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Wednesday, December 11, 1996 · Madison Square Garden

Islanders 5 at Rangers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Ziggy Palffy Islanders First Star 2G · 1A · 6 SOG L 82OVR Niklas Andersson Islanders Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG L 89OVR Luc Robitaille Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:20 Niklas Sundstrom (12) Wayne Gretzky (28), Luc Robitaille (14) NYI 0 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 4:03 Bryan Berard (4) PPG Travis Green (12), Tommy Salo (1) NYI 1 – 1 NYR
  2. 5:14 Niklas Andersson (5) Bryan Berard (17), Ziggy Palffy (16) NYI 2 – 1 NYR
  3. 12:34 Bryan Smolinski (5) Niklas Andersson (11), Scott Lachance (3) NYI 3 – 1 NYR
  4. 17:16 Ziggy Palffy (19) Travis Green (13) NYI 4 – 1 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 3:16 Ziggy Palffy (20) PPG Bryan Smolinski (5), Kenny Jonsson (5) NYI 5 – 1 NYR
  2. 9:12 Bill Berg (4) Brian Noonan (9), Bruce Driver (10) NYI 5 – 2 NYR
  3. 15:29 Luc Robitaille (10) Darren Langdon (3), Sergei Nemchinov (11) NYI 5 – 3 NYR

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ziggy Palffy R 2 1 6 0 0 +1 0:00 2.73
Niklas Andersson L 1 1 3 0 0 +3 0:00 2.05
Bryan Smolinski C 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Bryan Berard D 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Travis Green C 0 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.33
Kenny Jonsson D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Scott Lachance D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Randy Wood R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Brent Hughes L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Derek King L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Bryan McCabe D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Doug Houda D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Derek Armstrong C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Marty Mcinnis L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Dan Plante R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Rich Pilon D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Paul Kruse L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Salo W 40 37 3 .925 60:00 1.45

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Luc Robitaille L 1 1 5 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Wayne Gretzky C 0 1 7 0 0 0 0:00 1.15
Niklas Sundstrom R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Bruce Driver D 0 1 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.93
Bill Berg L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Brian Noonan R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Doug Lidster D 0 0 1 0 0 +3 0:00 0.52
Darren Langdon L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.40
Brian Leetch D 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Adam Graves L 0 0 8 0 0 -3 0:00 0.15
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Patrick Flatley R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Daniel Goneau L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Christian Dube C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Alex Kovalev R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Healy L 30 25 5 .833 59:08 -1.25