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Wednesday, December 18, 1996 · Madison Square Garden

Kings 0 at Rangers 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 94OVR Mike Richter Rangers First Star 37 SV · 1.000 C 97OVR Wayne Gretzky Rangers Second Star 3A · 5 SOG L 89OVR Luc Robitaille Rangers Third Star 2G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:37 Luc Robitaille (12) PPG Wayne Gretzky (32), Alexander Karpovtsev (15) LAK 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 12:16 Brian Leetch (9) Wayne Gretzky (33), Niklas Sundstrom (10) LAK 0 – 2 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 3:16 Mark Messier (16) SHG Unassisted LAK 0 – 3 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 9:42 Luc Robitaille (13) Wayne Gretzky (34), Ulf Samuelsson (7) LAK 0 – 4 NYR

Los Angeles Kings

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Philippe Boucher D 0 0 6 0 0.45
Dmitri Khristich R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Kai Nurminen L 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Ian Laperriere R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Dan Bylsma L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Brent Grieve L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Vitali Yachmenev R 0 0 3 0 0.07
Matt Johnson L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Kevin Stevens L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Steven Finn D 0 0 4 -1 0.00
Vladimir Tsyplakov L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Rob Blake D 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Sean O'Donnell D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Neal Broten C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Jaroslav Modry D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Mattias Norstrom D 0 0 1 0 -0.22
Brad Smyth R 0 0 3 -2 -0.23
Ray Ferraro C 0 0 2 -3 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Byron Dafoe L 23 19 4 .826 60:00 -1.10

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Wayne Gretzky C 0 3 5 +2 2.55
Luc Robitaille L 2 0 3 +2 1.73
Mark Messier C 1 0 5 +1 1.28
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Brian Leetch D 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 1 0 +2 0.93
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 1 2 +2 0.93
Adam Graves L 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Alex Kovalev R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Patrick Flatley R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Daniel Goneau L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bill Berg L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Brian Noonan R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ryan Vandenbussche R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Doug Lidster D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 37 37 0 1.000 60:00 3.70