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Saturday, December 21, 1996 · Hartford Civic Center

Lightning 5 at Whalers 6

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 88OVR Glen Wesley Whalers First Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG C 89OVR Andrew Cassels Whalers Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG L 61OVR Patrick Poulin Lightning Third Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:12 Dino Ciccarelli (16) PPG Unassisted TBL 1 – 0 HFD
  2. 12:26 Brian Bradley (7) Dino Ciccarelli (11), Patrick Poulin (8) TBL 2 – 0 HFD
  3. 13:06 Steven Rice (9) Jeff O'Neill (9), Curtis Leschyshyn (10) TBL 2 – 1 HFD
  4. 18:59 John Cullen (8) Patrick Poulin (9), Dino Ciccarelli (12) TBL 3 – 1 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 1:32 Glen Wesley (2) PPG Steven Rice (7) TBL 3 – 2 HFD
  2. 3:22 Geoff Sanderson (20) Andrew Cassels (21), Marek Malik (3) TBL 3 – 3 HFD
  3. 6:14 Patrick Poulin (6) PPG Chris Gratton (9), John Cullen (20) TBL 4 – 3 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 3:31 Geoff Sanderson (21) PPG Kevin Dineen (14), Andrew Cassels (22) TBL 4 – 4 HFD
  2. 8:21 Daymond Langkow (2) Rob Zamuner (18), Chris Gratton (10) TBL 5 – 4 HFD
  3. 9:18 Andrew Cassels (9) Kevin Dineen (15), Glen Wesley (11) TBL 5 – 5 HFD

Overtime

  1. 2:11 Robert Kron (4) Glen Wesley (12), Paul Ranheim (5) TBL 5 – 6 HFD

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Patrick Poulin L 1 2 5 0 0 0 0:00 2.38
Dino Ciccarelli R 1 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 2.00
John Cullen C 1 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.45
Chris Gratton C 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.10
Brian Bradley C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Daymond Langkow C 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Rob Zamuner L 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Roman Hamrlik D 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Alexander Selivanov R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Craig Wolanin D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Paul Brousseau R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Rudy Poeschek D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
David Shaw D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Brantt Myhres R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Bill Houlder D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Allan Egeland C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Cory Cross D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.60
Drew Bannister D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.98
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rick Tabaracci L 22 19 3 .864 38:49 -0.35
Corey Schwab — 13 10 3 .769 23:22 -1.25

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Glen Wesley D 1 2 4 0 0 +1 0:00 2.45
Andrew Cassels C 1 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.38
Geoff Sanderson L 2 0 6 0 0 +1 0:00 1.95
Steven Rice R 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Kevin Dineen R 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.87
Paul Ranheim L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Jeff O'Neill C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Marek Malik D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.78
Robert Kron C 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Curtis Leschyshyn D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Nelson Emerson R 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Kevin Haller D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Hnat Domenichelli L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Mark Janssens C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Stu Grimson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Keith Primeau C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Glen Featherstone D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Adam Burt D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jason Muzzatti W 32 27 5 .844 62:11 -1.05