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Saturday, December 28, 2002 · HSBC Arena

Wild 4 at Sabres 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 94OVR Marian Gaborik Wild First Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG R 95OVR Miroslav Satan Sabres Second Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG C 58OVR Jim Dowd Wild Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:57 Miroslav Satan (12) PPG Curtis Brown (7), Alexei Zhitnik (7) · Wrist MIN 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 3:24 Marian Gaborik (23) Jeremy Stevenson (1), Andrei Zyuzin (4) · Wrist MIN 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 15:23 Filip Kuba (3) PPG Jim Dowd (9), Marian Gaborik (13) · Snap MIN 2 – 1 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 11:50 Jim Dowd (3) Andrew Brunette (12), Marian Gaborik (14) · Slap MIN 3 – 1 BUF
  2. 18:29 Ales Kotalik (6) Miroslav Satan (16), Chris Gratton (19) · Wrist MIN 3 – 2 BUF
  3. 18:46 Antti Laaksonen (8) Brad Bombardir (10) · Wrist MIN 4 – 2 BUF
  4. 19:04 Stu Barnes (7) Chris Gratton (20), Brian Campbell (6) · Wrist MIN 4 – 3 BUF

Minnesota Wild

Player G A SOG HIT +/- TOI GS
Marian Gaborik R 1 2 5 0 +1 18:55 2.53
Jim Dowd C 1 1 3 0 0 16:35 1.60
Antti Laaksonen L 1 0 2 0 +1 15:01 1.05
Brad Bombardir D 0 1 1 0 +1 22:27 0.85
Andrei Zyuzin D 0 1 1 0 +1 21:49 0.85
Filip Kuba D 1 0 1 0 0 24:27 0.83
Jeremy Stevenson L 0 1 2 0 0 11:33 0.78
Andrew Brunette L 0 1 0 0 0 14:41 0.63
Richard Park R 0 0 2 0 +1 18:23 0.30
Sergei Zholtok C 0 0 4 0 +1 19:19 0.30
Pascal Dupuis R 0 0 2 0 0 15:49 0.15
Nick Schultz D 0 0 0 0 +1 18:12 0.15
Stephane Veilleux L 0 0 1 0 0 10:05 0.08
Wes Walz C 0 0 2 0 0 9:42 0.00
Brad Brown D 0 0 0 1 0 11:40 0.00
Lubomir Sekeras D 0 0 1 0 -1 17:17 -0.08
Cliff Ronning C 0 0 2 0 -1 17:47 -0.15
Matt Johnson L 0 0 0 1 0 9:26 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Manny Fernandez W 40 37 3 .925 60:00 1.45

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT +/- TOI GS
Miroslav Satan R 1 1 6 0 +1 23:18 1.98
Chris Gratton C 0 2 2 0 +1 16:27 1.40
Ales Kotalik R 1 0 4 0 +1 17:43 1.20
Brian Campbell D 0 1 3 1 +2 20:05 1.15
Stu Barnes C 1 0 2 0 +1 20:03 1.05
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 3 0 0 22:12 0.85
Curtis Brown C 0 1 1 0 -1 17:03 0.55
James Patrick D 0 0 2 0 +1 17:25 0.30
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 4 0 0 21:03 0.15
J-P Dumont R 0 0 1 0 0 9:49 0.08
Adam Mair C 0 0 5 0 -1 12:59 0.08
Denis Hamel L 0 0 1 0 0 11:46 0.08
Tim Connolly C 0 0 0 0 0 8:21 0.00
Rob Ray R 0 0 1 0 0 3:51 -0.08
Taylor Pyatt L 0 0 2 0 -2 13:24 -0.15
Jay McKee D 0 0 1 0 -2 18:01 -0.22
Vaclav Varada R 0 0 2 1 -2 17:17 -0.30
Henrik Tallinder D 0 0 0 0 -3 21:11 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Biron L 28 25 3 .893 58:53 0.25