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Saturday, March 2, 1996 · Hartford Civic Center

Panthers 1 at Whalers 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 91OVR Geoff Sanderson Whalers First Star 3G · 4 SOG G 92OVR Sean Burke Whalers Second Star 33 SV · .971 L 95OVR Brendan Shanahan Whalers Third Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:44 Brendan Shanahan (32) PPG Nelson Emerson (23), Jeff O'Neill (15) FLA 0 – 1 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 6:15 Robert Svehla (6) PPG Jason Woolley (23), Scott Mellanby (32) FLA 1 – 1 HFD
  2. 7:17 Geoff Sanderson (26) Glen Wesley (11), Andrew Cassels (33) FLA 1 – 2 HFD
  3. 16:46 Nelson Emerson (23) PPG Andrew Cassels (34), Jeff Brown (33) FLA 1 – 3 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 6:09 Geoff Sanderson (27) PPG Brendan Shanahan (25), Brian Glynn (4) FLA 1 – 4 HFD
  2. 9:23 Brendan Shanahan (33) Nelson Emerson (24) FLA 1 – 5 HFD
  3. 10:00 Geoff Sanderson (28) Andrew Cassels (35), Steven Rice (10) FLA 1 – 6 HFD
  4. 11:29 Sami Kapanen (4) Andrei Nikolishin (24), Paul Ranheim (14) FLA 1 – 7 HFD

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Robert Svehla D 1 0 1 -2 0.53
Scott Mellanby R 0 1 0 -1 0.48
Jason Woolley D 0 1 3 -3 0.40
Jesse Belanger C 0 0 7 -1 0.38
Ed Jovanovski D 0 0 4 0 0.15
Radek Dvorak R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Stu Barnes C 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Brad Smyth R 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 0 4 -1 0.00
Dave Lowry L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Jody Hull R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Brian Skrudland C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Rob Niedermayer C 0 0 3 -1 -0.08
Gord Murphy D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Johan Garpenlov L 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Terry Carkner D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Mike Hough L 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Paul Laus D 0 0 0 -2 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mark Fitzpatrick — 1 1 0 1.000 8:31 0.10
John Vanbiesbrouck L 27 20 7 .741 51:29 -3.25

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Geoff Sanderson L 3 0 4 +2 2.70
Brendan Shanahan L 2 1 3 +1 2.50
Nelson Emerson R 1 2 6 +1 2.30
Andrew Cassels C 0 3 1 +2 2.25
Jeff Brown D 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Sami Kapanen R 1 0 1 +1 0.98
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Brian Glynn D 0 1 0 +2 0.93
Glen Wesley D 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Steven Rice R 0 1 2 +1 0.78
Paul Ranheim L 0 1 2 +1 0.78
Jeff O'Neill C 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Adam Burt D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Glen Featherstone D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Scott Daniels L 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Mark Janssens C 0 0 2 0 -0.15
Kelly Chase R 0 0 0 0 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke W 34 33 1 .971 60:00 2.55