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Monday, December 23, 1996 · Ice Palace

Capitals 3 at Lightning 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 73OVR Dale Hunter Capitals First Star 3A · 4 SOG G 42OVR Jim Carey Bruins Second Star 23 SV · .958 C 70OVR Daymond Langkow Lightning Third Star 1G · 4 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:39 Peter Bondra (16) Jason Allison (12), Dale Hunter (13) WSH 1 – 0 TBL
  2. 17:16 Joe Juneau (9) PPG Sylvain Cote (2), Dale Hunter (14) WSH 2 – 0 TBL

2nd Period

  1. 14:23 Kelly Miller (3) Dale Hunter (15), Joe Reekie (3) WSH 3 – 0 TBL
  2. 14:47 Daymond Langkow (3) Chris Gratton (11), Rob Zamuner (19) WSH 3 – 1 TBL

3rd Period

No scoring

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dale Hunter C 0 3 4 +2 2.48
Kelly Miller L 1 0 4 +1 1.20
Joe Juneau C 1 0 5 0 1.13
Peter Bondra R 1 0 3 0 0.98
Joe Reekie D 0 1 1 +1 0.70
Jason Allison C 0 1 0 0 0.63
Sylvain Cote D 0 1 2 0 0.63
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Andrew Brunette L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Michal Pivonka C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Craig Berube L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Mike Eagles L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Ken Klee D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Calle Johansson D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Phil Housley D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Carey W 24 23 1 .958 60:00 1.55

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Daymond Langkow C 1 0 4 +1 1.20
Rob Zamuner L 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Chris Gratton C 0 1 0 +1 0.63
David Shaw D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Roman Hamrlik D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Alexander Selivanov R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Drew Bannister D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Paul Brousseau R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Jay Wells D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Cory Cross D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Brian Bradley C 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Patrick Poulin L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
John Cullen C 0 0 2 0 -0.15
Brantt Myhres R 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Bill Houlder D 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Rudy Poeschek D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Allan Egeland C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Craig Wolanin D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rick Tabaracci L 34 31 3 .912 58:57 0.85