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Saturday, December 21, 2002 · Centre Bell

Sabres 2 at Canadiens 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 87OVR Yanic Perreault Canadiens First Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG C 94OVR Saku Koivu Canadiens Second Star 1G · 2A · 1 SOG G 75OVR Jose Theodore Canadiens Third Star 36 SV · .947

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:21 Yanic Perreault (17) Patrick Traverse (5), Randy Mckay (8) · Backhand BUF 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 10:25 Doug Gilmour (7) PPG Mariusz Czerkawski (8), Yanic Perreault (13) · Snap BUF 0 – 2 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 3:43 Saku Koivu (11) PPG Craig Rivet (7) · Snap BUF 0 – 3 MTL
  2. 6:43 Doug Gilmour (8) Yanic Perreault (14), Randy Mckay (9) · Tip-in BUF 0 – 4 MTL
  3. 16:02 Richard Zednik (16) Saku Koivu (18) · Snap BUF 0 – 5 MTL
  4. 16:46 Adam Mair (3) Brian Campbell (4) · Tip-in BUF 1 – 5 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 6:29 Chad Kilger (5) Saku Koivu (19), Richard Zednik (11) · Wrist BUF 1 – 6 MTL
  2. 18:02 Miroslav Satan (11) PPG Alexei Zhitnik (6), Henrik Tallinder (5) · Slap BUF 2 – 6 MTL

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Adam Mair C 1 0 1 1 0 0 10:07 0.83
Brian Campbell D 0 1 2 0 0 0 16:51 0.78
Miroslav Satan R 1 0 5 0 0 -1 15:41 0.68
Henrik Tallinder D 0 1 1 0 0 -2 24:59 0.40
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 3 0 0 -3 27:20 0.40
Eric Boulton L 0 0 2 0 0 +1 9:27 0.30
Ales Kotalik R 0 0 3 0 0 0 12:02 0.22
Vaclav Varada R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 15:11 0.22
Chris Gratton C 0 0 6 0 0 -1 17:44 0.15
James Patrick D 0 0 2 0 0 0 16:21 0.15
J-P Dumont R 0 0 1 0 0 0 16:20 0.08
Curtis Brown C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 14:09 0.07
Tim Connolly C 0 0 4 0 0 -2 13:55 0.00
Stu Barnes C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 17:47 0.00
Radoslav Hecl D 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:07 -0.15
Taylor Pyatt L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 11:38 -0.22
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 19:54 -0.30
Norman Milley R 0 0 1 0 0 -3 11:27 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mika Noronen L 10 6 4 .600 39:34 -2.40
Martin Biron — 6 4 2 .667 20:00 -1.10

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Yanic Perreault C 1 2 4 0 0 +1 19:25 2.45
Saku Koivu C 1 2 1 0 0 +2 15:59 2.23
Doug Gilmour C 2 0 3 0 0 +1 18:58 1.88
Richard Zednik R 1 1 2 0 0 +2 17:14 1.68
Randy Mckay R 0 2 0 0 0 +1 17:56 1.40
Chad Kilger L 1 0 1 1 0 +1 13:33 0.98
Craig Rivet D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 18:23 0.93
Patrick Traverse D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 23:28 0.78
Mariusz Czerkawski R 0 1 0 0 0 0 11:29 0.63
Andrei Markov D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 24:16 0.30
Donald Audette R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 12:12 0.22
Mike Ribeiro C 0 0 1 0 0 0 8:19 0.08
Andreas Dackell R 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:02 0.00
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:19 0.00
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 2 0 0 0 21:57 0.00
Jan Bulis C 0 0 1 0 0 0 13:44 -0.08
Karl Dykhuis D 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:51 -0.15
Sylvain Blouin L 0 0 0 2 0 0 5:11 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jose Theodore W 38 36 2 .947 60:00 2.10