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Saturday, December 7, 1996 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Capitals 0 at Islanders 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 80OVR Tommy Salo Islanders First Star 24 SV · 1.000 L 82OVR Niklas Andersson Islanders Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG G 42OVR Jim Carey Bruins Third Star 21 SV · .955

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 4:22 Bryan Smolinski (3) Ziggy Palffy (13), Niklas Andersson (7) WSH 0 – 1 NYI
  2. 19:14 Niklas Andersson (2) Unassisted WSH 0 – 2 NYI

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Todd Krygier L 0 0 4 0 0.30
Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 5 -1 0.23
Kelly Miller L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Joe Reekie D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Jaroslav Svejkovsky R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Anson Carter R 0 0 2 0 0.00
Ken Klee D 0 0 2 0 0.00
Eric Charron D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Andrew Brunette L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Phil Housley D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Chris Simon L 0 0 1 0 -0.30
Craig Berube L 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Dale Hunter C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Mike Eagles L 0 0 0 0 -0.38
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Kevin Kaminski C 0 0 0 -1 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Carey L 22 21 1 .955 59:39 1.35

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Niklas Andersson L 1 1 1 +2 1.75
Ziggy Palffy R 0 1 3 +2 1.15
Bryan Smolinski C 1 0 2 +2 0.83
Travis Green C 0 0 5 0 0.38
Marty Mcinnis L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Brent Hughes L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Derek King L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Bryan McCabe D 0 0 0 +2 0.15
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Derek Armstrong C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Todd Bertuzzi R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Rich Pilon D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Dan Plante R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Kenny Jonsson D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Scott Lachance D 0 0 1 +1 -0.08
Paul Kruse L 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Bryan Berard D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Doug Houda D 0 0 0 0 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Salo W 24 24 0 1.000 60:00 2.40