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Saturday, December 15, 2001 · Madison Square Garden

Sabres 2 at Rangers 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 88OVR Mike York Oilers First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG G 76OVR Mike Richter Rangers Second Star 33 SV · .943 R 63OVR Mikael Samuelsson Rangers Third Star 2A · 4 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 14:36 Mike York (14) Sandy McCarthy (5), Vladimir Malakhov (10) · Wrist BUF 0 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 10:21 Theo Fleury (13) PPG Mark Messier (13), Mike York (21) · Wrist BUF 0 – 2 NYR
  2. 17:08 Mark Messier (6) Mikael Samuelsson (3), Andreas Johansson (3) · Wrist BUF 0 – 3 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 13:49 Vyacheslav Kozlov (7) Maxim Afinogenov (6) · Wrist BUF 1 – 3 NYR
  2. 16:09 Maxim Afinogenov (11) PPG Alexei Zhitnik (20), Stu Barnes (15) · Slap BUF 2 – 3 NYR
  3. 19:59 Jeff Toms (1) Brian Leetch (17), Mikael Samuelsson (4) · Wrist BUF 2 – 4 NYR

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Maxim Afinogenov R 1 1 5 0 0 -1 21:23 1.65
Vyacheslav Kozlov L 1 0 4 0 0 -1 21:23 0.85
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 2 4 0 -1 26:30 0.68
Stu Barnes C 0 1 2 0 1 -2 18:56 0.63
Chris Gratton C 0 0 3 0 0 0 10:51 0.22
Tim Connolly C 0 0 4 0 0 0 18:05 0.20
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 6 0 1 -2 21:10 0.20
Vaclav Varada R 0 0 2 0 0 0 13:22 0.15
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 2 1 4 -1 18:34 0.15
James Patrick D 0 0 1 0 1 0 18:18 0.13
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 2 1 0 0 17:37 0.10
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 0 3 0 16:12 0.10
Curtis Brown C 0 0 0 3 1 0 17:23 0.05
Denis Hamel L 0 0 0 0 0 0 7:55 -0.05
J-P Dumont R 0 0 2 2 0 -2 14:29 -0.25
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 0 2 0 -1 16:10 -0.25
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 3 0 0 6:53 -0.30
Eric Boulton L 0 0 0 1 0 0 7:19 -0.35
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mika Noronen L 21 18 3 .857 45:08 -0.45
Martin Biron — 5 5 0 1.000 13:53 0.50

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike York L 1 1 3 0 1 +1 18:23 1.85
Mikael Samuelsson R 0 2 4 1 0 +1 17:18 1.70
Mark Messier C 1 1 5 0 1 0 21:17 1.65
Brian Leetch D 0 1 1 4 1 +2 26:42 1.15
Andreas Johansson L 0 1 2 0 1 +1 20:28 1.13
Jeff Toms L 1 0 1 1 0 +1 6:20 1.03
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 1 0 2 1 +2 23:30 1.03
Theo Fleury R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 17:41 1.00
Sandy McCarthy R 0 1 0 2 0 +1 12:23 0.63
Dave Karpa D 0 0 1 1 2 +1 17:57 0.43
Igor Ulanov D 0 0 0 0 3 +1 19:13 0.35
Petr Nedved C 0 0 3 0 2 0 17:03 0.32
Radek Dvorak R 0 0 3 0 1 0 15:26 0.22
Steve McKenna L 0 0 0 0 0 0 5:29 0.00
Bryan Berard D 0 0 1 1 0 -1 18:02 -0.02
Manny Malhotra C 0 0 1 2 0 0 9:35 -0.08
Sylvain Lefebvre D 0 0 0 1 1 -1 14:38 -0.25
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 0 1 0 0 9:57 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 35 33 2 .943 59:37 1.80