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Tuesday, October 16, 2001 · HSBC Arena

Predators 3 at Sabres 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 77OVR Chris Gratton Sabres First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG D 53OVR Richard Smehlik Sabres Second Star 1G · 3 SOG L 52OVR Patric Kjellberg Ducks Third Star 1G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:37 Scott Walker (1) Vitali Yachmenev (1), Kimmo Timonen (2) · Snap NSH 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 10:58 Patric Kjellberg (1) Cliff Ronning (3) · Tip-in NSH 2 – 0 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 9:46 Chris Gratton (1) Alexei Zhitnik (5) · Tip-in NSH 2 – 1 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 8:07 Marian Cisar (1) PPG Vladimir Orszagh (1), Denis Arkhipov (2) · Snap NSH 3 – 1 BUF
  2. 12:54 Vyacheslav Kozlov (4) PPG James Patrick (1), Chris Gratton (2) · Slap NSH 3 – 2 BUF
  3. 14:26 Richard Smehlik (1) Tim Connolly (3) · Slap NSH 3 – 3 BUF

Overtime

No scoring

Nashville Predators

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Patric Kjellberg L 1 0 3 0 0 +1 18:21 1.18
Marian Cisar L 1 0 5 2 1 0 15:28 0.98
Cliff Ronning C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 16:07 0.88
Scott Walker R 1 0 1 1 0 0 23:02 0.88
Kimmo Timonen D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 24:32 0.80
Denis Arkhipov C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 11:40 0.60
Vitali Yachmenev R 0 1 1 0 0 0 15:28 0.55
Vladimir Orszagh L 0 1 2 1 0 -1 8:50 0.48
Bill Houlder D 0 0 0 1 1 +1 24:49 0.20
David Legwand C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 17:01 0.12
Karlis Skrastins D 0 0 1 1 3 -1 24:20 0.08
Scott Hartnell L 0 0 1 0 0 0 16:41 0.02
Stu Grimson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:41 0.00
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 0 0 1 0 0 12:30 0.00
Mark Eaton D 0 0 1 0 1 0 21:18 -0.02
Andy Delmore D 0 0 2 1 0 0 23:50 -0.05
Greg Johnson C 0 0 1 0 0 0 21:02 -0.08
Marc Moro D 0 0 0 2 0 -1 11:55 -0.58
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tomas Vokoun T 31 28 3 .903 65:00 0.55

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Chris Gratton C 1 1 3 0 0 +1 15:39 1.75
Richard Smehlik D 1 0 3 0 0 +2 22:17 1.28
Tim Connolly C 0 1 1 1 1 +1 16:42 0.90
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 1 2 0 +1 26:47 0.65
Vyacheslav Kozlov L 1 0 3 3 0 -2 17:17 0.63
James Patrick D 0 1 0 0 2 -1 16:48 0.42
Denis Hamel L 0 0 3 4 0 +1 13:07 0.32
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 3 0 0 +2 22:59 0.27
Jason Woolley D 0 0 0 0 5 0 21:34 0.15
Stu Barnes C 0 0 2 0 1 -1 19:29 0.05
Erik Rasmussen C 0 0 1 4 0 0 12:32 0.02
J-P Dumont R 0 0 1 1 1 0 14:00 0.02
Vaclav Varada R 0 0 2 4 0 0 13:42 -0.05
Curtis Brown C 0 0 2 1 0 -1 17:19 -0.05
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 1 2 0 -1 21:10 -0.08
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 3 1 -1 19:13 -0.15
Maxim Afinogenov R 0 0 5 0 0 -2 14:49 -0.18
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 2 1 0 6:37 -0.33
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Biron T 23 20 3 .870 64:44 -0.25