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Saturday, December 28, 1996 · Edmonton Coliseum

Sharks 3 at Oilers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 89OVR Ryan Smyth Oilers First Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG R 76OVR Kelly Buchberger Oilers Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG C 69OVR Mats Lindgren Oilers Third Star 2A · 1 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 14:06 Miroslav Satan (12) Andrei Kovalenko (16) SJS 0 – 1 EDM
  2. 16:11 Ulf Dahlen (5) Ray Whitney (1) SJS 1 – 1 EDM

2nd Period

  1. 1:21 Jeff Friesen (10) Tony Granato (7), Andrei Nazarov (6) SJS 2 – 1 EDM
  2. 16:50 Owen Nolan (15) PPG Al Iafrate (7), Greg Hawgood (5) SJS 3 – 1 EDM
  3. 18:10 Ryan Smyth (18) Kelly Buchberger (14), Mats Lindgren (7) SJS 3 – 2 EDM
  4. 19:39 Doug Weight (8) Dan Mcgillis (6) SJS 3 – 3 EDM

3rd Period

  1. 16:00 Kelly Buchberger (3) Ryan Smyth (14), Mats Lindgren (8) SJS 3 – 4 EDM
  2. 19:07 Doug Weight (9) Unassisted SJS 3 – 5 EDM

San Jose Sharks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jeff Friesen L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Al Iafrate D 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Owen Nolan R 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Ulf Dahlen R 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Tony Granato R 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Ray Whitney L 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Doug Bodger D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Viktor Kozlov C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Shean Donovan R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Darren Turcotte C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Marcus Ragnarsson D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Todd Gill D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Bernie Nicholls C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Marty McSorley D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Michal Sykora D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Greg Hawgood D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.50
Andrei Nazarov L 0 1 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.58
Ron Sutter C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Chris Terreri L 16 13 3 .812 29:43 -0.95
Kelly Hrudey — 14 13 1 .929 30:05 0.55

Edmonton Oilers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ryan Smyth L 1 1 6 0 0 +2 0:00 1.98
Kelly Buchberger R 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Mats Lindgren C 0 2 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.63
Doug Weight C 2 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.35
Miroslav Satan R 1 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.28
Dan Mcgillis D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.85
Andrei Kovalenko R 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.32
Michel Petit D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Boris Mironov D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Jeff Norton D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Todd Marchant C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Dean McAmmond C 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Rem Murray L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mariusz Czerkawski R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Mike Grier R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Louie Debrusk L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bryan Marchment D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Luke Richardson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.98
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Essensa W 20 17 3 .850 60:00 -0.55