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Saturday, November 23, 1996 · Capital Centre

Devils 3 at Capitals 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 97OVR Peter Bondra Capitals First Star 2G · 2 SOG R 85OVR Steve Thomas Devils Second Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG D 87OVR Sergei Gonchar Capitals Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:17 Shawn Chambers (2) Steve Thomas (7), Denis Pederson (2) NJD 1 – 0 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 4:42 Steve Thomas (3) Bobby Holik (12) NJD 2 – 0 WSH
  2. 4:52 Peter Bondra (8) Chris Simon (4), Ken Klee (3) NJD 2 – 1 WSH
  3. 13:06 Steve Konowalchuk (5) Kelly Miller (3), Dale Hunter (8) NJD 2 – 2 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 6:54 Phil Housley (6) PPG Sergei Gonchar (7), Andrei Nikolishin (9) NJD 2 – 3 WSH
  2. 9:24 John MacLean (6) PPG Brian Rolston (6), Steve Thomas (8) NJD 3 – 3 WSH
  3. 16:26 Peter Bondra (9) Sergei Gonchar (8) NJD 3 – 4 WSH

New Jersey Devils

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Steve Thomas R 1 2 4 +2 1.93
Bobby Holik C 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Shawn Chambers D 1 0 3 0 0.83
Denis Pederson C 0 1 2 +1 0.78
Brian Rolston R 0 1 3 -2 0.55
John MacLean R 1 0 3 -2 0.53
Randy Mckay R 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Dave Andreychuk L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Jason Smith D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Scott Niedermayer D 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Lyle Odelein D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Mike Peluso L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bill Guerin R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Sergei Brylin L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Bobby Carpenter C 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Valeri Zelepukin L 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Kevin Dean D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Scott Stevens D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Brodeur L 23 19 4 .826 59:11 -1.10

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Peter Bondra R 2 0 2 +2 1.95
Sergei Gonchar D 0 2 2 +1 1.40
Ken Klee D 0 1 2 +3 1.22
Steve Konowalchuk L 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Kelly Miller L 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Phil Housley D 1 0 3 -2 0.68
Dale Hunter C 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Chris Simon L 0 1 1 +1 0.55
Craig Berube L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Stefan Ustorf L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Mike Eagles L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Eric Charron D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Todd Krygier L 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Kevin Kaminski C 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Jason Allison C 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Joe Reekie D 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 1 +2 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Carey W 32 29 3 .906 60:00 0.65