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Thursday, January 2, 1997 · Madison Square Garden

Islanders 3 at Rangers 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 90OVR Adam Graves Rangers First Star 2A · 3 SOG D 99OVR Brian Leetch Rangers Second Star 1A · 7 SOG R 98OVR Ziggy Palffy Islanders Third Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 18:48 Bryan McCabe (5) PPG Travis Green (15), Kenny Jonsson (7) NYI 1 – 0 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 7:09 Luc Robitaille (15) Eric Cairns (1), Wayne Gretzky (39) NYI 1 – 1 NYR
  2. 8:36 Mark Messier (21) Adam Graves (15), Alex Kovalev (20) NYI 1 – 2 NYR
  3. 10:01 Bryan Smolinski (10) PPG Ziggy Palffy (18), Kenny Jonsson (8) NYI 2 – 2 NYR
  4. 11:11 Ziggy Palffy (23) Derek King (17), Doug Houda (3) NYI 3 – 2 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 13:12 Alexander Karpovtsev (4) Mark Messier (21) NYI 3 – 3 NYR
  2. 16:30 Mark Messier (22) Brian Leetch (32), Adam Graves (16) NYI 3 – 4 NYR

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ziggy Palffy R 1 1 6 -2 1.53
Kenny Jonsson D 0 2 0 -1 1.10
Bryan Smolinski C 1 0 6 -3 0.75
Derek King L 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Travis Green C 0 1 2 0 0.63
Doug Houda D 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Bryan McCabe D 1 0 2 -1 0.45
Marty Mcinnis L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Randy Wood R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Brent Hughes L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Scott Lachance D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Paul Kruse L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dan Plante R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Rich Pilon D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Bryan Berard D 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Derek Armstrong C 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Niklas Andersson L 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Salo L 34 30 4 .882 59:56 0.00

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Adam Graves L 0 2 3 +3 1.92
Brian Leetch D 0 1 7 +3 1.60
Alex Kovalev R 0 1 4 +2 1.23
Luc Robitaille L 1 0 5 0 1.13
Mark Messier C 2 1 3 +2 1.00
Wayne Gretzky C 0 1 3 +1 0.85
Alexander Karpovtsev D 1 0 1 0 0.83
Eric Cairns D 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 1 +2 0.23
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Bruce Driver D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Daniel Goneau L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Bill Berg L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Shane Churla R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Patrick Flatley R 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Brian Noonan R 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 29 26 3 .897 60:00 0.35