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Saturday, October 26, 2002 · Mellon Arena

Sabres 2 at Penguins 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 95OVR Alex Kovalev Rangers First Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG C 97OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins Second Star 2A · 2 SOG G 47OVR Johan Hedberg Penguins Third Star 29 SV · .935

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:24 Adam Mair (1) SHG Alexei Zhitnik (2) · Wrist BUF 1 – 0 PIT
  2. 8:39 Wayne Primeau (1) PPG Janne Laukkanen (1), Ville Nieminen (2) · Tip-in BUF 1 – 1 PIT
  3. 16:23 Alexandre Daigle (1) PPG Dick Tarnstrom (6), Alex Kovalev (6) · Tip-in BUF 1 – 2 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 5:30 Aleksey Morozov (7) PPG Mario Lemieux (13), Jan Hrdina (4) · Backhand BUF 1 – 3 PIT
  2. 12:08 Michal Rozsival (1) PPG Alexandre Daigle (2), Vladimir Vujtek (1) · Slap BUF 1 – 4 PIT
  3. 13:04 Jochen Hecht (3) PPG Chris Gratton (8), Miroslav Satan (4) · Wrist BUF 2 – 4 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 0:43 Alex Kovalev (7) Mario Lemieux (14) · Wrist BUF 2 – 5 PIT

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Miroslav Satan R 0 1 5 0 0 +1 22:38 1.15
Jochen Hecht C 1 0 4 0 0 0 20:20 1.05
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 24:12 0.85
Chris Gratton C 0 1 5 0 0 0 16:38 0.55
Curtis Brown C 0 0 5 0 0 -1 19:46 0.23
Tim Connolly C 0 0 3 0 0 0 16:32 0.22
Taylor Pyatt L 0 0 2 0 0 0 12:22 0.15
Henrik Tallinder D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 18:20 0.15
Adam Mair C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 4:13 0.07
Vaclav Varada R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 22:57 0.00
Stu Barnes C 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:37 0.00
Jason Woolley D 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:54 0.00
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:50 0.00
Brian Campbell D 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:28 -0.15
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 14:32 -0.15
J-P Dumont R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 14:22 -0.30
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 14:53 -0.30
Eric Boulton L 0 0 0 0 0 0 5:29 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Biron L 23 18 5 .783 59:46 -1.95

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alex Kovalev R 1 1 2 0 0 0 23:54 1.53
Mario Lemieux C 0 2 2 0 0 0 26:01 1.40
Alexandre Daigle R 1 1 1 0 0 -1 11:04 1.30
Aleksey Morozov R 1 0 2 1 0 0 22:24 0.90
Ville Nieminen L 0 1 3 0 0 0 16:39 0.85
Dick Tarnstrom D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 26:33 0.85
Vladimir Vujtek L 0 1 0 0 0 0 8:30 0.63
Janne Laukkanen D 0 1 0 0 0 0 16:14 0.63
Michal Rozsival D 1 0 1 0 0 -1 19:47 0.53
Jan Hrdina C 0 1 0 0 0 0 19:09 0.48
Ian Moran D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 20:18 0.30
Dan Lacouture L 0 0 3 2 0 0 13:42 0.07
Marc Bergevin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:37 0.00
Shean Donovan R 0 0 1 0 0 0 7:11 -0.08
Kent Manderville C 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:44 -0.08
Wayne Primeau C 1 0 2 0 0 0 10:07 -0.22
Steve McKenna L 0 0 2 0 0 0 3:57 -0.52
Jamie Pushor D 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:57 -1.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Johan Hedberg W 31 29 2 .935 60:00 1.40