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Thursday, February 22, 1996 · Madison Square Garden

Islanders 5 at Rangers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 72OVR Marty Mcinnis Islanders First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG R 81OVR Alex Kovalev Rangers Second Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG C 65OVR Martin Straka Panthers Third Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:14 Marty Mcinnis (7) Martin Straka (22), Rich Pilon (2) NYI 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 11:12 Alex Kovalev (15) Luc Robitaille (38), Brian Leetch (51) NYI 1 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 10:23 Martin Straka (11) Marty Mcinnis (24), Wendel Clark (11) NYI 2 – 1 NYR
  2. 11:26 Patrick Flatley (6) Bob Sweeney (5), Niklas Andersson (8) NYI 3 – 1 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 1:18 Marty Mcinnis (8) Wendel Clark (12) NYI 4 – 1 NYR
  2. 4:09 Alex Kovalev (16) SHG Mark Messier (44), Doug Lidster (7) NYI 4 – 2 NYR
  3. 19:13 Brian Leetch (11) Alex Kovalev (28), Mark Messier (45) NYI 4 – 3 NYR
  4. 19:20 Scott Lachance (2) Unassisted NYI 5 – 3 NYR

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Marty Mcinnis L 2 1 4 0 0 +3 0:00 2.88
Martin Straka C 1 1 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.90
Wendel Clark L 0 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.78
Scott Lachance D 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Niklas Andersson L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Rich Pilon D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Patrick Flatley R 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Bob Sweeney C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Dan Plante R 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Mathieu Schneider D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Bryan McCabe D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Alexander Semak C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Chris Taylor C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Brad Dalgarno R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Todd Bertuzzi R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Chris Luongo D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Derek King L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Soderstrom W 36 33 3 .917 60:00 1.05

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alex Kovalev R 2 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.58
Brian Leetch D 1 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Mark Messier C 0 2 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.33
Luc Robitaille L 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Doug Lidster D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Ray Ferraro C 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Adam Graves L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Pat Verbeek R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bruce Driver D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Joey Kocur R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Ian Laperriere R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Mattias Norstrom D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Nick Kypreos L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Wayne Presley R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Healy L 26 22 4 .846 59:26 -0.80