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Monday, December 9, 1996 · Madison Square Garden

Coyotes 2 at Rangers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 95OVR Wayne Gretzky Rangers First Star 3A · 1 SOG D 99OVR Brian Leetch Rangers Second Star 2A · 4 SOG R 92OVR Niklas Sundstrom Rangers Third Star 2G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:10 Niklas Sundstrom (10) Luc Robitaille (13), Brian Leetch (23) PHX 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 3:07 Dallas Drake (6) Igor Korolev (2), Jeremy Roenick (12) PHX 1 – 1 NYR
  3. 18:45 Niklas Sundstrom (11) Brian Leetch (24), Wayne Gretzky (25) PHX 1 – 2 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 0:47 Bill Berg (3) Wayne Gretzky (26), Patrick Flatley (6) PHX 1 – 3 NYR
  2. 2:07 Oleg Tverdovsky (6) PPG Cliff Ronning (6), Deron Quint (5) PHX 2 – 3 NYR
  3. 2:26 Alex Kovalev (8) Sergei Nemchinov (10), Brian Noonan (8) PHX 2 – 4 NYR
  4. 6:06 Daniel Goneau (10) PPG Alexander Karpovtsev (13), Wayne Gretzky (27) PHX 2 – 5 NYR

3rd Period

No scoring

Phoenix Coyotes

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Oleg Tverdovsky D 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Cliff Ronning C 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Dallas Drake R 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Jeremy Roenick C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Deron Quint D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Igor Korolev C 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Teppo Numminen D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Shane Doan R 0 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.23
Mike Gartner R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Bob Corkum C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Kris King L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Keith Tkachuk L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Brad McCrimmon D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Craig Janney C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Darrin Shannon L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jim Johnson D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Dave Manson D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.60
Jim McKenzie L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Nikolai Khabibulin L 20 17 3 .850 40:00 -0.55
Darcy Wakaluk — 7 5 2 .714 20:00 -1.00

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Wayne Gretzky C 0 3 1 0 0 +2 0:00 2.25
Brian Leetch D 0 2 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.85
Niklas Sundstrom R 2 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.80
Bill Berg L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Luc Robitaille L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Patrick Flatley R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Brian Noonan R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Alex Kovalev R 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.83
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Daniel Goneau L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.75
Bruce Driver D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Doug Lidster D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Adam Graves L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Christian Dube C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 33 31 2 .939 60:00 1.60