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Friday, January 3, 2003 · HSBC Arena

Hurricanes 3 at Sabres 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 72OVR J-P Dumont Sabres First Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG C 84OVR Rod Brind'Amour Hurricanes Second Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG R 94OVR Miroslav Satan Sabres Third Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:11 J-P Dumont (9) Alexei Zhitnik (10), Ales Kotalik (4) · Wrist CAR 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 8:52 Rod Brind'Amour (12) Glen Wesley (6), Bates Battaglia (8) · Backhand CAR 1 – 1 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 4:42 Bates Battaglia (5) Rod Brind'Amour (18), Erik Cole (11) · Snap CAR 2 – 1 BUF
  2. 7:10 Curtis Brown (7) SHG Miroslav Satan (18), Henrik Tallinder (6) · Wrist CAR 2 – 2 BUF
  3. 11:38 Miroslav Satan (14) Curtis Brown (8) · Wraparound CAR 2 – 3 BUF
  4. 12:42 Jeff O'Neill (13) Rod Brind'Amour (19), Bates Battaglia (9) · Slap CAR 3 – 3 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 7:23 Stu Barnes (8) J-P Dumont (9), Ales Kotalik (5) · Wrist CAR 3 – 4 BUF
  2. 9:59 J-P Dumont (10) Stu Barnes (11), Brian Campbell (7) · Wrist CAR 3 – 5 BUF
  3. 17:34 Miroslav Satan (15) PPG James Patrick (8), Alexei Zhitnik (11) · Slap CAR 3 – 6 BUF

Carolina Hurricanes

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rod Brind'Amour C 1 2 4 0 0 +3 19:46 2.75
Bates Battaglia L 1 2 1 1 0 +2 18:41 2.23
Erik Cole L 0 1 4 0 0 +1 16:50 1.08
Glen Wesley D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 22:07 0.85
Jeff O'Neill C 1 0 5 0 0 -2 16:12 0.83
Aaron Ward D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 23:30 0.07
Craig Adams R 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:51 0.00
Jesse Boulerice R 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:55 0.00
Jan Hlavac L 0 0 5 0 0 -2 16:17 -0.07
Kevyn Adams C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 9:45 -0.15
Jaroslav Svoboda L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 14:36 -0.15
Josef Vasicek C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 12:59 -0.15
Sean Hill D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 19:21 -0.15
Steven Halko D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 13:28 -0.15
Tomas Malec D 0 0 1 1 0 -1 17:56 -0.22
Niclas Wallin D 0 0 3 0 0 -2 20:18 -0.23
Sami Kapanen R 0 0 1 0 0 -3 16:06 -0.37
Ron Francis C 0 0 0 0 0 -3 17:29 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kevin Weekes L 34 28 6 .824 60:00 -1.70

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
J-P Dumont R 2 1 3 0 0 +3 16:25 2.80
Miroslav Satan R 2 1 5 0 0 +1 21:06 2.65
Stu Barnes C 1 1 3 0 0 +3 19:37 2.05
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 2 3 0 0 +1 29:20 1.63
Curtis Brown C 1 1 2 0 0 0 15:35 1.53
Ales Kotalik R 0 2 0 0 0 +2 13:06 1.40
James Patrick D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 16:37 0.85
Brian Campbell D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 13:38 0.85
Henrik Tallinder D 0 1 0 0 0 0 18:21 0.63
Chris Gratton C 0 0 8 1 0 0 17:02 0.45
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 19:01 0.30
Taylor Pyatt L 0 0 2 1 0 0 17:34 0.15
Vaclav Varada R 0 0 2 1 0 0 16:24 0.15
Tim Connolly C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 11:35 -0.08
Adam Mair C 0 0 1 1 0 -1 10:54 -0.08
Eric Boulton L 0 0 0 0 0 0 5:25 -0.15
Denis Hamel L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 13:32 -0.15
Jay McKee D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 18:12 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ryan Miller W 28 25 3 .893 59:56 0.25