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Friday, February 23, 1996 · Civic Arena

Whalers 4 at Penguins 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 95OVR Brendan Shanahan Whalers First Star 3G · 1A · 8 SOG C 99OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins Second Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG R 99OVR Jaromir Jagr Penguins Third Star 2G · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:49 Mario Lemieux (49) PPG Bryan Smolinski (27), Ron Francis (68) HFD 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 15:15 Brendan Shanahan (28) Sami Kapanen (2) HFD 1 – 1 PIT
  3. 18:44 Brendan Shanahan (29) PPG Andrew Cassels (31), Nelson Emerson (21) HFD 2 – 1 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 0:58 Markus Naslund (17) Mario Lemieux (70), Chris Tamer (6) HFD 2 – 2 PIT
  2. 6:22 Jaromir Jagr (49) PPG Sergei Zubov (37), Bryan Smolinski (28) HFD 2 – 3 PIT
  3. 14:12 Brendan Shanahan (30) PPG Robert Kron (20), Andrei Nikolishin (20) HFD 3 – 3 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 3:08 Nelson Emerson (21) Brendan Shanahan (23), Steve Martins (3) HFD 4 – 3 PIT
  2. 5:37 Mario Lemieux (50) PPG Ron Francis (69), Sergei Zubov (38) HFD 4 – 4 PIT
  3. 9:23 Jaromir Jagr (50) PPG Sergei Zubov (39), Ken Wregget (2) HFD 4 – 5 PIT

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Brendan Shanahan L 3 1 8 +2 3.03
Nelson Emerson R 1 1 5 +2 1.90
Sami Kapanen R 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Steve Martins C 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Robert Kron C 0 1 3 -1 0.70
Jeff Brown D 0 0 3 +2 0.52
Andrew Cassels C 0 1 3 0 0.48
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Adam Burt D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Mark Janssens C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Glen Featherstone D 0 0 3 +1 0.08
Brad McCrimmon D 0 0 3 0 0.07
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 1 0 -1 0.03
Steven Rice R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Kevin Smyth L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Paul Ranheim L 0 0 3 -1 -0.08
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Glen Wesley D 0 0 2 0 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke L 35 30 5 .857 59:12 -0.75

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mario Lemieux C 2 1 5 0 2.35
Jaromir Jagr R 2 0 6 0 1.95
Sergei Zubov D 0 3 3 -1 1.80
Bryan Smolinski C 0 2 6 0 1.70
Ron Francis C 0 2 1 0 1.33
Markus Naslund L 1 0 2 0 0.90
Chris Tamer D 0 1 3 0 0.85
Petr Nedved C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Richard Park R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Francois Leroux D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Ed Patterson R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Chris Wells C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Joe Dziedzic L 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Glen Murray R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Dave Roche L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Chris Joseph D 0 0 1 0 -0.22
Neil Wilkinson D 0 0 1 0 -0.45
Dmitri Mironov D 0 0 2 -1 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Wregget W 40 36 4 .900 60:00 0.60