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Wednesday, January 1, 1997 · Capital Centre

Whalers 2 at Capitals 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 97OVR Peter Bondra Capitals First Star 2G · 6 SOG L 79OVR Steve Konowalchuk Capitals Second Star 1G · 4 SOG D 63OVR Curtis Leschyshyn Whalers Third Star 1G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 16:23 Peter Bondra (21) Unassisted HFD 0 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 6:08 Peter Bondra (22) PPG Phil Housley (14) HFD 0 – 2 WSH
  2. 9:00 Steven Rice (12) PPG Mark Janssens (4), Kevin Haller (8) HFD 1 – 2 WSH
  3. 16:39 Curtis Leschyshyn (3) SHG Keith Primeau (13) HFD 2 – 2 WSH

3rd Period

No scoring

Overtime

  1. 3:01 Steve Konowalchuk (6) Kelly Miller (8), Dale Hunter (17) HFD 2 – 3 WSH

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Curtis Leschyshyn D 1 0 3 0 0.98
Kevin Haller D 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Steven Rice R 1 0 2 0 0.90
Mark Janssens C 0 1 0 0 0.10
Nelson Emerson R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 4 -1 0.00
Robert Kron C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Kent Manderville C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Alexander Godynyuk D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Adam Burt D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Andrew Cassels C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Paul Ranheim L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Jeff O'Neill C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Glen Wesley D 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Marek Malik D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Kevin Dineen R 0 0 3 -1 -0.23
Stu Grimson L 0 0 0 0 -0.38
Keith Primeau C 0 1 0 +1 -0.50
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jason Muzzatti L 25 22 3 .880 63:01 -0.05

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Peter Bondra R 2 0 6 +1 1.95
Steve Konowalchuk L 1 0 4 +1 1.20
Dale Hunter C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Phil Housley D 0 1 2 0 0.63
Kelly Miller L 0 1 3 +1 0.55
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 0 3 +1 0.38
Ken Klee D 0 0 3 +1 0.38
Joe Reekie D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Michal Pivonka C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jason Allison C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Calle Johansson D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Joe Juneau C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Kevin Kaminski C 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Mike Eagles L 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Chris Simon L 0 0 1 0 -0.30
Craig Berube L 0 0 0 0 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Carey W 24 22 2 .917 63:01 0.70