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Saturday, March 23, 1996 · FleetCenter

Rangers 5 at Bruins 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 98OVR Mark Messier Rangers First Star 2G · 2A · 3 SOG R 68OVR Steve Heinze Bruins Second Star 3G · 4 SOG R 81OVR Alex Kovalev Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:35 Mark Messier (44) Jeff Beukeboom (10), Brian Leetch (59) NYR 1 – 0 BOS
  2. 14:52 Adam Graves (21) Brian Leetch (60), Mark Messier (51) NYR 2 – 0 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 12:59 Luc Robitaille (20) PPG Brian Leetch (61), Mark Messier (52) NYR 3 – 0 BOS
  2. 17:15 Steve Heinze (12) Dave Reid (16), Ron Sutter (2) NYR 3 – 1 BOS
  3. 19:37 Steve Heinze (13) Jon Rohloff (9), Todd Elik (29) NYR 3 – 2 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 3:07 Steve Heinze (14) Ray Bourque (50) NYR 3 – 3 BOS
  2. 8:15 Ray Bourque (20) PPG Jozef Stumpel (33), Todd Elik (30) NYR 3 – 4 BOS
  3. 10:06 Mark Messier (45) Alex Kovalev (31) NYR 4 – 4 BOS
  4. 12:22 Alex Kovalev (19) Adam Graves (32), Bruce Driver (32) NYR 5 – 4 BOS

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mark Messier C 2 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 3.43
Alex Kovalev R 1 1 2 0 0 +4 0:00 2.13
Brian Leetch D 0 3 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.95
Adam Graves L 1 1 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.90
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 1.08
Luc Robitaille L 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.60
Bruce Driver D 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Daniel Lacroix C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.00
Bill Berg L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Sergio Momesso L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jari Kurri R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Shane Churla R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Marty McSorley D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 32 28 4 .875 60:00 -0.20

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Steve Heinze R 3 0 4 0 0 +3 0:00 3.00
Todd Elik L 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.33
Ray Bourque D 1 1 2 0 0 -3 0:00 1.08
Jozef Stumpel L 0 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.00
Jon Rohloff D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.55
Adam Oates C 0 0 7 0 0 0 0:00 0.53
Ron Sutter C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Dave Reid L 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.40
Shawn McEachern L 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Don Sweeney D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Tim Sweeney R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Marc Potvin R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Rick Zombo D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Philip Von Stefenelli D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Kyle McLaren D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ted Donato L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Steve Staios D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Sandy Moger R 0 0 0 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bill Ranford L 19 14 5 .737 59:06 -2.35