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Tuesday, December 26, 2000 · HSBC Arena

Penguins 5 at Sabres 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 67OVR Maxim Afinogenov Sabres First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG C 87OVR Jan Hrdina Penguins Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG L 54OVR Josef Beranek Penguins Third Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:05 Vaclav Varada (6) Chris Gratton (9), Maxim Afinogenov (13) · Snap PIT 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 5:47 Josef Beranek (5) Jan Hrdina (10), Hans Jonsson (6) · Backhand PIT 1 – 1 BUF
  3. 7:39 Maxim Afinogenov (7) Vladimir Tsyplakov (3), Jay McKee (3) · Snap PIT 1 – 2 BUF
  4. 10:35 Vladimir Tsyplakov (4) Richard Smehlik (7), Maxim Afinogenov (14) · Wrist PIT 1 – 3 BUF
  5. 17:51 Robert Lang (12) Alex Kovalev (21), Janne Laukkanen (6) · Wrist PIT 2 – 3 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 2:09 Martin Straka (12) PPG Josef Beranek (8), Jan Hrdina (11) · Wrist PIT 3 – 3 BUF
  2. 15:53 Alex Kovalev (18) Robert Lang (24), Martin Straka (21) · Wrist PIT 4 – 3 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 2:21 Jan Hrdina (8) Jaromir Jagr (18), Jeff Norton (5) · Wrist PIT 5 – 3 BUF

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jan Hrdina C 1 2 2 0 0 +2 18:20 2.15
Josef Beranek L 1 1 6 0 1 +2 19:41 2.13
Martin Straka C 1 1 3 0 1 +2 22:09 1.95
Robert Lang C 1 1 1 0 2 +1 21:56 1.75
Alex Kovalev R 1 1 3 0 0 0 27:22 1.55
Jaromir Jagr R 0 1 5 0 0 +1 18:29 1.05
Jeff Norton D 0 1 2 0 2 +2 19:23 0.98
Hans Jonsson D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 20:12 0.70
Janne Laukkanen D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 19:24 0.45
Toby Petersen C 0 0 3 0 0 0 9:51 0.22
Milan Kraft C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 14:23 0.12
Jiri Slegr D 0 0 1 1 0 +1 16:57 0.12
Michal Rozsival D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ian Moran D 0 0 2 1 0 -1 19:02 -0.05
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 1 1 2 0 17:16 -0.13
Roman Simicek C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 4:30 -0.30
Kip Miller C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 2:50 -0.30
Aleksey Morozov R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 13:05 -0.35
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Garth Snow W 24 21 3 .875 59:44 -0.15

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Maxim Afinogenov R 1 2 3 0 0 +2 17:38 2.18
Vladimir Tsyplakov L 1 1 2 0 0 0 10:49 1.53
Vaclav Varada R 1 0 2 1 0 0 15:19 0.85
Chris Gratton C 0 1 1 0 0 +2 17:27 0.85
Jay McKee D 0 1 0 2 1 0 17:38 0.73
Richard Smehlik D 0 1 0 0 1 -1 14:30 0.53
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 2 0 3 0 25:35 0.25
Stu Barnes C 0 0 4 0 0 -1 18:36 0.15
Jason Woolley D 0 0 1 1 0 0 20:14 0.02
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 2 5 0 0 19:30 0.00
Erik Rasmussen C 0 0 1 2 0 -1 11:54 -0.08
J-P Dumont R 0 0 3 1 0 -1 17:24 -0.08
Doug Gilmour C 0 0 0 1 1 0 17:49 -0.10
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 2 0 1 -1 21:31 -0.10
Dave Andreychuk L 0 0 0 0 1 -1 7:27 -0.15
Denis Hamel L 0 0 0 2 0 -1 10:00 -0.15
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 6:11 -0.20
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 1 2 0 -1 20:26 -0.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek — 16 13 3 .812 22:07 -0.95
Martin Biron L 18 16 2 .889 37:32 0.10