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Sunday, February 23, 2003 · St. Pete Times Forum

Sabres 4 at Lightning 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 73OVR Martin Biron Sabres First Star 30 SV · .968 D 71OVR Alexei Zhitnik Sabres Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG · 4 HIT C 70OVR Chris Gratton Coyotes Third Star 2A · 2 SOG · 4 HIT

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:24 Maxim Afinogenov (1) Unassisted · Wrist BUF 1 – 0 TBL
  2. 9:25 Alexei Zhitnik (2) Dmitri Kalinin (9), Stu Barnes (20) · Wrist BUF 2 – 0 TBL

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 0:24 Brad Richards (13) PPG Martin St. Louis (28), Vinny Prospal (42) · Wrist BUF 2 – 1 TBL
  2. 12:14 Miroslav Satan (21) PPG Chris Gratton (27), Brian Campbell (13) · Wrist BUF 3 – 1 TBL
  3. 19:14 Vaclav Varada (7) Chris Gratton (28), Alexei Zhitnik (13) · Wrist BUF 4 – 1 TBL

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alexei Zhitnik D 1 1 3 4 1 +2 28:21 1.75
Chris Gratton C 0 2 2 4 0 +1 14:41 1.55
Maxim Afinogenov R 1 0 3 0 0 +1 10:53 1.13
Miroslav Satan R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 18:29 1.10
Stu Barnes C 0 1 0 0 0 +2 17:37 0.98
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 1 0 1 1 +2 27:29 0.78
Brian Campbell D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 19:10 0.75
Vaclav Varada R 1 0 4 1 0 +1 15:58 0.62
James Patrick D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 17:30 0.25
Eric Boulton L 0 0 1 1 1 +1 8:38 0.22
Taylor Pyatt L 0 0 2 0 0 0 15:29 0.20
Adam Mair C 0 0 2 0 0 +1 11:11 0.15
Tim Connolly C 0 0 1 0 1 0 12:44 0.13
Curtis Brown C 0 0 1 0 1 0 19:42 0.13
Rory Fitzpatrick D 0 0 0 2 1 0 16:56 0.05
Ales Kotalik R 0 0 0 1 0 0 11:06 0.00
Radoslav Hecl D 0 0 0 1 0 0 8:58 0.00
Denis Hamel L 0 0 1 1 1 0 12:13 -0.02
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Biron W 31 30 1 .968 60:00 2.25

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brad Richards C 1 0 3 0 0 0 21:25 0.93
Martin St. Louis R 0 1 2 0 0 -2 21:34 0.53
Vinny Prospal L 0 1 1 0 0 -2 20:04 0.35
Freddy Modin L 0 0 3 0 0 0 18:36 0.32
Nikita Alexeev R 0 0 3 0 0 0 13:08 0.22
Chris Dingman L 0 0 1 0 0 0 5:35 0.08
Ruslan Fedotenko L 0 0 1 0 0 0 10:50 0.08
Tim Taylor C 0 0 1 0 0 0 5:47 0.08
Dave Andreychuk L 0 0 4 0 1 -1 16:43 0.05
Ben Clymer R 0 0 3 2 0 -1 15:12 0.02
Dan Boyle D 0 0 3 1 1 -1 30:12 0.02
Alexander Svitov C 0 0 2 2 0 -1 11:29 -0.05
Stan Neckar D 0 0 0 1 2 -1 20:31 -0.05
Darren Rumble D 0 0 0 1 1 0 10:01 -0.05
Cory Sarich D 0 0 2 2 1 -1 21:03 -0.15
Nolan Pratt D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 13:48 -0.15
Vincent Lecavalier C 0 0 1 2 0 -3 19:30 -0.43
Brad Lukowich D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 12:16 -0.97
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Grahame L 24 21 3 .875 58:48 -0.15