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Wednesday, February 25, 2004 · Continental Airlines Arena

Sabres 2 at Devils 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 98OVR Patrik Elias Devils First Star 2G · 3A · 6 SOG R 85OVR Brian Gionta Devils Second Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG C 92OVR Scott Gomez Devils Third Star 3A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:29 Patrik Elias (26) PPG Brian Rafalski (25), Scott Gomez (35) · Wrist BUF 0 – 1 NJD
  2. 2:02 Derek Roy (3) Maxim Afinogenov (9), Taylor Pyatt (10) · Wrist BUF 1 – 1 NJD
  3. 16:13 Brian Gionta (16) Paul Martin (11), Patrik Elias (28) · Wrist BUF 1 – 2 NJD
  4. 18:04 Jay Pandolfo (10) SHG John Madden (18), Scott Niedermayer (29) · Tip-in BUF 1 – 3 NJD
  5. 19:04 Maxim Afinogenov (14) PPG Alexei Zhitnik (24), Derek Roy (8) · Slap BUF 2 – 3 NJD

2nd Period

  1. 18:16 Jay Pandolfo (11) John Madden (19), Turner Stevenson (9) · Slap BUF 2 – 4 NJD
  2. 19:59 Brian Rafalski (5) Scott Gomez (36), Patrik Elias (29) · Snap BUF 2 – 5 NJD

3rd Period

  1. 2:47 Brian Gionta (17) Scott Gomez (37), Patrik Elias (30) · Wrist BUF 2 – 6 NJD
  2. 3:07 Jeff Friesen (14) Unassisted · Wrist BUF 2 – 7 NJD
  3. 15:34 Patrik Elias (27) PPG Scott Niedermayer (30), Brian Gionta (7) · Wrist BUF 2 – 8 NJD

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Maxim Afinogenov R 1 1 5 1 1 -1 15:53 1.65
Derek Roy C 1 1 2 0 1 -1 18:05 1.43
Taylor Pyatt L 0 1 3 0 1 0 14:30 0.75
Henrik Tallinder D 0 0 1 0 8 +1 21:11 0.63
Curtis Brown C 0 0 1 0 1 0 19:45 0.18
Rory Fitzpatrick D 0 0 0 1 1 0 22:59 0.10
Ales Kotalik R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2:03 0.00
Chris Drury C 0 0 3 0 0 -2 17:46 -0.08
Jochen Hecht C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 20:38 -0.30
Andy Delmore D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 18:07 -0.30
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 2 1 1 -3 20:00 -0.35
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 0 0 0 -2 18:06 -0.35
J-P Dumont R 0 0 3 1 0 -3 15:55 -0.38
Brian Campbell D 0 0 0 0 2 -2 16:44 -0.40
Adam Mair C 0 0 2 1 2 -2 8:28 -0.43
Dmitri Kalinin D 0 0 0 0 3 -4 21:20 -0.55
Eric Boulton L 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:26 -0.58
Daniel Brière C 0 0 0 0 0 -3 8:46 -0.80
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mika Noronen L 26 20 6 .769 42:46 -2.50
Martin Biron — 5 3 2 .600 17:13 -1.20

New Jersey Devils

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Patrik Elias C 2 3 6 1 1 +2 19:31 4.23
Brian Gionta R 2 1 4 0 0 +2 12:55 2.73
Scott Gomez C 0 3 1 0 0 +2 18:03 2.10
Brian Rafalski D 1 1 3 0 0 +3 22:13 2.10
Jay Pandolfo L 2 0 3 1 0 +2 12:31 1.93
Scott Niedermayer D 0 2 3 0 1 +2 26:03 1.73
John Madden C 0 2 2 0 1 +2 14:07 1.70
Jeff Friesen L 1 0 4 0 1 +1 15:28 1.15
Paul Martin D 0 1 1 0 2 +2 20:19 1.05
Turner Stevenson R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 12:34 0.95
Sergei Brylin L 0 0 2 0 0 +1 16:39 0.15
Colin White D 0 0 0 1 2 +1 21:48 0.10
Igor Larionov C 0 0 0 0 0 0 9:58 0.00
Erik Rasmussen C 0 0 0 2 0 0 11:56 0.00
Sean Brown D 0 0 0 0 2 +1 13:53 -0.08
Grant Marshall R 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:42 -0.10
David Hale D 0 0 0 0 2 +1 12:23 -0.63
Jamie Langenbrunner R 0 0 1 0 1 +1 13:06 -1.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Brodeur W 22 20 2 .909 60:00 0.50