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Friday, November 29, 2002 · HSBC Arena

Penguins 4 at Sabres 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 47OVR Johan Hedberg Penguins First Star 43 SV · .977 R 95OVR Alex Kovalev Rangers Second Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG C 82OVR Jan Hrdina Coyotes Third Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 8:45 Alex Kovalev (14) PPG Dick Tarnstrom (21), Jan Hrdina (10) · Slap PIT 1 – 0 BUF
  2. 9:12 Jan Hrdina (10) PPG Alex Kovalev (16), Ville Nieminen (4) · Tip-in PIT 2 – 0 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 8:08 Alex Kovalev (15) Randy Robitaille (3), Ian Moran (4) · Slap PIT 3 – 0 BUF
  2. 9:29 Stu Barnes (5) Vaclav Varada (3), Jochen Hecht (8) · Wrist PIT 3 – 1 BUF
  3. 19:44 Ville Nieminen (4) SHG Marc Bergevin (2), Jan Hrdina (11) · Wrist PIT 4 – 1 BUF

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alex Kovalev R 2 1 5 0 0 +1 25:24 2.50
Jan Hrdina C 1 2 2 0 0 +1 21:27 2.30
Ville Nieminen L 1 1 2 1 0 +1 20:20 1.53
Randy Robitaille C 0 1 5 0 0 +1 15:38 1.15
Ian Moran D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 20:13 0.93
Marc Bergevin D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 19:00 0.93
Dick Tarnstrom D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 22:56 0.55
Michal Sivek C 0 0 3 0 0 +1 11:06 0.38
Jamie Pushor D 0 0 1 0 0 0 16:12 0.08
Andrew Ference D 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:14 0.08
Hans Jonsson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 16:12 0.00
Alexandre Daigle R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 11:28 -0.08
Kent Manderville C 0 0 1 0 0 0 11:48 -0.08
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 18:14 -0.15
Aleksey Morozov R 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:39 -0.15
Janne Laukkanen D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 4:25 -0.15
Steve McKenna L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 7:11 -0.22
Dan Lacouture L 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Johan Hedberg W 44 43 1 .977 60:00 3.55

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Stu Barnes C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 17:35 1.20
Jochen Hecht C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 16:32 1.00
Vaclav Varada R 0 1 1 1 0 +1 16:17 0.85
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 8 0 0 -1 19:12 0.45
Tim Connolly C 0 0 7 0 0 -1 17:30 0.38
Curtis Brown C 0 0 4 0 0 0 16:06 0.15
Brian Campbell D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 20:10 0.15
Chris Gratton C 0 0 5 0 0 -1 17:17 0.08
Rory Fitzpatrick D 0 0 1 0 0 0 19:58 0.08
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 1 0 0 0 16:48 0.08
Jay McKee D 0 0 2 1 0 -1 19:04 0.00
Ales Kotalik R 0 0 3 1 0 -2 12:09 -0.08
J-P Dumont R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 18:10 -0.08
Adam Mair C 0 0 0 1 0 -1 9:23 -0.15
Taylor Pyatt L 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:28 -0.15
Eric Boulton L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 4:17 -0.15
James Patrick D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 22:08 -0.15
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 2 0 0 0 15:37 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Biron L 22 19 3 .864 58:42 -0.35