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Wednesday, January 17, 1996 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Whalers 6 at Islanders 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 89OVR Andrei Nikolishin Whalers First Star 3A · 2 SOG R 95OVR Ziggy Palffy Islanders Second Star 2G · 1A · 6 SOG C 80OVR Robert Kron Whalers Third Star 2G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:37 Mathieu Schneider (5) PPG Travis Green (22), Ziggy Palffy (23) HFD 0 – 1 NYI
  2. 6:16 Jeff Brown (3) PPG Andrei Nikolishin (11) HFD 1 – 1 NYI
  3. 15:29 Kevin Dineen (2) Andrei Nikolishin (12) HFD 2 – 1 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 1:03 Brendan Shanahan (21) Unassisted HFD 3 – 1 NYI
  2. 8:11 Ziggy Palffy (16) PPG Travis Green (23), Mathieu Schneider (23) HFD 3 – 2 NYI
  3. 13:25 Robert Kron (12) Brad McCrimmon (3), Sean Burke (6) HFD 4 – 2 NYI
  4. 15:34 Robert Kron (13) Andrei Nikolishin (13) HFD 5 – 2 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 10:36 Ziggy Palffy (17) Wendel Clark (7), Mathieu Schneider (24) HFD 5 – 3 NYI
  2. 19:30 Geoff Sanderson (18) Nelson Emerson (15), Andrew Cassels (23) HFD 6 – 3 NYI

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 3 2 0 0 +3 0:00 2.48
Robert Kron C 2 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.95
Geoff Sanderson L 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.28
Jeff Brown D 1 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.13
Brendan Shanahan L 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.05
Nelson Emerson R 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Brad McCrimmon D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Kevin Dineen R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.90
Andrew Cassels C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Brian Glynn D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Adam Burt D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Steve Martins C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Kevin Smyth L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Glen Wesley D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Scott Daniels L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Mark Janssens C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Kelly Chase R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke W 42 39 3 .929 60:00 1.65

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ziggy Palffy R 2 1 6 0 0 -1 0:00 2.28
Mathieu Schneider D 1 2 3 0 0 -2 0:00 1.93
Travis Green C 0 2 1 0 0 -2 0:00 1.03
Wendel Clark L 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Marty Mcinnis L 0 0 6 0 0 -1 0:00 0.30
Niklas Andersson L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Alexander Semak C 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Chris Luongo D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Bryan McCabe D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Danton Cole R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bob Sweeney C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dan Plante R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Brent Severyn L 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Derek King L 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Todd Bertuzzi R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Patrick Flatley R 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Scott Lachance D 0 0 4 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.30
Rich Pilon D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Soderstrom — 8 5 3 .625 21:03 -1.75
Tommy Salo L 11 9 2 .818 38:25 -0.60