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Thursday, January 2, 1997 · Hartford Civic Center

Bruins 5 at Whalers 4

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 93OVR Ted Donato Bruins First Star 2G · 3 SOG L 92OVR Geoff Sanderson Whalers Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 95OVR Adam Oates Capitals Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:45 Ted Donato (11) Rob DiMaio (6), Steve Staios (5) BOS 1 – 0 HFD
  2. 2:34 Ray Bourque (3) PPG Adam Oates (24) BOS 2 – 0 HFD
  3. 4:41 Todd Elik (4) Kyle McLaren (4), Don Sweeney (12) BOS 3 – 0 HFD
  4. 15:28 Kevin Dineen (9) Andrew Cassels (25), Geoff Sanderson (17) BOS 3 – 1 HFD
  5. 18:46 Steven Rice (13) PPG Curtis Leschyshyn (12), Glen Wesley (13) BOS 3 – 2 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 7:45 Geoff Sanderson (24) Kevin Dineen (18), Jeff O'Neill (10) BOS 3 – 3 HFD
  2. 13:56 Robert Kron (5) Glen Wesley (14) BOS 3 – 4 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 10:21 Jeff Odgers (4) Brett Harkins (10), Don Sweeney (13) BOS 4 – 4 HFD

Overtime

  1. 2:21 Ted Donato (12) Adam Oates (25) BOS 5 – 4 HFD

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ted Donato L 2 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 2.03
Adam Oates C 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Don Sweeney D 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Rob DiMaio R 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Kyle McLaren D 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Jeff Odgers R 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Ray Bourque D 1 0 5 0 0 -2 0:00 0.83
Todd Elik L 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Brett Harkins L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Steve Staios D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.18
Jozef Stumpel L 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Trent McCleary C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Jon Rohloff D 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Mattias Timander D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Troy Mallette L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Dean Chynoweth D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Cameron Stewart L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Barry Richter D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Robbie Tallas W 20 16 4 .800 62:21 -1.40

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Geoff Sanderson L 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.83
Glen Wesley D 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.55
Kevin Dineen R 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Robert Kron C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Steven Rice R 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.68
Jeff O'Neill C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Curtis Leschyshyn D 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.40
Adam Burt D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Kent Manderville C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Alexander Godynyuk D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Kelly Chase R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Andrew Cassels C 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.12
Mark Janssens C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Paul Ranheim L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Stu Grimson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Marek Malik D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Jason McBain D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Hnat Domenichelli L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jason Muzzatti L 29 27 2 .931 57:40 1.20
Jean-Sebastien Giguere — 5 2 3 .400 4:41 -2.05