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Thursday, December 26, 1996 · San Jose Arena

Canucks 1 at Sharks 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 76OVR Bernie Nicholls Sharks First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG R 78OVR Tony Granato Sharks Second Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG R 89OVR Owen Nolan Sharks Third Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:15 Andrei Nazarov (6) Tony Granato (5) VAN 0 – 1 SJS
  2. 13:20 Mike Ridley (11) Alexander Mogilny (16), Martin Gelinas (10) VAN 1 – 1 SJS
  3. 14:34 Jeff Friesen (9) Bernie Nicholls (19), Owen Nolan (16) VAN 1 – 2 SJS

2nd Period

  1. 0:56 Owen Nolan (14) PPG Tony Granato (6), Bernie Nicholls (20) VAN 1 – 3 SJS
  2. 6:35 Tony Granato (12) Darren Turcotte (9), Marcus Ragnarsson (3) VAN 1 – 4 SJS
  3. 18:25 Al Iafrate (5) PPG Viktor Kozlov (9), Ulf Dahlen (7) VAN 1 – 5 SJS
  4. 19:02 Bernie Nicholls (7) Viktor Kozlov (10), Owen Nolan (17) VAN 1 – 6 SJS

3rd Period

No scoring

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike Ridley C 1 0 6 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Alexander Mogilny R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Martin Gelinas L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Mark Wotton D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Troy Crowder R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Mike Sillinger C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Donald Brashear L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bret Hedican D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Lonny Bohonos R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Markus Naslund L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Leif Rohlin D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Esa Tikkanen L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Dana Murzyn D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Pavel Bure R 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.23
David Roberts L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Adrian Aucoin D 0 0 4 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Dave Babych D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Gino Odjick L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Corey Hirsch L 35 29 6 .829 60:00 -1.60

San Jose Sharks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bernie Nicholls C 1 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.53
Tony Granato R 1 2 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.38
Owen Nolan R 1 2 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.23
Viktor Kozlov C 0 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.63
Jeff Friesen L 1 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.28
Andrei Nazarov L 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Darren Turcotte C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Al Iafrate D 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Ulf Dahlen R 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Marcus Ragnarsson D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Marty McSorley D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
Michal Sykora D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Ray Whitney L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Todd Gill D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Todd Ewen R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Doug Bodger D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Greg Hawgood D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Ron Sutter C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kelly Hrudey W 27 26 1 .963 60:00 1.85