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Saturday, December 7, 1996 · San Jose Arena

Lightning 4 at Sharks 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 61OVR Patrick Poulin Lightning First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG C 52OVR Ron Sutter Sharks Second Star 2G · 3 SOG L 81OVR Rob Zamuner Lightning Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 12:17 Ron Sutter (2) SHG Unassisted TBL 0 – 1 SJS

2nd Period

  1. 5:16 Alexander Selivanov (7) PPG John Cullen (16), Roman Hamrlik (10) TBL 1 – 1 SJS
  2. 13:09 Patrick Poulin (5) SHG Rob Zamuner (13) TBL 2 – 1 SJS

3rd Period

  1. 4:33 Owen Nolan (12) Darren Turcotte (7), Doug Bodger (5) TBL 2 – 2 SJS
  2. 10:28 Rob Zamuner (6) Chris Gratton (6) TBL 3 – 2 SJS
  3. 13:07 Ron Sutter (3) Todd Ewen (1), Todd Gill (13) TBL 3 – 3 SJS
  4. 19:13 Cory Cross (1) Patrick Poulin (7), Dino Ciccarelli (9) TBL 4 – 3 SJS

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Patrick Poulin L 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Rob Zamuner L 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.68
Cory Cross D 1 0 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.28
Chris Gratton C 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Roman Hamrlik D 0 1 6 0 0 -1 0:00 0.93
Dino Ciccarelli R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Alexander Selivanov R 1 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.68
John Cullen C 0 1 0 0 0 -2 0:00 0.33
Bill Houlder D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Mikael Andersson R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Daymond Langkow C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Brian Bradley C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Rudy Poeschek D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Drew Bannister D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Shawn Burr L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
David Shaw D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Craig Wolanin D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Brantt Myhres R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rick Tabaracci W 23 20 3 .870 60:00 -0.25

San Jose Sharks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ron Sutter C 2 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.88
Todd Gill D 0 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.22
Doug Bodger D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 1.08
Todd Ewen R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Darren Turcotte C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Owen Nolan R 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.60
Dody Wood C 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.23
Shean Donovan R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Viktor Kozlov C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Tony Granato R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Ulf Dahlen R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Greg Hawgood D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Jeff Friesen L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Al Iafrate D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Bernie Nicholls C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Marcus Ragnarsson D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Marty McSorley D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.53
Andrei Nazarov L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kelly Hrudey L 28 24 4 .857 59:37 -0.60