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Monday, January 1, 2001 · HSBC Arena

Bruins 4 at Sabres 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 57OVR P.J. Axelsson Bruins First Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG R 75OVR Andrei Kovalenko Bruins Second Star 2A · 3 SOG R 88OVR J-P Dumont Sabres Third Star 2A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:37 Sergei Samsonov (15) Jason Allison (30), Bill Guerin (17) · Wrist BOS 1 – 0 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 12:04 Stu Barnes (8) J-P Dumont (15), Richard Smehlik (10) · Wrist BOS 1 – 1 BUF
  2. 16:34 Darren Van Impe (3) P.J. Axelsson (7) · Wrist BOS 2 – 1 BUF
  3. 19:18 P.J. Axelsson (3) Andrei Kovalenko (7), Joe Thornton (12) · Wrist BOS 3 – 1 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 0:44 Sergei Samsonov (16) Andrei Kovalenko (8), Kyle McLaren (2) · Slap BOS 4 – 1 BUF
  2. 11:42 Miroslav Satan (13) PPG Stu Barnes (14), Dave Andreychuk (7) · Wrist BOS 4 – 2 BUF
  3. 18:58 Dave Andreychuk (7) PPG J-P Dumont (16), Jason Woolley (8) · Wraparound BOS 4 – 3 BUF

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
P.J. Axelsson L 1 1 4 0 3 +2 17:00 1.98
Andrei Kovalenko R 0 2 3 0 0 +3 14:38 1.92
Sergei Samsonov L 2 0 2 0 0 +1 17:51 1.65
Joe Thornton C 0 1 2 2 0 +1 23:17 0.98
Kyle McLaren D 0 1 0 0 4 +2 28:17 0.93
Darren Van Impe D 1 0 1 1 2 +1 17:08 0.87
Jason Allison C 0 1 1 1 0 0 22:40 0.75
Bill Guerin R 0 1 4 1 0 -1 22:19 0.58
Hal Gill D 0 0 3 1 0 +2 19:16 0.52
Jarno Kultanen D 0 0 1 0 3 +1 11:39 0.38
Shawn Bates C 0 0 1 2 1 +1 12:53 0.28
Brian Rolston R 0 0 3 0 2 0 17:48 0.27
Patrick Traverse D 0 0 2 1 2 0 13:26 0.20
Mike Knuble R 0 0 0 1 0 +1 10:46 0.15
Eric Manlow C 0 0 0 0 0 0 3:42 0.00
Andrei Nazarov L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 4:16 0.00
Ken Belanger L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3:26 -0.15
Peter Popovic D 0 0 0 2 0 0 25:50 -0.40
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Byron Dafoe W 36 33 3 .917 60:00 1.05

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
J-P Dumont R 0 2 5 2 0 0 18:20 1.68
Stu Barnes C 1 1 4 0 0 0 20:03 1.53
Dave Andreychuk L 1 1 4 0 0 0 12:16 1.48
Miroslav Satan R 1 0 4 0 0 -1 20:52 0.75
Jason Woolley D 0 1 2 0 2 -1 23:06 0.73
Richard Smehlik D 0 1 0 1 0 0 17:47 0.63
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 1 0 3 0 18:18 0.23
Erik Rasmussen C 0 0 2 1 1 0 17:44 0.20
Denis Hamel L 0 0 3 2 1 -1 11:09 0.12
Doug Gilmour C 0 0 3 1 1 -1 20:44 0.07
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 0 0 2 -1 17:05 -0.05
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 18:22 -0.08
Vaclav Varada R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 15:10 -0.13
Maxim Afinogenov R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 19:02 -0.15
Jay McKee D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 15:35 -0.25
Vladimir Tsyplakov L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 12:30 -0.30
Chris Gratton C 0 0 2 3 0 -2 14:50 -0.30
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 1 0 -1 3:42 -2.40
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dominik Hasek L 27 23 4 .852 57:21 -0.70
Martin Biron — 0 0 0 — 0:04 0.00