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Wednesday, January 1, 1997 · Reunion Arena

Canadiens 6 at Stars 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 92OVR Vincent Damphousse Canadiens First Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG C 90OVR Joe Nieuwendyk Stars Second Star 2G · 8 SOG L 83OVR Brian Savage Canadiens Third Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:38 Vincent Damphousse (13) SHG Mark Recchi (24), Peter Popovic (8) MTL 1 – 0 DAL
  2. 14:27 Chris Murray (2) Turner Stevenson (6), Eric Houde (1) MTL 2 – 0 DAL

2nd Period

  1. 2:28 Jere Lehtinen (7) Grant Ledyard (8), Brent Gilchrist (10) MTL 2 – 1 DAL
  2. 16:29 Darryl Sydor (3) Todd Harvey (4), Grant Ledyard (9) MTL 2 – 2 DAL
  3. 17:19 Mark Recchi (17) Vincent Damphousse (21), Craig Rivet (1) MTL 3 – 2 DAL

3rd Period

  1. 4:11 Joe Nieuwendyk (10) Jamie Langenbrunner (12), Brent Gilchrist (11) MTL 3 – 3 DAL
  2. 5:56 Joe Nieuwendyk (11) Dave Reid (11), Grant Marshall (3) MTL 3 – 4 DAL
  3. 7:40 Brian Savage (14) Sebastien Bordeleau (2), Stephane Richer (12) MTL 4 – 4 DAL
  4. 9:56 Patrice Brisebois (2) Stephane Richer (13), Brian Savage (25) MTL 5 – 4 DAL
  5. 14:45 Turner Stevenson (1) Darcy Tucker (4) MTL 6 – 4 DAL

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Vincent Damphousse C 1 1 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.05
Brian Savage L 1 1 5 0 0 +3 0:00 1.90
Mark Recchi R 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Turner Stevenson R 1 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Stephane Richer R 0 2 1 0 0 0 0:00 1.33
Patrice Brisebois D 1 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.13
Peter Popovic D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Craig Rivet D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Chris Murray R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Eric Houde C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Sebastien Bordeleau C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Murray Baron D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Darcy Tucker R 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.32
Pierre Sevigny L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jassen Cullimore D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
David Wilkie D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Benoit Brunet L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault W 36 32 4 .889 60:00 0.20

Dallas Stars

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Joe Nieuwendyk C 2 0 8 0 0 0 0:00 1.95
Brent Gilchrist L 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Grant Ledyard D 0 2 0 0 0 0 0:00 1.25
Jere Lehtinen R 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Todd Harvey R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Darryl Sydor D 1 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.83
Dave Reid L 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Jamie Langenbrunner R 0 1 3 0 0 -3 0:00 0.40
Richard Matvichuk D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.23
Grant Marshall R 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.10
Bob Bassen L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Mike Modano C 0 0 5 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.07
Benoit Hogue L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Mike Lalor D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Sergei Zubov D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Guy Carbonneau C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Craig Ludwig D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Pat Verbeek R 0 0 1 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Roman Turek — 2 1 1 .500 9:23 -0.65
Arturs Irbe L 18 13 5 .722 49:56 -2.45