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Friday, December 20, 1996 · Capital Centre

Sharks 2 at Capitals 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 87OVR Sergei Gonchar Capitals First Star 2G · 3 SOG C 73OVR Dale Hunter Capitals Second Star 2A · 2 SOG D 79OVR Marty McSorley Sharks Third Star 1G · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:09 Sergei Gonchar (7) Joe Juneau (14), Jason Allison (11) SJS 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 17:05 Marty McSorley (2) Unassisted SJS 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 18:24 Sergei Gonchar (8) Andrei Nikolishin (11), Dale Hunter (11) SJS 1 – 2 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 14:23 Viktor Kozlov (6) Michal Sykora (5) SJS 2 – 2 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 17:33 Phil Housley (7) Dale Hunter (12), Steve Konowalchuk (11) SJS 2 – 3 WSH

San Jose Sharks

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Marty McSorley D 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Viktor Kozlov C 1 0 2 0 0.90
Michal Sykora D 0 1 0 +2 0.78
Ray Whitney L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Doug Bodger D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Tony Granato R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Greg Hawgood D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Bernie Nicholls C 0 0 2 0 0.00
Ron Sutter C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Tim Hunter R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ulf Dahlen R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Shean Donovan R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Andrei Nazarov L 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Darren Turcotte C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Jeff Friesen L 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Marcus Ragnarsson D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Todd Gill D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Owen Nolan R 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Chris Terreri L 32 29 3 .906 59:15 0.65

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Sergei Gonchar D 2 0 3 +1 1.88
Dale Hunter C 0 2 2 +2 1.70
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 1 3 +1 0.85
Jason Allison C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Joe Juneau C 0 1 3 0 0.85
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Phil Housley D 1 0 1 -1 0.68
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 5 +1 0.53
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Kelly Miller L 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Chris Simon L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Todd Krygier L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Calle Johansson D 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Joe Reekie D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Michal Pivonka C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Craig Berube L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Ken Klee D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Peter Bondra R 0 0 0 0 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Carey W 21 19 2 .905 60:00 0.40