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Sunday, December 29, 1996 · McNichols Sports Arena

Stars 2 at Avalanche 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 75OVR Christian Matte Avalanche First Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG RC L 79OVR Eric Lacroix Avalanche Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG C 97OVR Mike Modano Stars Third Star 1G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:37 Christian Matte (1) Eric Lacroix (7), Rene Corbet (6) DAL 0 – 1 COL

2nd Period

  1. 5:02 Mike Modano (15) SHG Jere Lehtinen (17), Arturs Irbe (1) DAL 1 – 1 COL
  2. 5:57 Uwe Krupp (3) PPG Sandis Ozolinsh (25) DAL 1 – 2 COL
  3. 16:19 Eric Lacroix (12) Joe Sakic (34), Christian Matte (1) DAL 1 – 3 COL

3rd Period

  1. 4:18 Bill Huard (1) Joe Nieuwendyk (7), Sergei Zubov (14) DAL 2 – 3 COL

Dallas Stars

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike Modano C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Jere Lehtinen R 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Joe Nieuwendyk C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Bill Huard L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Sergei Zubov D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Mike Lalor D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Jamie Langenbrunner R 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Pat Verbeek R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Grant Ledyard D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Benoit Hogue L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Richard Matvichuk D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Craig Ludwig D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dave Reid L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Guy Carbonneau C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Grant Marshall R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Mike Kennedy C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Bob Bassen L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Darryl Sydor D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Arturs Irbe L 21 18 3 .857 58:43 -0.45

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Christian Matte R 1 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.75
Eric Lacroix L 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Uwe Krupp D 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Joe Sakic C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Rene Corbet L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Sandis Ozolinsh D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Keith Jones R 0 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.23
Eric Messier L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Adam Foote D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Yves Sarault L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Mike Keane R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Valeri Kamensky L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Brent Severyn L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Aaron Miller D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jon Klemm D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Stephane Yelle C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Mike Ricci C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Adam Deadmarsh R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Patrick Roy W 23 21 2 .913 60:00 0.60