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Saturday, December 8, 2001 · FleetCenter

Sabres 2 at Bruins 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 93OVR Brian Rolston Bruins First Star 2G · 4 SOG C 96OVR Joe Thornton Bruins Second Star 2G · 4 SOG R 97OVR Miroslav Satan Sabres Third Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:10 Brian Rolston (13) SHG P.J. Axelsson (3) · Wrist BUF 0 – 1 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 1:12 Joe Thornton (11) Nick Boynton (4), Jarno Kultanen (1) · Wrist BUF 0 – 2 BOS
  2. 19:56 Brian Rolston (14) SHG Unassisted · Wrist BUF 0 – 3 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 1:40 Miroslav Satan (13) Vyacheslav Kozlov (5), Tim Connolly (12) · Wrist BUF 1 – 3 BOS
  2. 5:07 Joe Thornton (12) Glen Murray (10), Byron Dafoe (1) · Wrist BUF 1 – 4 BOS
  3. 12:36 Vaclav Varada (3) Stu Barnes (14), Miroslav Satan (14) · Snap BUF 2 – 4 BOS

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Miroslav Satan R 1 1 5 0 0 0 21:55 1.75
Tim Connolly C 0 1 3 2 1 +1 15:14 1.00
Vaclav Varada R 1 0 1 1 0 0 16:44 0.83
Stu Barnes C 0 1 2 1 0 0 18:59 0.83
Vyacheslav Kozlov L 0 1 1 0 0 -1 20:00 0.40
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 4 3 1 0 18:44 0.35
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 2 2 2 0 18:42 0.25
James Patrick D 0 0 2 0 0 0 16:30 0.15
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 1 1 1 0 16:57 0.13
Denis Hamel L 0 0 2 2 1 -1 12:53 0.05
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 1 0 0 17:48 0.00
Erik Rasmussen C 0 0 1 3 0 -1 14:03 -0.08
Curtis Brown C 0 0 1 1 0 -1 13:20 -0.08
J-P Dumont R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 17:26 -0.15
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 0 2 3 -2 24:46 -0.15
Chris Gratton C 0 0 1 1 0 -2 14:37 -0.28
Eric Boulton L 0 0 1 3 0 0 6:29 -0.30
Maxim Afinogenov R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 12:01 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Essensa — 6 5 1 .833 18:45 -0.25
Martin Biron L 21 18 3 .857 40:00 -0.45

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brian Rolston R 2 0 4 2 0 +2 20:59 2.10
Joe Thornton C 2 0 4 1 0 +2 17:52 2.05
P.J. Axelsson L 0 1 0 1 0 +2 18:01 0.93
Glen Murray R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 16:42 0.85
Jarno Kultanen D 0 1 1 2 0 +1 12:52 0.85
Nick Boynton D 0 1 1 3 1 0 16:23 0.75
Rob Zamuner L 0 0 3 0 0 +2 15:28 0.37
Kyle McLaren D 0 0 0 5 1 +2 22:43 0.35
Bill Guerin R 0 0 3 1 1 0 19:24 0.32
Sean O'Donnell D 0 0 0 1 1 +2 27:44 0.30
Jonathan Girard D 0 0 2 1 1 0 17:16 0.10
Scott Pellerin L 0 0 5 0 0 -2 16:27 0.08
Jamie Rivers D 0 0 1 0 0 0 4:53 0.08
Don Sweeney D 0 0 1 2 2 -1 19:31 -0.02
Jozef Stumpel L 0 0 0 0 1 -1 16:25 -0.20
Martin Lapointe R 0 0 1 2 0 -1 12:21 -0.22
John Emmons C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 6:23 -0.25
P.J. Stock C 0 0 0 2 0 0 5:11 -0.33
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Byron Dafoe W 29 27 2 .931 60:00 1.20