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Thursday, December 26, 1991 · Capital Centre

Rangers 8 at Capitals 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 93OVR Michal Pivonka Capitals First Star 3G · 4 SOG C 98OVR Mark Messier Rangers Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG R 93OVR Dmitri Khristich Capitals Third Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:27 Dmitri Khristich (17) Rod Langway (5), Alan May (3) NYR 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 6:21 Mark Messier (16) Tony Amonte (13), Adam Graves (12) NYR 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 10:05 Dmitri Khristich (18) PPG Dale Hunter (26), Calle Johansson (23) NYR 1 – 2 WSH
  4. 13:37 Michal Pivonka (12) PPG Dino Ciccarelli (18), Mike Ridley (22) NYR 1 – 3 WSH
  5. 13:58 Randy Burridge (14) PPG Dino Ciccarelli (19), Dale Hunter (27) NYR 1 – 4 WSH
  6. 15:08 Michal Pivonka (13) Dmitri Khristich (17), Peter Bondra (13) NYR 1 – 5 WSH
  7. 18:51 Michal Pivonka (14) SHG Randy Burridge (33) NYR 1 – 6 WSH
  8. 19:59 John Ogrodnick (12) Mark Messier (31), Brian Leetch (39) NYR 2 – 6 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 7:47 Joey Kocur (6) Sergei Nemchinov (6), Mark Hardy (5) NYR 3 – 6 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 2:10 Darren Turcotte (11) Mike Gartner (17), Randy Moller (5) NYR 4 – 6 WSH
  2. 5:41 Paul Broten (5) SHG Darren Turcotte (11) NYR 5 – 6 WSH
  3. 11:07 Kris King (5) Brian Leetch (40) NYR 6 – 6 WSH
  4. 12:07 Mike Gartner (21) Adam Graves (13), Mark Messier (32) NYR 7 – 6 WSH
  5. 19:24 Sergei Nemchinov (17) Unassisted NYR 8 – 6 WSH

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mark Messier C 1 2 3 +4 2.83
Sergei Nemchinov L 1 1 6 +2 1.98
Darren Turcotte C 1 1 5 +1 1.90
Adam Graves L 0 2 3 +3 1.78
Brian Leetch D 0 2 1 +3 1.78
Mike Gartner R 1 1 6 -1 1.68
Kris King L 1 0 4 +1 1.20
John Ogrodnick L 1 0 6 0 1.20
Paul Broten R 1 0 1 +2 1.13
Tony Amonte R 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Randy Moller D 0 1 2 +3 1.08
Joey Kocur R 1 0 3 +1 0.98
Mark Hardy D 0 1 0 +2 0.93
James Patrick D 0 0 4 +1 0.45
Jan Erixon L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Doug Weight C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Joe Cirella D 0 0 0 0 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Vanbiesbrouck W 7 7 0 1.000 40:00 0.70
Mike Richter — 18 12 6 .667 20:00 -3.30

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Michal Pivonka C 3 0 4 +2 2.85
Dmitri Khristich R 2 1 3 +1 2.50
Dino Ciccarelli R 0 2 6 -3 1.25
Rod Langway D 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Peter Bondra R 0 1 2 0 0.78
Dale Hunter C 0 2 0 -4 0.65
Alan May L 0 1 0 0 0.63
Randy Burridge L 1 1 2 -4 0.63
Mike Ridley C 0 1 0 -2 0.33
Al Iafrate D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
John Druce R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Calle Johansson D 0 1 1 -5 -0.05
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Mike Lalor D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Todd Krygier L 0 0 2 -2 -0.30
Kelly Miller L 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Nick Kypreos L 0 0 1 -2 -0.38
Kevin Hatcher D 0 0 2 -6 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Liut L 45 38 7 .844 60:00 -1.45