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Monday, December 23, 1996 · General Motors Place

Oilers 7 at Canucks 0

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 59OVR Bob Essensa Oilers First Star 26 SV · 1.000 L 86OVR Ryan Smyth Oilers Second Star 2G · 5 SOG C 69OVR Dean McAmmond Oilers Third Star 2G · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 9:36 Dean McAmmond (7) Mariusz Czerkawski (9), Dan Mcgillis (4) EDM 1 – 0 VAN
  2. 9:43 Andrei Kovalenko (17) PPG Boris Mironov (19) EDM 2 – 0 VAN

2nd Period

  1. 0:45 Ryan Smyth (16) Luke Richardson (7) EDM 3 – 0 VAN
  2. 7:42 Andrei Kovalenko (18) Jason Arnott (20) EDM 4 – 0 VAN

3rd Period

  1. 2:37 Mats Lindgren (3) Kelly Buchberger (11), Kevin Lowe (4) EDM 5 – 0 VAN
  2. 7:29 Ryan Smyth (17) Kelly Buchberger (12) EDM 6 – 0 VAN
  3. 9:30 Dean McAmmond (8) Mariusz Czerkawski (10), Todd Marchant (8) EDM 7 – 0 VAN

Edmonton Oilers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ryan Smyth L 2 0 5 +3 2.33
Dean McAmmond C 2 0 6 +2 2.25
Kelly Buchberger R 0 2 1 +3 1.78
Andrei Kovalenko R 2 0 2 +1 1.65
Mariusz Czerkawski R 0 2 1 +2 1.63
Dan Mcgillis D 0 1 1 +3 1.15
Mats Lindgren C 1 0 1 +2 1.13
Jason Arnott C 0 1 4 +1 1.08
Todd Marchant C 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Boris Mironov D 0 1 3 +2 1.00
Kevin Lowe D 0 1 1 +2 1.00
Luke Richardson D 0 1 0 +3 0.93
Jeff Norton D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Doug Weight C 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Mike Grier R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Rem Murray L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bryan Marchment D 0 0 0 +1 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Essensa W 26 26 0 1.000 60:00 2.60

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Esa Tikkanen L 0 0 4 -1 0.15
David Roberts L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Jyrki Lumme D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bret Hedican D 0 0 5 -3 -0.07
Alexander Semak C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Pavel Bure R 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Mike Ridley C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Mark Wotton D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Lonny Bohonos R 0 0 2 -3 -0.30
Markus Naslund L 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Martin Gelinas L 0 0 2 -3 -0.30
Alexander Mogilny R 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Dave Babych D 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Gino Odjick L 0 0 3 0 -0.38
Adrian Aucoin D 0 0 3 -4 -0.38
Mike Sillinger C 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Dana Murzyn D 0 0 1 0 -0.83
Donald Brashear L 0 0 0 0 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Fountain — 4 4 0 1.000 10:30 0.40
Corey Hirsch L 27 20 7 .741 49:30 -3.25