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Saturday, March 30, 1996 · Hartford Civic Center

Islanders 1 at Whalers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 88OVR Andrei Nikolishin Whalers First Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG R 63OVR Sami Kapanen Whalers Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG RC G 92OVR Sean Burke Whalers Third Star 25 SV · .962

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 17:34 Sami Kapanen (5) Paul Ranheim (19), Andrei Nikolishin (31) NYI 0 – 1 HFD
  2. 19:12 Ziggy Palffy (39) PPG Marty Mcinnis (28), Travis Green (41) NYI 1 – 1 HFD

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 17:00 Andrei Nikolishin (14) Sami Kapanen (4), Paul Ranheim (20) NYI 1 – 2 HFD
  2. 18:56 Brendan Shanahan (40) Jeff O'Neill (18) NYI 1 – 3 HFD

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Marty Mcinnis L 0 1 4 0 0.93
Ziggy Palffy R 1 0 6 -2 0.75
Travis Green C 0 1 2 -3 0.33
Darby Hendrickson C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Pat Conacher L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Alexander Semak C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jarrett Deuling L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Kenny Jonsson D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Chris Luongo D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Dan Plante R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Patrick Flatley R 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Niklas Andersson L 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Scott Lachance D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Derek Armstrong C 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Todd Bertuzzi R 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Bryan McCabe D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Jason Strudwick D 0 0 0 0 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Eric Fichaud L 32 29 3 .906 60:00 0.65

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Andrei Nikolishin C 1 1 4 +2 1.98
Sami Kapanen R 1 1 4 +2 1.98
Paul Ranheim L 0 2 1 +2 1.63
Brendan Shanahan L 1 0 3 +1 1.13
Jeff O'Neill C 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 6 0 0.45
Glen Featherstone D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Brad McCrimmon D 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Nelson Emerson R 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Jeff Brown D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Steven Rice R 0 0 4 0 0.15
Adam Burt D 0 0 3 +1 0.08
Glen Wesley D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Scott Daniels L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Andrew Cassels C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mark Janssens C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Kelly Chase R 0 0 0 0 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke W 26 25 1 .962 60:00 1.75