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Wednesday, December 18, 2002 · HSBC Arena

Bruins 2 at Sabres 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 64OVR Chris Gratton Coyotes First Star 1G · 3A · 1 SOG R 72OVR J-P Dumont Sabres Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG C 49OVR Tim Connolly Sabres Third Star 2A · 0 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:50 Chris Gratton (9) J-P Dumont (7), Henrik Tallinder (4) · Snap BOS 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 6:26 Taylor Pyatt (6) Tim Connolly (5), Chris Gratton (14) · Tip-in BOS 0 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 5:55 Mike Knuble (7) PPG Joe Thornton (25), Glen Murray (16) · Tip-in BOS 1 – 2 BUF
  2. 9:01 J-P Dumont (6) PPG Chris Gratton (15), Tim Connolly (6) · Slap BOS 1 – 3 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 0:18 Sergei Samsonov (4) Joe Thornton (26) · Slap BOS 2 – 3 BUF
  2. 14:53 Stu Barnes (6) PPG J-P Dumont (8), Chris Gratton (16) · Wrist BOS 2 – 4 BUF

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Joe Thornton C 0 2 2 0 0 +1 20:46 1.25
Glen Murray R 0 1 4 1 0 +1 22:19 1.08
Sergei Samsonov L 1 0 3 0 0 0 18:34 0.98
Mike Knuble R 1 0 2 0 0 0 13:27 0.90
Hal Gill D 0 0 4 0 0 0 22:32 0.30
Ivan Huml L 0 0 3 0 0 0 12:22 0.22
Jonathan Girard D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 25:36 0.15
Don Sweeney D 0 0 1 0 0 0 12:50 0.08
Brian Rolston R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 18:18 0.00
Rob Zamuner L 0 0 0 0 0 0 9:05 0.00
Martin Lapointe R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 15:14 0.00
Sean Brown D 0 0 0 0 0 0 6:11 0.00
Jozef Stumpel L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 16:42 -0.15
Nick Boynton D 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:13 -0.15
Marty Mcinnis L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 15:11 -0.22
P.J. Stock C 0 0 1 0 0 0 4:24 -0.22
Sean O'Donnell D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 19:27 -0.30
Bryan Berard D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 16:56 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Shields L 25 21 4 .840 60:00 -0.90

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Chris Gratton C 1 3 1 0 0 +2 17:28 3.00
J-P Dumont R 1 2 2 0 0 +1 14:55 2.30
Tim Connolly C 0 2 0 0 0 +1 14:55 1.40
Taylor Pyatt L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 14:31 0.98
Stu Barnes C 1 0 2 0 0 0 18:53 0.90
Henrik Tallinder D 0 1 0 0 0 0 19:42 0.63
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 5 0 0 -1 23:04 0.23
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 26:28 0.23
Adam Mair C 0 0 2 0 0 0 7:30 0.15
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 20:26 0.15
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:44 0.08
Brian Campbell D 0 0 1 0 0 0 19:34 0.08
Eric Boulton L 0 0 0 0 0 0 5:25 0.00
Curtis Brown C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 18:57 0.00
Ales Kotalik R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 16:04 -0.15
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 2 0 0 4:35 -0.15
Vaclav Varada R 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:25 -0.30
Jay McKee D 0 0 1 0 0 0 17:30 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Biron W 29 27 2 .931 59:47 1.20