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Friday, February 23, 1996 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Lightning 3 at Islanders 2

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 76OVR John Cullen Lightning First Star 2G · 4 SOG G 70OVR Eric Fichaud Islanders Second Star 40 SV · .930 RC R 86OVR Alexander Selivanov Lightning Third Star 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:33 Marty Mcinnis (9) Martin Straka (23) TBL 0 – 1 NYI
  2. 13:54 John Cullen (12) PPG Alexander Selivanov (17), Bill Houlder (16) TBL 1 – 1 NYI
  3. 17:55 Patrick Flatley (7) Bob Sweeney (6) TBL 1 – 2 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 2:49 John Cullen (13) Alexander Selivanov (18), Cory Cross (9) TBL 2 – 2 NYI

3rd Period

No scoring

Overtime

  1. 4:45 Rob Zamuner (14) Brian Bellows (18), Brian Bradley (45) TBL 3 – 2 NYI

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
John Cullen C 2 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.95
Alexander Selivanov R 0 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.48
Brian Bellows L 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Rob Zamuner L 1 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Brian Bradley C 0 1 6 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Bill Houlder D 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Cory Cross D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Roman Hamrlik D 0 0 6 0 0 0 0:00 0.45
Shawn Burr L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Rudy Poeschek D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Jason Wiemer C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mikael Andersson R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Chris Gratton C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
John Tucker R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Petr Klima R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Chris Lipuma D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Enrico Ciccone D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Aaron Gavey C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Daren Puppa W 21 19 2 .905 64:45 0.40

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Patrick Flatley R 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Marty Mcinnis L 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Martin Straka C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Chris Luongo D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Derek King L 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Bryan McCabe D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Niklas Andersson L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Ziggy Palffy R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Alexander Semak C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Scott Lachance D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Brad Dalgarno R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Wendel Clark L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Chris Taylor C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dan Plante R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Rich Pilon D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Bob Sweeney C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.35
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Mathieu Schneider D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Eric Fichaud L 43 40 3 .930 64:45 1.75