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Thursday, January 17, 2002 · STAPLES Center

Sabres 2 at Kings 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 97OVR Ziggy Palffy Kings First Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG D 60OVR Dmitri Kalinin Sabres Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG C 70OVR Bryan Smolinski Kings Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:19 Dmitri Kalinin (2) Miroslav Satan (21), Erik Rasmussen (7) · Backhand BUF 1 – 0 LAK
  2. 5:58 Brad Chartrand (3) Mikko Eloranta (5), Philippe Boucher (19) · Wrist BUF 1 – 1 LAK
  3. 9:36 Curtis Brown (10) Taylor Pyatt (4), Dmitri Kalinin (5) · Backhand BUF 2 – 1 LAK

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 6:09 Ziggy Palffy (11) Unassisted · Slap BUF 2 – 2 LAK
  2. 18:44 Adam Deadmarsh (16) Bryan Smolinski (15), Jaroslav Modry (25) · Backhand BUF 2 – 3 LAK
  3. 19:13 Bryan Smolinski (12) Ziggy Palffy (11) · Wrist BUF 2 – 4 LAK

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dmitri Kalinin D 1 1 3 2 2 +1 14:37 1.75
Erik Rasmussen C 0 1 2 3 1 +1 14:09 0.78
Curtis Brown C 1 0 2 0 0 -1 17:10 0.75
Taylor Pyatt L 0 1 0 2 0 0 11:56 0.63
Miroslav Satan R 0 1 2 0 1 0 18:02 0.48
Tim Connolly C 0 0 5 1 0 0 17:29 0.38
Jay McKee D 0 0 2 3 1 0 21:46 0.20
Jason Woolley D 0 0 1 1 0 +1 19:33 0.18
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 1 0 0 4:25 0.00
Maxim Afinogenov R 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:52 0.00
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 0 1 0 0 22:34 0.00
Denis Hamel L 0 0 1 1 0 0 10:51 -0.03
J-P Dumont R 0 0 1 1 1 -2 14:38 -0.12
Stu Barnes C 0 0 3 2 0 -2 18:27 -0.13
Chris Gratton C 0 0 0 1 0 -1 11:15 -0.15
Vaclav Varada R 0 0 1 2 0 -2 15:29 -0.22
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 0 3 2 -3 17:36 -0.40
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 0 5 0 -3 23:41 -0.95
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Essensa L 18 15 3 .833 59:17 -0.75

Los Angeles Kings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ziggy Palffy R 1 1 2 0 0 +2 20:59 1.88
Bryan Smolinski C 1 1 2 1 0 +2 18:51 1.53
Adam Deadmarsh R 1 0 3 2 3 +2 18:46 1.43
Brad Chartrand R 1 0 1 1 1 +1 11:12 1.03
Jaroslav Modry D 0 1 1 1 0 +1 18:48 0.90
Mikko Eloranta L 0 1 2 0 1 +1 11:11 0.83
Philippe Boucher D 0 1 3 3 0 0 13:11 0.80
Mattias Norstrom D 0 0 0 1 3 +3 27:12 0.70
Ian Laperriere R 0 0 0 1 0 +1 14:32 0.20
Aaron Miller D 0 0 0 3 2 +1 26:13 0.20
Nelson Emerson R 0 0 2 1 0 0 4:18 0.15
Craig Johnson L 0 0 3 1 0 -1 17:11 0.12
Kelly Buchberger R 0 0 0 4 0 0 10:26 0.00
Adam Mair C 0 0 0 1 0 0 4:17 0.00
Steve Heinze R 0 0 0 1 0 -1 17:22 -0.15
Jason Allison C 0 0 0 3 1 -1 20:49 -0.20
Lubomir Visnovsky D 0 0 0 0 1 -1 14:36 -0.25
Mathieu Schneider D 0 0 0 5 2 0 20:06 -0.55
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jamie Storr W 23 21 2 .913 60:00 0.60