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Sunday, December 22, 1996 · Madison Square Garden

Panthers 3 at Rangers 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 98OVR Mark Messier Rangers First Star 2G · 2A · 7 SOG D 99OVR Brian Leetch Rangers Second Star 4A · 2 SOG R 91OVR Alex Kovalev Rangers Third Star 2G · 1A · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:24 Alex Kovalev (10) Adam Graves (13), Mark Messier (16) FLA 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 5:02 Ray Sheppard (14) Martin Straka (14) FLA 1 – 1 NYR
  3. 7:01 Niklas Sundstrom (14) Wayne Gretzky (38), Luc Robitaille (15) FLA 1 – 2 NYR
  4. 19:39 Alexander Karpovtsev (2) PPG Adam Graves (14), Brian Leetch (26) FLA 1 – 3 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 7:44 Mark Messier (17) SHG Brian Leetch (27) FLA 1 – 4 NYR
  2. 15:19 Mark Messier (18) Brian Leetch (28), Alex Kovalev (15) FLA 1 – 5 NYR
  3. 19:16 Alex Kovalev (11) Brian Leetch (29), Mark Messier (17) FLA 1 – 6 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 4:42 Niklas Sundstrom (15) Luc Robitaille (16) FLA 1 – 7 NYR
  2. 15:24 Ray Sheppard (15) Dave Lowry (9), Martin Straka (15) FLA 2 – 7 NYR
  3. 19:28 Ray Sheppard (16) PPG Martin Straka (16) FLA 3 – 7 NYR

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ray Sheppard R 3 0 7 -1 2.63
Martin Straka C 0 3 3 -1 1.95
Dave Lowry L 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Mike Hough L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Gord Murphy D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Radek Dvorak R 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Johan Garpenlov L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Paul Laus D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Brian Skrudland C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Scott Mellanby R 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Bill Lindsay L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Ed Jovanovski D 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Jody Hull R 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Chris Wells C 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Robert Svehla D 0 0 3 -4 -0.38
Terry Carkner D 0 0 0 -3 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mark Fitzpatrick — 9 8 1 .889 20:00 0.05
John Vanbiesbrouck L 29 23 6 .793 40:00 -2.20

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mark Messier C 2 2 7 +4 3.88
Brian Leetch D 0 4 2 +6 3.55
Alex Kovalev R 2 1 6 +3 3.03
Niklas Sundstrom R 2 0 3 +2 2.03
Adam Graves L 0 2 0 +3 1.70
Luc Robitaille L 0 2 1 +2 1.48
Wayne Gretzky C 0 1 3 +2 1.15
Alexander Karpovtsev D 1 0 1 0 0.83
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 1 +4 0.52
Bill Berg L 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Brian Noonan R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Doug Lidster D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Bruce Driver D 0 0 3 -1 -0.08
Daniel Goneau L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Patrick Flatley R 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Shane Churla R 0 0 0 -1 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 31 28 3 .903 60:00 0.55