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Wednesday, October 16, 1996 · Madison Square Garden

Penguins 1 at Rangers 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 89OVR Alex Kovalev Rangers First Star 3G · 6 SOG D 80OVR Alexander Karpovtsev Rangers Second Star 3A · 1 SOG G 94OVR Mike Richter Rangers Third Star 29 SV · .967

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:16 Alex Kovalev (1) Mark Messier (5), Jeff Beukeboom (1) PIT 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 13:13 Sergei Nemchinov (2) PPG Alexander Karpovtsev (4), Patrick Flatley (2) PIT 0 – 2 NYR
  3. 17:55 Petr Nedved (2) Dave Roche (2), Ron Francis (5) PIT 1 – 2 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 2:16 Niklas Sundstrom (2) Bruce Driver (3), Luc Robitaille (2) PIT 1 – 3 NYR
  2. 11:03 Daniel Goneau (3) Sergei Nemchinov (2), Patrick Flatley (3) PIT 1 – 4 NYR
  3. 11:13 Alex Kovalev (2) Mark Messier (6), Brian Leetch (4) PIT 1 – 5 NYR
  4. 14:52 Niklas Sundstrom (3) Wayne Gretzky (5), Bill Berg (1) PIT 1 – 6 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 9:02 Alex Kovalev (3) PPG Alexander Karpovtsev (5), Luc Robitaille (3) PIT 1 – 7 NYR
  2. 18:31 Christian Dube (1) PPG Alexander Karpovtsev (6), Wayne Gretzky (6) PIT 1 – 8 NYR

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Petr Nedved C 1 0 6 0 0 -3 0:00 0.75
Dave Roche L 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Ron Francis C 0 1 4 0 0 -3 0:00 0.48
Joe Mullen R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Dan Quinn C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Shawn Antoski L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mario Lemieux C 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Ed Patterson R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Dmitri Mironov D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Tyler Wright C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Chris Tamer D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Craig Muni D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
J.J. Daigneault D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Glen Murray R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Francois Leroux D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Jaromir Jagr R 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Alek Stojanov R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Kevin Hatcher D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Wregget — 17 14 3 .824 28:47 -0.85
Tom Barrasso L 31 26 5 .839 31:13 -1.15

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alex Kovalev R 3 0 6 0 0 +2 0:00 2.70
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 3 1 0 0 +2 0:00 2.25
Niklas Sundstrom R 2 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.03
Wayne Gretzky C 0 2 6 0 0 +2 0:00 2.00
Sergei Nemchinov L 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.83
Mark Messier C 0 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.78
Patrick Flatley R 0 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.63
Luc Robitaille L 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.40
Brian Leetch D 0 1 5 0 0 +2 0:00 1.30
Daniel Goneau L 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Christian Dube C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Bruce Driver D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Bill Berg L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Adam Graves L 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Jayson More D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Darren Langdon L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 30 29 1 .967 60:00 2.15