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Wednesday, January 22, 1997 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Oilers 1 at Islanders 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 91OVR Derek King Whalers First Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG C 95OVR Bryan Smolinski Islanders Second Star 3A · 2 SOG L 84OVR Marty Mcinnis Flames Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 18:53 Bryan McCabe (7) Bryan Smolinski (10), Ziggy Palffy (24) EDM 0 – 1 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 3:38 Andrei Kovalenko (23) PPG Doug Weight (32), Jason Arnott (25) EDM 1 – 1 NYI
  2. 9:10 Derek King (14) Marty Mcinnis (14), Bryan McCabe (9) EDM 1 – 2 NYI
  3. 11:15 Derek King (15) Travis Green (19) EDM 1 – 3 NYI
  4. 15:59 Ziggy Palffy (27) Bryan Smolinski (11), Bryan Berard (23) EDM 1 – 4 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 0:23 Marty Mcinnis (14) Derek King (22), Travis Green (20) EDM 1 – 5 NYI
  2. 6:39 Derek Armstrong (4) Brent Hughes (1) EDM 1 – 6 NYI
  3. 10:28 Paul Kruse (5) Steve Webb (3), Bryan Smolinski (12) EDM 1 – 7 NYI
  4. 16:44 Steve Webb (1) PPG Doug Houda (4), Derek Armstrong (6) EDM 1 – 8 NYI

Edmonton Oilers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jason Arnott C 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.40
Doug Weight C 0 1 1 0 0 -2 0:00 0.40
Todd Marchant C 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Andrei Kovalenko R 1 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 0.23
Mariusz Czerkawski R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Miroslav Satan R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Donald Dufresne D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Rem Murray L 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Mats Lindgren C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Kelly Buchberger R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Louie Debrusk L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Greg De Vries D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Mike Grier R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.38
Ryan Smyth L 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Jeff Norton D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Dan Mcgillis D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Luke Richardson D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.52
Bryan Marchment D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.52
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Essensa — 8 5 3 .625 16:41 -1.75
Curtis Joseph L 23 18 5 .783 43:19 -1.95

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Derek King L 2 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 2.73
Bryan Smolinski C 0 3 2 0 0 +2 0:00 2.18
Marty Mcinnis L 1 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.98
Bryan McCabe D 1 1 2 0 0 +4 0:00 1.98
Travis Green C 0 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.92
Ziggy Palffy R 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Derek Armstrong C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Steve Webb R 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.53
Doug Houda D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Paul Kruse L 1 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.98
Brent Hughes L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Bryan Berard D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Kenny Jonsson D 0 0 2 0 0 +4 0:00 0.75
Scott Lachance D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Niklas Andersson L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Todd Bertuzzi R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Rich Pilon D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Eric Fichaud W 17 16 1 .941 60:00 0.85