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Sunday, October 6, 1996 · Madison Square Garden

Panthers 5 at Rangers 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 80OVR Rob Niedermayer Panthers First Star 2G · 4 SOG C 63OVR Brian Skrudland Panthers Second Star 2G · 2 SOG G 92OVR John Vanbiesbrouck Panthers Third Star 34 SV · .944

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:41 Brian Skrudland (1) Tom Fitzgerald (1), Paul Laus (1) FLA 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 7:37 Rob Niedermayer (1) Gord Murphy (1) FLA 2 – 0 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 12:33 Niklas Sundstrom (1) PPG Bruce Driver (1), Wayne Gretzky (1) FLA 2 – 1 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 5:24 Patrick Flatley (1) Brian Leetch (1), Adam Graves (1) FLA 2 – 2 NYR
  2. 6:20 Brian Skrudland (2) Bill Lindsay (3) FLA 3 – 2 NYR
  3. 17:03 Scott Mellanby (2) Gord Murphy (2) FLA 4 – 2 NYR
  4. 17:46 Rob Niedermayer (2) Johan Garpenlov (1), Scott Mellanby (1) FLA 5 – 2 NYR

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rob Niedermayer C 2 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.10
Brian Skrudland C 2 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.95
Scott Mellanby R 1 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Gord Murphy D 0 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.78
Johan Garpenlov L 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.85
Paul Laus D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.85
Bill Lindsay L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Robert Svehla D 0 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Stu Barnes C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Mike Hough L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Ed Jovanovski D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Radek Dvorak R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Brad Smyth R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dave Lowry L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Martin Straka C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Terry Carkner D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 -0.97
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Vanbiesbrouck W 36 34 2 .944 60:00 1.90

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Niklas Sundstrom R 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Brian Leetch D 0 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.78
Adam Graves L 0 1 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Patrick Flatley R 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Wayne Gretzky C 0 1 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.55
Bruce Driver D 0 1 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Luc Robitaille L 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Daniel Goneau L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Bill Berg L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Alex Kovalev R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Sergio Momesso L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Doug Lidster D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.60
Mark Messier C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter L 29 24 5 .828 60:00 -1.35