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Monday, January 6, 1997 · Centre Molson

Whalers 4 at Canadiens 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 92OVR Vincent Damphousse Canadiens First Star 3G · 5 SOG C 89OVR Andrew Cassels Whalers Second Star 2G · 5 SOG L 83OVR Brian Savage Canadiens Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:29 David Wilkie (3) PPG Scott Thornton (4), Darcy Tucker (5) HFD 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 15:17 Andrew Cassels (11) PPG Glen Wesley (15), Geoff Sanderson (18) HFD 1 – 1 MTL
  3. 15:54 Chris Murray (3) Craig Rivet (2) HFD 1 – 2 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 2:40 Stu Grimson (2) Kent Manderville (1), Glen Wesley (16) HFD 2 – 2 MTL
  2. 3:08 Vincent Damphousse (17) Brian Savage (26), Mark Recchi (26) HFD 2 – 3 MTL
  3. 13:52 Andrew Cassels (12) Geoff Sanderson (19) HFD 3 – 3 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 5:18 Sami Kapanen (6) Steven Rice (8), Keith Primeau (14) HFD 4 – 3 MTL
  2. 18:07 Vincent Damphousse (18) Peter Popovic (9), Brian Savage (27) HFD 4 – 4 MTL
  3. 19:56 Vincent Damphousse (19) Mark Recchi (27) HFD 4 – 5 MTL

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Andrew Cassels C 2 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.03
Glen Wesley D 0 2 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.63
Geoff Sanderson L 0 2 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Steven Rice R 0 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 1.15
Stu Grimson L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Kent Manderville C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Sami Kapanen R 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.53
Keith Primeau C 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.40
Kelly Chase R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Kevin Dineen R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Robert Kron C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Alexander Godynyuk D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Adam Burt D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
Mark Janssens C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Marek Malik D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Paul Ranheim L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Curtis Leschyshyn D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jason Muzzatti L 26 21 5 .808 60:00 -1.65

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Vincent Damphousse C 3 0 5 0 0 +2 0:00 2.78
Brian Savage L 0 2 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.85
Mark Recchi R 0 2 0 0 0 +3 0:00 1.70
Craig Rivet D 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Chris Murray R 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.75
David Wilkie D 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Peter Popovic D 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Darcy Tucker R 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.55
Scott Thornton L 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.32
Murray Baron D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Sebastien Bordeleau C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Benoit Brunet L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Pierre Sevigny L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Eric Houde C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Turner Stevenson R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Stephane Richer R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jassen Cullimore D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault W 30 26 4 .867 60:00 -0.40