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Wednesday, March 12, 2003 · HSBC Arena

Hurricanes 3 at Sabres 2

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 85OVR Ron Francis Hurricanes First Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG G 53OVR Patrick Desrochers Hurricanes Second Star 32 SV · .941 RC D 83OVR Bruno St. Jacques Hurricanes Third Star 2A · 1 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 18:11 Adam Mair (6) Jason Botterill (2), Eric Boulton (2) · Wrist CAR 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 19:39 Tim Connolly (10) Taylor Pyatt (12), Maxim Afinogenov (3) · Backhand CAR 0 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 0:20 Ron Francis (21) Ryan Bayda (8), Bruno St. Jacques (2) · Slap CAR 1 – 2 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 19:50 Radim Vrbata (12) Ron Francis (28), Bret Hedican (13) · Wrist CAR 2 – 2 BUF

Overtime

  1. 3:41 Craig Adams (6) Kevyn Adams (8), Bruno St. Jacques (3) · Wrist CAR 3 – 2 BUF

Carolina Hurricanes

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ron Francis C 1 1 4 0 1 +2 19:10 1.93
Bruno St. Jacques D 0 2 1 1 2 +1 25:12 1.63
Craig Adams R 1 0 6 2 0 +1 19:57 1.35
Kevyn Adams C 0 1 2 2 0 +1 21:28 0.98
Radim Vrbata R 1 0 3 0 0 0 17:46 0.98
Ryan Bayda L 0 1 2 1 0 +2 17:28 0.98
Bret Hedican D 0 1 1 0 4 +1 25:54 0.70
Jeff O'Neill C 0 0 4 0 1 +2 19:55 0.65
Sean Hill D 0 0 2 1 0 +1 25:17 0.30
Craig MacDonald C 0 0 4 3 0 0 16:31 0.25
Aaron Ward D 0 0 0 2 0 +1 23:35 0.10
Josef Vasicek C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 16:48 0.05
Mike Zigomanis C 0 0 1 0 1 -1 7:16 -0.02
Jeff Daniels L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 9:31 -0.13
Brad Defauw L 0 0 0 5 0 -1 13:48 -0.15
Tomas Malec D 0 0 0 1 0 -1 8:36 -0.15
Niclas Wallin D 0 0 0 1 0 -1 10:33 -0.20
David Tanabe D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 15:59 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Patrick Desrochers W 34 32 2 .941 63:07 1.70

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Maxim Afinogenov R 0 1 5 1 0 +1 14:16 1.10
Eric Boulton L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 9:56 0.85
Adam Mair C 1 0 1 7 0 0 13:09 0.83
Tim Connolly C 1 0 2 0 1 -1 20:09 0.80
Jason Botterill L 0 1 1 2 0 +1 10:42 0.80
Taylor Pyatt L 0 1 1 2 0 0 12:51 0.75
J-P Dumont R 0 0 7 1 0 0 13:51 0.53
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 1 2 2 +1 19:20 0.33
Jochen Hecht C 0 0 3 1 0 0 18:02 0.18
Brian Campbell D 0 0 1 0 1 0 27:11 0.18
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 3 0 1 -1 22:01 0.07
Curtis Brown C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 15:58 0.05
James Patrick D 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:24 0.05
Daniel Brière C 0 0 2 0 0 0 16:28 0.00
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 23:16 -0.05
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 0 1 2 2 -2 28:24 -0.12
Ales Kotalik R 0 0 3 5 0 -2 16:55 -0.28
Rory Fitzpatrick D 0 0 0 2 0 -1 13:52 -0.35
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Biron L 34 31 3 .912 63:40 0.85