoit Brunet L 0 0 1 2 0 12:52 0.08
Marc Bureau C 0 0 1 2 -1 11:50 0.08
Peter Popovic D 0 0 0 2 -1 15:02 -0.05
Sebastien Bordeleau C 0 0 3 0 -2 7:38 -0.08
Craig Rivet D 0 0 1 1 -1 12:15 -0.13
Patrick Poulin L 0 0 1 0 -1 9:30 -0.18
Eric Houde C 0 0 0 0 -2 5:11 -0.35
Dave Manson D 0 0 2 3 -1 13:49 -0.45
Mick Vukota R 0 0 2 0 -3 5:57 -0.50
Igor Ulanov D 0 0 1 2 -2 13:04 -0.73
Terry Ryan L 0 0 0 0 0 4:22 -0.80
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault T 20 17 3 .850 65:00 -0.55