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Tuesday, October 8, 1996 · Hartford Civic Center

Penguins 3 at Whalers 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 92OVR Geoff Sanderson Whalers First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG C 66OVR Jeff O'Neill Whalers Second Star 2G · 8 SOG C 67OVR Andrei Nikolishin Capitals Third Star 3A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:20 Brian Glynn (1) PPG Geoff Sanderson (1), Andrei Nikolishin (1) PIT 0 – 1 HFD
  2. 11:10 Jeff O'Neill (1) Robert Kron (1) PIT 0 – 2 HFD
  3. 11:36 Kevin Hatcher (1) Mario Lemieux (2) PIT 1 – 2 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 9:05 Mario Lemieux (2) PPG Tomas Sandstrom (1), Ron Francis (1) PIT 2 – 2 HFD
  2. 11:57 Kevin Dineen (1) PPG Andrei Nikolishin (2) PIT 2 – 3 HFD
  3. 19:44 Geoff Sanderson (1) Kevin Dineen (1) PIT 2 – 4 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 5:03 Brendan Shanahan (1) SHG Andrew Cassels (2), Adam Burt (1) PIT 2 – 5 HFD
  2. 6:08 Chris Tamer (1) Petr Nedved (2) PIT 3 – 5 HFD
  3. 10:03 Geoff Sanderson (2) Steven Rice (1), Andrei Nikolishin (3) PIT 3 – 6 HFD
  4. 14:00 Jeff O'Neill (2) Alexander Godynyuk (1) PIT 3 – 7 HFD

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mario Lemieux C 1 1 8 0 0 -1 0:00 1.83
Kevin Hatcher D 1 0 6 0 0 +1 0:00 1.35
Chris Tamer D 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Petr Nedved C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Ron Francis C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Tomas Sandstrom R 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.40
Joe Mullen R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Glen Murray R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jaromir Jagr R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Joe Dziedzic L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Stefan Bergqvist D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dan Quinn C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
J.J. Daigneault D 0 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.38
Craig Muni D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Dave Roche L 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.60
Tyler Wright C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.68
Francois Leroux D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.68
Shawn Antoski L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tom Barrasso L 42 35 7 .833 60:00 -1.75

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Geoff Sanderson L 2 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.73
Jeff O'Neill C 2 0 8 0 0 +2 0:00 2.40
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 3 1 0 0 +2 0:00 2.25
Kevin Dineen R 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Brendan Shanahan L 1 0 7 0 0 0 0:00 1.28
Brian Glynn D 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.05
Robert Kron C 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Steven Rice R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Alexander Godynyuk D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Andrew Cassels C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Adam Burt D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.55
Paul Ranheim L 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.52
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Marek Malik D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Glen Wesley D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Sami Kapanen R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Mark Janssens C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Hnat Domenichelli L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke W 31 28 3 .903 60:00 0.55