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Thursday, December 26, 1996 · Corel Centre

Rangers 2 at Senators 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 93OVR Alexei Yashin Senators First Star 2G · 1A · 6 SOG C 98OVR Mark Messier Rangers Second Star 2G · 4 SOG R 75OVR Alexandre Daigle Senators Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 13:45 Alexei Yashin (14) PPG Alexandre Daigle (11) NYR 0 – 1 OTT
  2. 14:53 Jason Zent (1) Denis Chasse (3) NYR 0 – 2 OTT

2nd Period

  1. 1:43 Alexei Yashin (15) Frantisek Musil (2), Daniel Alfredsson (22) NYR 0 – 3 OTT
  2. 6:05 Mark Messier (19) PPG Alex Kovalev (16), Brian Noonan (11) NYR 1 – 3 OTT
  3. 11:18 Sergei Zholtok (4) Wade Redden (11), Alexei Yashin (15) NYR 1 – 4 OTT

3rd Period

  1. 15:53 Mark Messier (20) Alex Kovalev (17) NYR 2 – 4 OTT
  2. 18:12 Alexandre Daigle (14) Unassisted NYR 2 – 5 OTT

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mark Messier C 2 0 4 0 1.80
Alex Kovalev R 0 2 2 +1 1.55
Brian Noonan R 0 1 2 0 0.78
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Jayson More D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bill Berg L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Doug Lidster D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Bruce Driver D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Patrick Flatley R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Adam Graves L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Luc Robitaille L 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Shane Churla R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Daniel Goneau L 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Wayne Gretzky C 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Brian Leetch D 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Healy L 32 28 4 .875 59:45 -0.20

Ottawa Senators

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Alexei Yashin C 2 1 6 +1 2.73
Alexandre Daigle R 1 1 3 +1 1.75
Sergei Zholtok C 1 0 5 +1 1.28
Jason Zent L 1 0 4 +1 1.20
Wade Redden D 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Daniel Alfredsson R 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Denis Chasse R 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Frantisek Musil D 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Randy Cunneyworth L 0 0 3 +1 0.38
Shaun Van Allen C 0 0 3 +1 0.23
Denny Lambert L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Jason York D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Dave Hannan C 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Bruce Gardiner R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Lance Pitlick D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Andreas Dackell R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Steve Duchesne D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Janne Laukkanen D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Damian Rhodes W 21 19 2 .905 60:00 0.40