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Thursday, April 4, 1996 · Civic Arena

Capitals 2 at Penguins 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 99OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins First Star 2G · 4 SOG D 62OVR Corey Foster Penguins Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG C 95OVR Michal Pivonka Capitals Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:41 Corey Foster (2) PPG Bryan Smolinski (37), Kevin Miller (24) WSH 0 – 1 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 3:26 Michal Pivonka (16) Stefan Ustorf (10), Peter Bondra (27) WSH 1 – 1 PIT
  2. 11:56 Mario Lemieux (65) Kevin Miller (25), Francois Leroux (9) WSH 1 – 2 PIT
  3. 13:25 Calle Johansson (10) Michal Pivonka (62), Peter Bondra (28) WSH 2 – 2 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 18:05 Mario Lemieux (66) Bryan Smolinski (38), Corey Foster (2) WSH 2 – 3 PIT
  2. 19:06 Chris Tamer (3) Neil Wilkinson (13), Ron Francis (90) WSH 2 – 4 PIT

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Michal Pivonka C 1 1 3 0 1.60
Peter Bondra R 0 2 1 0 1.33
Calle Johansson D 1 0 4 0 1.05
Stefan Ustorf L 0 1 0 0 0.63
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 4 +1 0.45
Joe Juneau C 0 0 6 -1 0.30
Kelly Miller L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Andrew Brunette L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Jeff Nelson C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Todd Krygier L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mike Eagles L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 3 -1 -0.08
Dale Hunter C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Martin Gendron R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 2 0 -0.15
Joe Reekie D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Kevin Kaminski C 0 0 0 -1 -0.45
Jim Johnson D 0 0 0 -1 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Carey L 17 14 3 .824 59:54 -0.85

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mario Lemieux C 2 0 4 0 1.80
Corey Foster D 1 1 1 +1 1.60
Kevin Miller C 0 2 2 +1 1.55
Bryan Smolinski C 0 2 0 +1 1.40
Ron Francis C 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Neil Wilkinson D 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Francois Leroux D 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Chris Tamer D 1 0 1 +1 0.68
Chris Joseph D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Brad Lauer R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Dave Roche L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Alek Stojanov R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Joe Dziedzic L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dave Mcllwain C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Petr Nedved C 0 0 2 +1 0.00
Jaromir Jagr R 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Dmitri Mironov D 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
J.J. Daigneault D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tom Barrasso W 26 24 2 .923 60:00 0.90