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Tuesday, December 17, 1996 · Hartford Civic Center

Blues 3 at Whalers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 54OVR Nelson Emerson Whalers First Star 3A · 6 SOG R 77OVR Steven Rice Whalers Second Star 2G · 2 SOG R 83OVR Joe Murphy Blues Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:39 Joe Murphy (7) Pierre Turgeon (19), Stephane Matteau (10) STL 1 – 0 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 13:23 Keith Primeau (11) PPG Nelson Emerson (11), Robert Kron (6) STL 1 – 1 HFD
  2. 14:20 Al MacInnis (9) Unassisted STL 2 – 1 HFD
  3. 19:00 Steven Rice (7) PPG Curtis Leschyshyn (8), Nelson Emerson (12) STL 2 – 2 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 1:53 Pierre Turgeon (4) PPG Brett Hull (16), Joe Murphy (6) STL 3 – 2 HFD
  2. 7:08 Steven Rice (8) Keith Primeau (9), Nelson Emerson (13) STL 3 – 3 HFD
  3. 12:43 Kevin Dineen (8) PPG Curtis Leschyshyn (9), Andrew Cassels (20) STL 3 – 4 HFD
  4. 19:58 Andrew Cassels (8) Kevin Dineen (13) STL 3 – 5 HFD

St. Louis Blues

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Joe Murphy R 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Pierre Turgeon C 1 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.75
Al MacInnis D 1 0 7 0 0 0 0:00 1.28
Stephane Matteau L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.55
Brett Hull R 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.40
Ricard Persson D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Marc Bergevin D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Jamal Mayers R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Harry York C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Igor Kravchuk D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Geoff Courtnall L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Tony Twist L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Craig MacTavish C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Peter Zezel C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Alexander Vasilevskii R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Libor Zabransky D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Chris Pronger D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Jim Campbell R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jon Casey L 26 22 4 .846 59:13 -0.80

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Nelson Emerson R 0 3 6 0 0 +1 0:00 2.33
Steven Rice R 2 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.80
Kevin Dineen R 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.68
Keith Primeau C 1 1 5 0 0 +2 0:00 1.60
Andrew Cassels C 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Curtis Leschyshyn D 0 2 1 0 0 -1 0:00 1.18
Robert Kron C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Marek Malik D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Stu Grimson L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Kevin Haller D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mark Janssens C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jeff O'Neill C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Alexander Godynyuk D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Glen Featherstone D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Paul Ranheim L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jeff Daniels L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Adam Burt D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jason Muzzatti W 29 26 3 .897 60:00 0.35