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Saturday, January 4, 1997 · Madison Square Garden

Senators 4 at Rangers 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 97OVR Wayne Gretzky Rangers First Star 4A · 5 SOG L 89OVR Luc Robitaille Rangers Second Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG R 91OVR Alex Kovalev Rangers Third Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 1:23 Mark Messier (23) Alex Kovalev (21), Alexander Karpovtsev (18) OTT 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 7:06 Niklas Sundstrom (16) Wayne Gretzky (40), Bruce Driver (13) OTT 0 – 2 NYR
  3. 9:13 Randy Cunneyworth (4) Shaun Van Allen (7), Alexandre Daigle (12) OTT 1 – 2 NYR
  4. 10:08 Niklas Sundstrom (17) Luc Robitaille (18), Wayne Gretzky (41) OTT 1 – 3 NYR
  5. 12:35 Luc Robitaille (16) Wayne Gretzky (42), Alex Kovalev (22) OTT 1 – 4 NYR
  6. 15:27 Randy Cunneyworth (5) PPG Sergei Zholtok (4), Andreas Dackell (8) OTT 2 – 4 NYR
  7. 18:35 Luc Robitaille (17) Wayne Gretzky (43), Patrick Flatley (8) OTT 2 – 5 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 7:17 Alex Kovalev (12) Adam Graves (17) OTT 2 – 6 NYR
  2. 15:00 Daniel Alfredsson (14) PPG Wade Redden (13), Alexandre Daigle (13) OTT 3 – 6 NYR
  3. 18:34 Jason Zent (3) Jason York (8), Sergei Zholtok (5) OTT 4 – 6 NYR

Ottawa Senators

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Sergei Zholtok C 0 2 2 0 1.40
Randy Cunneyworth L 2 0 4 -2 1.35
Daniel Alfredsson R 1 0 3 0 0.98
Jason Zent L 1 0 1 +1 0.98
Andreas Dackell R 0 1 4 -1 0.78
Alexandre Daigle R 0 2 1 -4 0.73
Jason York D 0 1 3 -1 0.70
Shaun Van Allen C 0 1 2 -2 0.48
Tom Chorske R 0 0 6 -1 0.30
Wade Redden D 0 1 1 -3 0.25
Bruce Gardiner R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Frantisek Musil D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Lance Pitlick D 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Janne Laukkanen D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Steve Duchesne D 0 0 3 -1 -0.08
Alexei Yashin C 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Dennis Vial L 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Denny Lambert L 0 0 2 0 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Damian Rhodes L 23 18 5 .783 40:00 -1.95
Ron Tugnutt — 5 4 1 .800 19:31 -0.35

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Wayne Gretzky C 0 4 5 +2 3.18
Luc Robitaille L 2 1 4 +3 2.88
Alex Kovalev R 1 2 2 +3 2.60
Niklas Sundstrom R 2 0 3 +1 1.88
Bruce Driver D 0 1 1 +3 1.15
Brian Leetch D 0 0 6 +4 1.05
Mark Messier C 1 0 1 +2 0.98
Patrick Flatley R 0 1 2 +1 0.63
Adam Graves L 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 1 0 -1 0.48
Bill Berg L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Daniel Goneau L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Brian Noonan R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Shane Churla R 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 -0.30
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 +2 -0.45
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 0 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 43 39 4 .907 60:00 0.90