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Monday, December 30, 1996 · Civic Arena

Capitals 3 at Penguins 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 80OVR Tomas Sandstrom Red Wings First Star 2G · 4 SOG R 72OVR Joe Mullen Penguins Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG C 99OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins Third Star 2G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 15:18 Peter Bondra (20) SHG Unassisted WSH 1 – 0 PIT
  2. 16:14 Tomas Sandstrom (6) Fredrik Olausson (15), Joe Mullen (5) WSH 1 – 1 PIT
  3. 16:31 Sylvain Cote (1) Michal Pivonka (8), Phil Housley (12) WSH 2 – 1 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 3:59 Mario Lemieux (26) Jaromir Jagr (24), Francois Leroux (1) WSH 2 – 2 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 10:20 Tomas Sandstrom (7) Craig Muni (3), Petr Nedved (20) WSH 2 – 3 PIT
  2. 13:22 Joe Mullen (1) Stu Barnes (14), Alex Hicks (8) WSH 2 – 4 PIT
  3. 16:52 Joe Juneau (10) Phil Housley (13), Sylvain Cote (4) WSH 3 – 4 PIT
  4. 19:43 Mario Lemieux (27) Unassisted WSH 3 – 5 PIT

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Sylvain Cote D 1 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.45
Phil Housley D 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.25
Joe Juneau C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Peter Bondra R 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.68
Jason Allison C 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Michal Pivonka C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.32
Calle Johansson D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Craig Berube L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Kelly Miller L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Chris Simon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Dale Hunter C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Kevin Kaminski C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Mike Eagles L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Ken Klee D 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.23
Joe Reekie D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Olie Kolzig L 29 25 4 .862 58:24 -0.50

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Tomas Sandstrom R 2 0 4 0 0 +3 0:00 2.25
Joe Mullen R 1 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.98
Mario Lemieux C 2 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.80
Fredrik Olausson D 0 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.22
Jaromir Jagr R 0 1 5 0 0 0 0:00 1.00
Petr Nedved C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Craig Muni D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Stu Barnes C 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Francois Leroux D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.78
Alex Hicks L 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Jason Woolley D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Joe Dziedzic L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Tyler Wright C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dave Roche L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Kevin Hatcher D 0 0 6 0 0 -3 0:00 0.00
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Ron Francis C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Glen Murray R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Patrick Lalime W 28 25 3 .893 60:00 0.25