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Saturday, November 16, 1996 · Civic Arena

Rangers 8 at Penguins 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 89OVR Adam Graves Rangers First Star 1G · 2A · 7 SOG C 98OVR Mark Messier Rangers Second Star 2G · 8 SOG R 89OVR Alex Kovalev Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 18:59 Ian Moran (1) Jaromir Jagr (5), Petr Nedved (7) NYR 0 – 1 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 0:10 Adam Graves (8) Alexander Karpovtsev (9), Ulf Samuelsson (2) NYR 1 – 1 PIT
  2. 3:59 Alex Kovalev (6) Niklas Sundstrom (6) NYR 2 – 1 PIT
  3. 4:36 Darren Langdon (2) Sergei Nemchinov (7), Alex Kovalev (9) NYR 3 – 1 PIT
  4. 9:18 Wayne Gretzky (9) PPG Alexander Karpovtsev (10), Brian Noonan (6) NYR 4 – 1 PIT
  5. 10:36 Niklas Sundstrom (7) PPG Brian Leetch (14), Wayne Gretzky (18) NYR 5 – 1 PIT
  6. 19:11 Mark Messier (6) PPG Luc Robitaille (9) NYR 6 – 1 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 0:13 Petr Nedved (7) Jaromir Jagr (6), Dmitri Mironov (5) NYR 6 – 2 PIT
  2. 5:32 Luc Robitaille (7) Adam Graves (6), Ulf Samuelsson (3) NYR 7 – 2 PIT
  3. 12:27 Mark Messier (7) Adam Graves (7) NYR 8 – 2 PIT
  4. 16:28 J.J. Daigneault (2) PPG Ron Francis (16), Mario Lemieux (15) NYR 8 – 3 PIT

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Adam Graves L 1 2 7 0 0 +1 0:00 2.38
Mark Messier C 2 0 8 0 0 +1 0:00 2.25
Alex Kovalev R 1 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Luc Robitaille L 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Niklas Sundstrom R 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Wayne Gretzky C 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.55
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.40
Darren Langdon L 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Brian Leetch D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Brian Noonan R 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Bruce Driver D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Daniel Goneau L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Doug Lidster D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Christian Dube C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Shane Churla R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.53
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.43
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 22 19 3 .864 60:00 -0.35

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Petr Nedved C 1 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Jaromir Jagr R 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Ron Francis C 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.85
Ian Moran D 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Mario Lemieux C 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Dmitri Mironov D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
J.J. Daigneault D 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.60
Dave Roche L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Petr Klima R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Dan Quinn C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Tomas Sandstrom R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Tyler Wright C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Craig Muni D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Glen Murray R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Kevin Hatcher D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Francois Leroux D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Chris Tamer D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -1.35
Shawn Antoski L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.42
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ken Wregget L 27 22 5 .815 30:36 -1.55
Patrick Lalime — 14 11 3 .786 29:24 -1.15