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Friday, December 16, 2005 · Mellon Arena

Sabres 4 at Penguins 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 81OVR Chris Drury Sabres First Star 1G · 2A · 7 SOG R 82OVR Ales Kotalik Sabres Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG C 96OVR Daniel Brière Sabres Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 1:26 Daniel Brière (14) PPG Chris Drury (12), Ales Kotalik (8) · Wrist BUF 1 – 0 PIT
  2. 3:28 Michel Ouellet (1) PPG Mark Recchi (18), Erik Christensen (4) · Wrist BUF 1 – 1 PIT
  3. 8:05 Jochen Hecht (7) Jay McKee (5) · Wrist BUF 2 – 1 PIT
  4. 17:11 Ryan Malone (6) PPG Tomas Surovy (1), Ryan Whitney (11) · Wrist BUF 2 – 2 PIT
  5. 19:08 Ales Kotalik (15) PPG Brian Campbell (12), Chris Drury (13) · Wrist BUF 3 – 2 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 17:43 Ziggy Palffy (11) Sidney Crosby (19), Mario Lemieux (15) · Wrist BUF 3 – 3 PIT

Overtime

  1. 1:32 Chris Drury (10) PPG Daniel Brière (9), Ales Kotalik (9) · Wrist BUF 4 – 3 PIT

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Chris Drury C 1 2 7 0 0 0 18:49 2.53
Ales Kotalik R 1 2 3 1 0 0 18:35 2.23
Daniel Brière C 1 1 4 0 0 0 21:57 1.68
Jochen Hecht C 1 0 1 0 0 0 16:05 0.83
Brian Campbell D 0 1 2 1 0 0 17:16 0.78
Jay McKee D 0 1 0 2 1 +1 15:51 0.68
Tim Connolly C 0 0 3 0 1 0 20:43 0.27
Rory Fitzpatrick D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 13:24 0.22
Derek Roy C 0 0 1 0 1 0 16:04 0.08
Mike Grier R 0 0 0 2 1 0 11:35 0.05
Paul Gaustad C 0 0 0 2 1 0 11:47 0.05
Jason Pominville R 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:21 0.00
Thomas Vanek L 0 0 1 0 0 0 12:48 -0.08
Toni Lydman D 0 0 2 0 1 -1 21:09 -0.10
Maxim Afinogenov R 0 0 1 0 0 0 16:22 -0.13
Adam Mair C 0 0 0 3 0 0 7:41 -0.15
Teppo Numminen D 0 0 0 0 0 0 21:09 -0.20
Henrik Tallinder D 0 0 1 1 0 -1 21:09 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Biron W 27 24 3 .889 61:17 0.15

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Sidney Crosby C 0 1 6 0 1 +1 20:19 1.22
Ziggy Palffy R 1 0 4 0 0 +1 19:13 1.20
Ryan Whitney D 0 1 1 0 2 +1 26:04 0.90
Erik Christensen C 0 1 3 0 0 0 14:34 0.85
Tomas Surovy L 0 1 3 1 0 0 12:04 0.85
Mario Lemieux C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 17:23 0.85
Michel Ouellet R 1 0 1 0 0 0 16:34 0.83
Ryan Malone L 1 0 2 4 1 0 13:50 0.80
Mark Recchi R 0 1 1 3 0 0 18:13 0.70
Matt Murley L 0 0 1 0 4 -1 12:02 0.13
Matt Hussey C 0 0 1 0 0 0 13:07 0.08
Lyle Odelein D 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:21 0.00
Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 24:46 -0.08
Josef Melichar D 0 0 2 1 1 -1 20:58 -0.10
Andre Roy R 0 0 0 2 0 -1 4:08 -0.15
Dick Tarnstrom D 0 0 0 0 1 +1 17:57 -0.15
Brooks Orpik D 0 0 0 7 0 0 14:30 -0.15
Shane Endicott C 0 0 0 1 1 -1 9:47 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Marc-Andre Fleury O 27 23 4 .852 61:18 -0.70