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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 · Madison Square Garden

Sabres 4 at Rangers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 93OVR Jochen Hecht Sabres First Star 2G · 2A · 4 SOG R 63OVR Mike Grier Sabres Second Star 2A · 5 SOG C 91OVR Chris Drury Sabres Third Star 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:59 Daniel Brière (27) Jochen Hecht (35) · Wrist BUF 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 19:03 Mark Messier (18) Jozef Balej (2), Cory Larose (1) · Backhand BUF 1 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 3:27 Jochen Hecht (14) Mike Grier (18), Brad Brown (3) · Tip-in BUF 2 – 1 NYR
  2. 3:48 Jochen Hecht (15) Mike Grier (19), Chris Drury (34) · Slap BUF 3 – 1 NYR
  3. 11:00 Thomas Pock (2) Karel Rachunek (17), Jozef Balej (3) · Snap BUF 3 – 2 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 2:56 Dmitri Kalinin (10) Chris Drury (35), Jochen Hecht (36) · Wrist BUF 4 – 2 NYR
  2. 9:12 Josh Green (5) Chris McAllister (1) · Wrist BUF 4 – 3 NYR

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jochen Hecht C 2 2 4 0 0 +4 19:31 3.65
Mike Grier R 0 2 5 1 2 +4 17:46 2.33
Chris Drury C 0 2 3 2 1 +3 20:36 2.03
Dmitri Kalinin D 1 0 2 1 3 +2 25:26 1.40
Daniel Brière C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 17:51 1.25
Brad Brown D 0 1 1 1 0 +1 19:25 0.85
James Patrick D 0 0 1 3 1 +1 20:37 0.33
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 3 1 2 0 18:21 0.32
Jay McKee D 0 0 1 1 2 +1 19:06 0.28
Jeff Jillson D 0 0 4 1 1 -1 17:08 0.15
Andrew Peters L 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:52 0.00
Chris Taylor C 0 0 1 2 0 0 11:04 -0.08
Maxim Afinogenov R 0 0 3 1 0 -2 12:54 -0.08
J-P Dumont R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 20:24 -0.15
Milan Bartovic R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 13:38 -0.22
Henrik Tallinder D 0 0 1 1 0 -2 15:28 -0.28
Derek Roy C 0 0 2 1 0 -3 13:05 -0.30
Adam Mair C 0 0 1 3 0 0 10:48 -0.35
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Biron W 40 37 3 .925 60:00 1.45

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jozef Balej R 0 2 3 0 0 +1 17:47 1.58
Mark Messier C 1 0 5 0 1 +1 18:06 1.33
Josh Green C 1 0 4 2 0 +2 15:22 1.20
Cory Larose C 0 1 3 3 1 +1 15:04 1.05
Chris McAllister L 0 1 1 1 2 +1 17:26 0.90
Thomas Pock D 1 0 2 2 0 -2 19:32 0.60
Karel Rachunek D 0 1 1 1 3 -2 19:42 0.60
Jamie Lundmark C 0 0 5 0 3 0 16:43 0.53
Lawrence Nycholat D 0 0 2 0 1 +1 17:46 0.30
Dan Lacouture L 0 0 3 1 0 0 17:43 0.22
Boris Mironov D 0 0 1 1 2 +1 23:18 0.18
Fedor Tyutin D 0 0 0 3 1 0 22:34 0.10
Sandy McCarthy R 0 0 3 1 0 -1 13:32 0.07
Jan Hlavac L 0 0 5 0 0 -3 15:14 -0.07
Mike Green C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 11:07 -0.08
Bobby Holik C 0 0 1 2 1 -2 14:17 -0.18
Jaromir Jagr R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 6:21 -0.35
Garth Murray C 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:25 -0.43
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Dunham L 39 35 4 .897 59:00 0.50