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Saturday, January 4, 1997 · Civic Arena

Lightning 3 at Penguins 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 99OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins First Star 2G · 3A · 5 SOG C 96OVR Ron Francis Penguins Second Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG R 99OVR Jaromir Jagr Penguins Third Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:54 Petr Nedved (18) Joe Mullen (6), Tomas Sandstrom (14) TBL 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 7:59 Jaromir Jagr (35) Mario Lemieux (36), Fredrik Olausson (17) TBL 0 – 2 PIT
  3. 10:22 Chris Gratton (15) Cory Cross (3) TBL 1 – 2 PIT
  4. 11:45 Mario Lemieux (28) PPG Jason Woolley (10) TBL 1 – 3 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 7:34 Alex Hicks (5) Joe Dziedzic (4), Stu Barnes (15) TBL 1 – 4 PIT
  2. 14:51 Daymond Langkow (7) Unassisted TBL 2 – 4 PIT
  3. 17:40 Mario Lemieux (29) PPG Fredrik Olausson (18), Ron Francis (32) TBL 2 – 5 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 7:44 Ron Francis (14) Mario Lemieux (37) TBL 2 – 6 PIT
  2. 9:38 Drew Bannister (4) PPG Dino Ciccarelli (14), Brian Bradley (12) TBL 3 – 6 PIT
  3. 11:21 Ron Francis (15) Mario Lemieux (38), Jaromir Jagr (27) TBL 3 – 7 PIT

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Daymond Langkow C 1 0 2 +1 1.05
Chris Gratton C 1 0 4 -1 0.90
Brian Bradley C 0 1 5 -1 0.85
Drew Bannister D 1 0 4 -3 0.60
Cory Cross D 0 1 1 +1 0.55
Paul Ysebaert L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Brantt Myhres R 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Dino Ciccarelli R 0 1 1 -4 0.10
Rob Zamuner L 0 0 3 0 0.07
Roman Hamrlik D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Jeff Toms L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Mikael Andersson R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Bill Houlder D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Shawn Burr L 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Igor Ulanov D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Craig Wolanin D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
John Cullen C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Patrick Poulin L 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rick Tabaracci — 4 2 2 .500 7:59 -1.30
Corey Schwab L 20 15 5 .750 52:01 -2.25

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mario Lemieux C 2 3 5 +3 4.20
Ron Francis C 2 1 4 +3 2.88
Jaromir Jagr R 1 1 1 +3 1.75
Fredrik Olausson D 0 2 2 +3 1.70
Jason Woolley D 0 1 2 +3 1.22
Alex Hicks L 1 0 1 +1 0.98
Stu Barnes C 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Petr Nedved C 1 0 1 -1 0.68
Joe Dziedzic L 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Tomas Sandstrom R 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Joe Mullen R 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Dave Roche L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Francois Leroux D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Glen Murray R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Kevin Hatcher D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Neil Wilkinson D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Craig Muni D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Tyler Wright C 0 0 0 0 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Patrick Lalime W 31 28 3 .903 60:00 0.55