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Saturday, March 9, 1996 · Capital Centre

Rangers 6 at Capitals 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 98OVR Mark Messier Rangers First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG R 82OVR Alex Kovalev Rangers Second Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG G 74OVR Glenn Healy Rangers Third Star 24 SV · .960

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 12:48 Alex Kovalev (17) PPG Adam Graves (30), Mark Messier (48) NYR 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 15:03 Alexander Karpovtsev (2) PPG Brian Leetch (57), Luc Robitaille (40) NYR 2 – 0 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 0:57 Mark Messier (43) PPG Alex Kovalev (30), Alexander Karpovtsev (14) NYR 3 – 0 WSH
  2. 8:37 Alex Kovalev (18) PPG Luc Robitaille (41), Brian Leetch (58) NYR 4 – 0 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 4:57 Daniel Lacroix (1) Mark Messier (49) NYR 5 – 0 WSH
  2. 7:28 Craig Berube (2) PPG Michal Pivonka (47), Steve Konowalchuk (20) NYR 5 – 1 WSH
  3. 16:33 Ken Gernander (1) PPG Sergio Momesso (10), Doug Lidster (8) NYR 6 – 1 WSH

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mark Messier C 1 2 3 +1 2.38
Alex Kovalev R 2 1 3 0 2.20
Brian Leetch D 0 2 3 +1 1.63
Alexander Karpovtsev D 1 1 3 0 1.60
Luc Robitaille L 0 2 1 0 1.33
Ken Gernander R 1 0 1 0 0.83
Adam Graves L 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Daniel Lacroix C 1 0 1 +1 0.68
Doug Lidster D 0 1 2 0 0.48
Sergio Momesso L 0 1 0 0 0.10
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bill Berg L 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Mattias Norstrom D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Ian Laperriere R 0 0 0 0 -0.45
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 -0.53
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 -1.43
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Healy W 25 24 1 .960 60:00 1.65

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Michal Pivonka C 0 1 2 0 0.78
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 5 0 0.38
Calle Johansson D 0 0 5 0 0.38
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 1 1 0 0.32
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 4 0 0.30
Pat Peake C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Joe Juneau C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Joe Reekie D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Peter Bondra R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Kelly Miller L 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Mike Eagles L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Ken Klee D 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Dale Hunter C 0 0 1 0 -0.22
Jeff Nelson C 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Jim Johnson D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Keith Jones R 0 0 0 0 -0.45
Craig Berube L 1 0 2 0 -0.53
Kevin Kaminski C 0 0 0 0 -0.98
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Olie Kolzig L 19 13 6 .684 59:40 -3.20