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Wednesday, February 21, 1996 · Hartford Civic Center

Canadiens 3 at Whalers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 94OVR Jeff Brown Whalers First Star 3A · 3 SOG L 95OVR Brendan Shanahan Whalers Second Star 3A · 0 SOG R 63OVR Sami Kapanen Whalers Third Star 2G · 3 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:01 Vladimir Malakhov (4) PPG Vincent Damphousse (40), Mark Recchi (39) MTL 1 – 0 HFD
  2. 5:27 Vincent Damphousse (26) Martin Rucinsky (30) MTL 2 – 0 HFD
  3. 7:51 Glen Wesley (7) PPG Jeff Brown (29), Brendan Shanahan (20) MTL 2 – 1 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 10:09 David Wilkie (1) PPG Valeri Bure (13), Martin Rucinsky (31) MTL 3 – 1 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 5:35 Sami Kapanen (2) Brendan Shanahan (21), Jeff Brown (30) MTL 3 – 2 HFD
  2. 10:02 Steven Rice (7) Glen Featherstone (7), Jeff Brown (31) MTL 3 – 3 HFD
  3. 11:02 Andrei Nikolishin (8) Robert Kron (19) MTL 3 – 4 HFD
  4. 19:02 Sami Kapanen (3) Brendan Shanahan (22) MTL 3 – 5 HFD

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Martin Rucinsky L 0 2 2 0 0 -1 0:00 1.25
Vincent Damphousse C 1 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 1.23
Vladimir Malakhov D 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Mark Recchi R 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
David Wilkie D 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.60
Valeri Bure R 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.32
Saku Koivu C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Marc Bureau C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Scott Fraser R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Donald Brashear L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Darcy Tucker R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Pierre Turgeon C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Rory Fitzpatrick D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Chris Murray R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.23
Lyle Odelein D 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.23
Craig Rivet D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.23
Turner Stevenson R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Peter Popovic D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jose Theodore — 2 1 1 .500 8:58 -0.65
Pat Jablonski L 33 29 4 .879 51:02 -0.10

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jeff Brown D 0 3 3 0 0 +3 0:00 2.25
Brendan Shanahan L 0 3 0 0 0 +2 0:00 2.18
Sami Kapanen R 2 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.03
Steven Rice R 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Andrei Nikolishin C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Glen Wesley D 1 0 6 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Robert Kron C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Glen Featherstone D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 10 0 0 0 0:00 0.60
Adam Burt D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Paul Ranheim L 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Brad McCrimmon D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Mark Janssens C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Steve Martins C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Andrew Cassels C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Kelly Chase R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Scott Daniels L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke W 21 18 3 .857 60:00 -0.45