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Wednesday, December 11, 1996 · Hartford Civic Center

Panthers 2 at Whalers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 89OVR Keith Primeau Whalers First Star 2G · 2 SOG R 74OVR Steven Rice Whalers Second Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG R 67OVR Nelson Emerson Whalers Third Star 2A · 7 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 0:32 Bill Lindsay (6) Radek Dvorak (8) FLA 1 – 0 HFD
  2. 17:23 Dave Lowry (7) Ray Sheppard (12), Martin Straka (11) FLA 2 – 0 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 0:34 Keith Primeau (9) Gerald Diduck (4), Nelson Emerson (8) FLA 2 – 1 HFD
  2. 5:42 Keith Primeau (10) Steven Rice (6), Nelson Emerson (9) FLA 2 – 2 HFD
  3. 6:32 Gerald Diduck (1) Jeff O'Neill (8) FLA 2 – 3 HFD
  4. 17:33 Paul Coffey (3) Mark Janssens (2), Kevin Dineen (12) FLA 2 – 4 HFD
  5. 18:14 Steven Rice (5) Paul Coffey (5) FLA 2 – 5 HFD

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Bill Lindsay L 1 0 4 -1 0.90
Dave Lowry L 1 0 2 -1 0.75
Ray Sheppard R 0 1 3 -1 0.70
Martin Straka C 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Radek Dvorak R 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Mike Hough L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Scott Mellanby R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Jody Hull R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 0 2 0 0.00
Gord Murphy D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Per Gustafsson D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Jason Podollan C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Chris Wells C 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Terry Carkner D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Paul Laus D 0 0 1 -1 -0.45
Robert Svehla D 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Ed Jovanovski D 0 0 1 -3 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mark Fitzpatrick L 30 26 4 .867 59:30 -0.40

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Keith Primeau C 2 0 2 +2 1.95
Steven Rice R 1 1 5 +1 1.90
Nelson Emerson R 0 2 7 +1 1.78
Gerald Diduck D 1 1 1 +2 1.75
Paul Coffey D 1 1 2 +2 1.68
Mark Janssens C 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Kevin Dineen R 0 1 3 0 0.85
Jeff O'Neill C 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Marek Malik D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Robert Kron C 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Andrew Cassels C 0 0 4 0 0.30
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Paul Ranheim L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Jeff Daniels L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Alexander Godynyuk D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Adam Burt D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Curtis Leschyshyn D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Stu Grimson L 0 0 0 0 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jason Muzzatti W 30 28 2 .933 60:00 1.30