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Wednesday, January 8, 1997 · Madison Square Garden

Lightning 4 at Rangers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 98OVR Mark Messier Rangers First Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG D 99OVR Brian Leetch Rangers Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG L 90OVR Adam Graves Rangers Third Star 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:08 Brian Leetch (10) PPG Alexander Karpovtsev (19), Wayne Gretzky (44) TBL 0 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 2:03 Mark Messier (24) SHG Adam Graves (18), Brian Leetch (33) TBL 0 – 2 NYR
  2. 2:24 Chris Gratton (16) PPG Alexander Selivanov (6), Drew Bannister (7) TBL 1 – 2 NYR
  3. 7:24 Rob Zamuner (8) Chris Gratton (16), Bill Houlder (8) TBL 2 – 2 NYR
  4. 12:57 Alex Kovalev (13) Adam Graves (19), Mark Messier (23) TBL 2 – 3 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 2:29 Shawn Burr (9) Unassisted TBL 3 – 3 NYR
  2. 17:16 Patrick Poulin (8) Alexander Selivanov (7), Shawn Burr (11) TBL 4 – 3 NYR

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Alexander Selivanov R 0 2 4 0 1.55
Chris Gratton C 1 1 2 0 1.53
Bill Houlder D 0 1 0 +3 1.08
Rob Zamuner L 1 0 4 +1 1.05
Patrick Poulin L 1 0 2 +2 1.05
Shawn Burr L 1 1 1 +2 1.00
Cory Cross D 0 0 2 +2 0.45
Drew Bannister D 0 1 1 -2 0.40
Paul Ysebaert L 0 0 5 -1 0.23
Brian Bradley C 0 0 5 -1 0.23
Mikael Andersson R 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Roman Hamrlik D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Dino Ciccarelli R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Daymond Langkow C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Brantt Myhres R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Rudy Poeschek D 0 0 0 0 0.00
John Cullen C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Craig Wolanin D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rick Tabaracci W 36 33 3 .917 60:00 1.05

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mark Messier C 1 1 6 +2 2.13
Brian Leetch D 1 1 4 +2 1.98
Adam Graves L 0 2 3 +2 1.78
Alex Kovalev R 1 0 4 +1 1.05
Wayne Gretzky C 0 1 3 -1 0.70
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Luc Robitaille L 0 0 5 -1 0.23
Bill Berg L 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Brian Noonan R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Patrick Flatley R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Christian Dube C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Doug Lidster D 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Shane Churla R 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter L 31 27 4 .871 58:52 -0.30