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Thursday, December 26, 1996 · Ice Palace

Panthers 3 at Lightning 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 79OVR Martin Straka Panthers First Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG C 70OVR Daymond Langkow Lightning Second Star 2G · 6 SOG RC R 93OVR Ray Sheppard Panthers Third Star 2A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:32 Patrick Poulin (7) PPG Drew Bannister (4), Roman Hamrlik (12) FLA 0 – 1 TBL
  2. 2:31 Daymond Langkow (4) Chris Gratton (12), Drew Bannister (5) FLA 0 – 2 TBL

2nd Period

  1. 2:32 Martin Straka (3) Paul Laus (5), Ray Sheppard (15) FLA 1 – 2 TBL
  2. 7:19 Daymond Langkow (5) SHG Patrick Poulin (10) FLA 1 – 3 TBL

3rd Period

  1. 8:06 Martin Straka (4) PPG Scott Mellanby (19) FLA 2 – 3 TBL
  2. 11:32 Dave Lowry (8) Ray Sheppard (16), Martin Straka (18) FLA 3 – 3 TBL

Overtime

No scoring

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Martin Straka C 2 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 2.50
Ray Sheppard R 0 2 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.78
Dave Lowry L 1 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Paul Laus D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Scott Mellanby R 0 1 6 0 0 -1 0:00 0.77
Jody Hull R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Mike Hough L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Gord Murphy D 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Ed Jovanovski D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Brian Skrudland C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Radek Dvorak R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Per Gustafsson D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Jason Podollan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Terry Carkner D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Johan Garpenlov L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Robert Svehla D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Bill Lindsay L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mark Fitzpatrick T 34 31 3 .912 65:00 0.85

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Daymond Langkow C 2 0 6 0 0 +1 0:00 2.10
Patrick Poulin L 1 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Drew Bannister D 0 2 2 0 0 -1 0:00 1.25
Chris Gratton C 0 1 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Roman Hamrlik D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Brian Bradley C 0 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Rob Zamuner L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Alexander Selivanov R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Bill Houlder D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Cory Cross D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Paul Brousseau R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
John Cullen C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Allan Egeland C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Brantt Myhres R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Igor Ulanov D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Craig Wolanin D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dino Ciccarelli R 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Rudy Poeschek D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rick Tabaracci T 38 35 3 .921 65:00 1.25