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Saturday, December 14, 1996 · Continental Airlines Arena

Canadiens 3 at Devils 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 85OVR Brian Savage Canadiens First Star 3A · 3 SOG G 88OVR Jocelyn Thibault Canadiens Second Star 29 SV · .967 R 91OVR Stephane Richer Canadiens Third Star 2G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:10 Stephane Richer (10) Brian Savage (17), Mark Recchi (21) MTL 1 – 0 NJD
  2. 10:38 John MacLean (12) Valeri Zelepukin (12), Martin Brodeur (3) MTL 1 – 1 NJD
  3. 12:02 Patrik Elias (2) Unassisted MTL 1 – 2 NJD
  4. 18:02 Stephane Richer (11) Brian Savage (18), Darcy Tucker (2) MTL 2 – 2 NJD

2nd Period

  1. 13:29 Bobby Carpenter (2) Scott Stevens (7) MTL 2 – 3 NJD
  2. 17:27 Darcy Tucker (2) PPG Stephane Quintal (7), Brian Savage (19) MTL 3 – 3 NJD

3rd Period

No scoring

Overtime

No scoring

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brian Savage L 0 3 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.40
Stephane Richer R 2 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.03
Darcy Tucker R 1 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Stephane Quintal D 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Mark Recchi R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Pierre Sevigny L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Chris Murray R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Sebastien Bordeleau C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Peter Popovic D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Murray Baron D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Turner Stevenson R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Valeri Bure R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Scott Thornton L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
David Wilkie D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Vincent Damphousse C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Martin Rucinsky L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Pat Jablonski — 13 11 2 .846 12:02 -0.40
Jocelyn Thibault T 30 29 1 .967 52:58 2.15

New Jersey Devils

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Patrik Elias C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Bobby Carpenter C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Scott Stevens D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
John MacLean R 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Valeri Zelepukin L 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Brian Rolston R 0 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 0.53
Lyle Odelein D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Jason Smith D 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Bill Guerin R 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Bobby Holik C 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Dave Andreychuk L 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Steve Sullivan L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Randy Mckay R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Ken Daneyko D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Denis Pederson C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Shawn Chambers D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jay Pandolfo L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Scott Niedermayer D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Martin Brodeur T 21 18 3 .857 65:00 -0.45