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Sunday, October 27, 1996 · Madison Square Garden

Sabres 4 at Rangers 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 95OVR Wayne Gretzky Rangers First Star 1G · 3A · 6 SOG R 92OVR Niklas Sundstrom Rangers Second Star 1G · 2A · 1 SOG L 87OVR Luc Robitaille Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 10 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 11:51 Brian Leetch (2) PPG Luc Robitaille (7), Wayne Gretzky (10) BUF 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 13:25 Luc Robitaille (3) Wayne Gretzky (11), Niklas Sundstrom (3) BUF 0 – 2 NYR
  3. 16:56 Mark Messier (4) PPG Alex Kovalev (5), Adam Graves (5) BUF 0 – 3 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 1:33 Derek Plante (5) Matthew Barnaby (1), Garry Galley (5) BUF 1 – 3 NYR
  2. 5:41 Michal Grosek (2) Matthew Barnaby (2) BUF 2 – 3 NYR
  3. 13:26 Wayne Gretzky (5) Niklas Sundstrom (4), Alexander Karpovtsev (7) BUF 2 – 4 NYR
  4. 15:15 Patrick Flatley (2) Daniel Goneau (1), Sergei Nemchinov (4) BUF 2 – 5 NYR
  5. 19:42 Niklas Sundstrom (5) PPG Bruce Driver (5), Wayne Gretzky (12) BUF 2 – 6 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 14:12 Brian Holzinger (4) Pat LaFontaine (5), Darryl Shannon (2) BUF 3 – 6 NYR
  2. 15:52 Randy Burridge (1) Jason Dawe (5), Alexei Zhitnik (5) BUF 4 – 6 NYR

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Michal Grosek L 1 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 1.43
Matthew Barnaby R 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.40
Darryl Shannon D 0 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.23
Derek Plante C 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Pat LaFontaine C 0 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.00
Randy Burridge L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Alexei Zhitnik D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Brian Holzinger C 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Jason Dawe R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Garry Galley D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Michael Peca C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Richard Smehlik D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Anatoli Semenov C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mike Wilson D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Curtis Brown C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dixon Ward L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Bob Boughner D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Rob Ray R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Andrei Trefilov L 40 34 6 .850 59:22 -1.10

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Wayne Gretzky C 1 3 6 0 0 +1 0:00 3.23
Niklas Sundstrom R 1 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 2.23
Luc Robitaille L 1 1 10 0 0 -1 0:00 1.98
Mark Messier C 1 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.98
Patrick Flatley R 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Bruce Driver D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.78
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Daniel Goneau L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Brian Leetch D 1 0 4 0 0 -3 0:00 0.60
Adam Graves L 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.40
Alex Kovalev R 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.40
Jayson More D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Christian Dube C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Shane Churla R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.38
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Healy W 33 29 4 .879 60:00 -0.10