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Wednesday, November 27, 1996 · McNichols Sports Arena

Rangers 5 at Avalanche 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 64OVR Patrick Flatley Rangers First Star 2G · 3 SOG C 98OVR Mark Messier Rangers Second Star 2G · 5 SOG C 63OVR Stephane Yelle Avalanche Third Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:25 Mike Ricci (2) Stephane Yelle (8), Rene Corbet (5) NYR 0 – 1 COL

2nd Period

  1. 10:01 Mark Messier (13) Alex Kovalev (11), Adam Graves (10) NYR 1 – 1 COL
  2. 10:39 Patrick Flatley (4) Darren Langdon (1), Wayne Gretzky (20) NYR 2 – 1 COL
  3. 19:40 Mark Messier (14) SHG Unassisted NYR 3 – 1 COL

3rd Period

  1. 4:17 Patrick Flatley (5) Unassisted NYR 4 – 1 COL
  2. 16:42 Stephane Yelle (3) Uwe Krupp (7) NYR 4 – 2 COL
  3. 19:23 Niklas Sundstrom (9) Brian Leetch (20) NYR 5 – 2 COL

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Patrick Flatley R 2 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.03
Mark Messier C 2 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.03
Wayne Gretzky C 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Niklas Sundstrom R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Darren Langdon L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Brian Leetch D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Adam Graves L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Alex Kovalev R 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Doug Lidster D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Bruce Driver D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Christian Dube C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Luc Robitaille L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Brian Noonan R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.08
Daniel Goneau L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 33 31 2 .939 60:00 1.60

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Stephane Yelle C 1 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.90
Mike Ricci C 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Rene Corbet L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Uwe Krupp D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Adam Deadmarsh R 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Scott Young R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Sandis Ozolinsh D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Alexei Gusarov D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jon Klemm D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Peter Forsberg C 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Mike Keane R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Adam Foote D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Brent Severyn L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Joe Sakic C 0 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.22
Eric Lacroix L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Valeri Kamensky L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Sylvain Lefebvre D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Keith Jones R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Patrick Roy L 25 21 4 .840 59:22 -0.90