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Saturday, December 28, 1996 · Ice Palace

Canadiens 4 at Lightning 4

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 84OVR John Cullen Lightning First Star 1G · 2A · 5 SOG L 83OVR Brian Savage Canadiens Second Star 3A · 5 SOG G 88OVR Jocelyn Thibault Canadiens Third Star 19 SV · 1.000

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:08 Dino Ciccarelli (17) PPG Roman Hamrlik (13), John Cullen (21) MTL 0 – 1 TBL
  2. 4:05 Alexander Selivanov (9) Paul Ysebaert (1), Brian Bradley (10) MTL 0 – 2 TBL
  3. 10:55 Valeri Bure (6) Vincent Damphousse (20), Brian Savage (21) MTL 1 – 2 TBL
  4. 15:59 Valeri Bure (7) PPG Mark Recchi (22), Stephane Quintal (8) MTL 2 – 2 TBL

2nd Period

  1. 5:33 Jeff Toms (1) John Cullen (22), Dino Ciccarelli (13) MTL 2 – 3 TBL
  2. 8:55 Benoit Brunet (4) PPG Brian Savage (22), Patrice Brisebois (11) MTL 3 – 3 TBL
  3. 10:43 John Cullen (9) PPG Alexander Selivanov (3), Roman Hamrlik (14) MTL 3 – 4 TBL

3rd Period

  1. 10:18 Benoit Brunet (5) Brian Savage (23), Stephane Richer (11) MTL 4 – 4 TBL

Overtime

No scoring

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brian Savage L 0 3 5 0 0 0 0:00 2.25
Valeri Bure R 2 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.88
Benoit Brunet L 2 0 6 0 0 -1 0:00 1.80
Vincent Damphousse C 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Stephane Quintal D 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Mark Recchi R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Stephane Richer R 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Patrice Brisebois D 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.40
Jassen Cullimore D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Chris Murray R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Scott Thornton L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Martin Rucinsky L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Turner Stevenson R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Darcy Tucker R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Sebastien Bordeleau C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
David Wilkie D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Peter Popovic D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Murray Baron D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Pat Jablonski — 15 11 4 .733 30:43 -1.90
Jocelyn Thibault T 19 19 0 1.000 34:17 1.90

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
John Cullen C 1 2 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.53
Alexander Selivanov R 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.60
Roman Hamrlik D 0 2 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.48
Dino Ciccarelli R 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.38
Jeff Toms L 1 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.28
Paul Ysebaert L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Brian Bradley C 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Bill Houlder D 0 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 0.53
Drew Bannister D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Igor Ulanov D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Brantt Myhres R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Cory Cross D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Daymond Langkow C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Patrick Poulin L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Craig Wolanin D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Rudy Poeschek D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Rob Zamuner L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.38
Chris Gratton C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rick Tabaracci T 33 29 4 .879 65:00 -0.10