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Friday, December 6, 1996 · Madison Square Garden

Maple Leafs 5 at Rangers 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 95OVR Wayne Gretzky Rangers First Star 2G · 2A · 6 SOG L 53OVR Bill Berg Rangers Second Star 2G · 7 SOG L 89OVR Adam Graves Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:46 Mark Messier (15) Adam Graves (11), Alex Kovalev (13) TOR 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 7:58 Bill Berg (1) Wayne Gretzky (23), Darren Langdon (2) TOR 0 – 2 NYR
  3. 8:53 Freddy Modin (2) Darby Hendrickson (2), Kirk Muller (8) TOR 1 – 2 NYR
  4. 10:25 Wayne Gretzky (11) Luc Robitaille (12), Niklas Sundstrom (8) TOR 1 – 3 NYR
  5. 16:30 Darby Hendrickson (3) Kirk Muller (9), Tie Domi (6) TOR 2 – 3 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 6:14 Adam Graves (10) Mark Messier (14), Jeff Beukeboom (3) TOR 2 – 4 NYR
  2. 8:59 Mats Sundin (17) PPG Dave Ellett (4), Marcel Cousineau (1) TOR 3 – 4 NYR
  3. 16:58 Doug Gilmour (6) Wendel Clark (7) TOR 4 – 4 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 3:07 Todd Warriner (2) Mike Craig (7) TOR 5 – 4 NYR
  2. 16:57 Wayne Gretzky (12) Ulf Samuelsson (5) TOR 5 – 5 NYR
  3. 19:33 Bill Berg (2) Wayne Gretzky (24) TOR 5 – 6 NYR

Toronto Maple Leafs

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Darby Hendrickson C 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Kirk Muller L 0 2 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.10
Freddy Modin L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Doug Gilmour C 1 0 6 0 0 -2 0:00 0.90
Todd Warriner L 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Wendel Clark L 0 1 5 0 0 -2 0:00 0.55
Tie Domi R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.55
Mats Sundin C 1 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 0.53
Matt Martin D 0 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 0.52
Mike Craig R 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Dmitry Yushkevich D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Dave Ellett D 0 1 1 0 0 -3 0:00 0.25
Kelly Fairchild C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
John Craighead R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jamie Heward D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jeff Ware D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jamie Baker C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Larry Murphy D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Marcel Cousineau L 43 37 6 .860 59:00 -0.80

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Wayne Gretzky C 2 2 6 0 0 +3 0:00 3.65
Bill Berg L 2 0 7 0 0 +2 0:00 1.95
Adam Graves L 1 1 7 0 0 0 0:00 1.90
Mark Messier C 1 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.45
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Alex Kovalev R 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Brian Leetch D 0 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.45
Darren Langdon L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.40
Luc Robitaille L 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.25
Patrick Flatley R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Daniel Goneau L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Doug Lidster D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bruce Driver D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Brian Noonan R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 33 28 5 .848 60:00 -0.95