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Monday, February 28, 2000 · National Car Rental Center

Sabres 5 at Panthers 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 77OVR Stu Barnes Sabres First Star 2G · 4 SOG C 94OVR Curtis Brown Sabres Second Star 2A · 1 SOG D 47OVR Alexei Zhitnik Sabres Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 18:09 Stu Barnes (15) SHG Michael Peca (17), Alexei Zhitnik (10) · Slap BUF 1 – 0 FLA

2nd Period

  1. 4:32 Alexei Zhitnik (2) Vaclav Varada (18), Curtis Brown (21) · Snap BUF 2 – 0 FLA
  2. 5:24 Erik Rasmussen (8) Wayne Primeau (7), Jay McKee (11) · Backhand BUF 3 – 0 FLA
  3. 12:45 Stu Barnes (16) Miroslav Satan (26) · Backhand BUF 4 – 0 FLA
  4. 14:57 Pavel Bure (43) Jaroslav Spacek (21), Robert Svehla (31) · Backhand BUF 4 – 1 FLA

3rd Period

  1. 6:15 Todd Simpson (1) Scott Mellanby (21), Ray Sheppard (7) · Wrist BUF 4 – 2 FLA
  2. 8:10 Richard Smehlik (2) Curtis Brown (22), Brian Holzinger (17) · Wrist BUF 5 – 2 FLA

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Stu Barnes C 2 0 4 0 0 +2 14:39 2.00
Curtis Brown C 0 2 1 0 1 +2 14:07 1.73
Alexei Zhitnik D 1 1 3 1 2 +3 22:21 1.70
Brian Holzinger C 0 1 4 0 0 +1 16:19 1.18
Erik Rasmussen C 1 0 5 2 0 +1 15:30 1.13
Michael Peca C 0 1 2 2 2 +1 21:38 1.08
Richard Smehlik D 1 0 1 1 3 +2 23:02 1.08
Miroslav Satan R 0 1 3 0 0 +2 15:32 1.00
Jay McKee D 0 1 1 2 2 0 22:22 0.80
Vaclav Varada R 0 1 0 2 1 0 11:52 0.68
Wayne Primeau C 0 1 1 1 0 0 7:30 0.60
James Patrick D 0 0 1 0 5 +1 24:12 0.53
Dixon Ward L 0 0 2 1 1 +1 15:35 0.40
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 2 1 0 0 12:11 0.20
Vladimir Tsyplakov L 0 0 0 1 0 0 11:36 0.00
Jason Woolley D 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:06 -0.05
Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre D 0 0 1 2 1 -1 11:15 -0.08
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 2 0 -1 4:40 -1.20
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek W 32 30 2 .938 59:52 1.50

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pavel Bure R 1 0 7 0 1 -1 25:14 0.88
Todd Simpson D 1 0 4 2 3 -1 16:03 0.85
Ray Sheppard R 0 1 1 0 0 0 19:24 0.75
Robert Svehla D 0 1 3 1 0 -1 24:52 0.75
Scott Mellanby R 0 1 1 1 0 +1 10:35 0.65
Jaroslav Spacek D 0 1 1 2 1 -1 22:40 0.40
Lance Pitlick D 0 0 1 1 2 0 12:37 0.18
Ryan Johnson C 0 0 0 1 0 +1 8:54 0.15
Ray Whitney L 0 0 2 1 0 0 18:46 0.15
Paul Laus D 0 0 0 1 2 0 11:25 0.10
Peter Worrell L 0 0 3 1 0 -2 11:04 0.02
Viktor Kozlov C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 18:11 0.00
Oleg Kvasha C 0 0 2 0 3 -2 11:37 -0.05
Rob Niedermayer C 0 0 1 3 0 -1 16:51 -0.08
Cameron Stewart L 0 0 0 1 1 -1 8:54 -0.10
Mark Parrish R 0 0 2 1 0 -2 19:02 -0.15
Mike Wilson D 0 0 2 2 1 -2 19:57 -0.15
Dan Boyle D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 16:09 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Vernon — 12 11 1 .917 27:15 0.35
Trevor Kidd L 19 15 4 .789 32:15 -1.50