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Wednesday, January 22, 1997 · Capital Centre

Rangers 5 at Capitals 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 99OVR Brian Leetch Rangers First Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG C 98OVR Mark Messier Rangers Second Star 3A · 2 SOG R 97OVR Peter Bondra Capitals Third Star 2G · 8 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:53 Brian Leetch (14) Wayne Gretzky (47), Niklas Sundstrom (16) NYR 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 10:23 Luc Robitaille (20) PPG Mark Messier (25), Brian Leetch (36) NYR 2 – 0 WSH
  3. 11:57 Vladimir Vorobiev (2) Wayne Gretzky (48), Alexander Karpovtsev (21) NYR 3 – 0 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 7:28 Steve Konowalchuk (8) Dale Hunter (22), Sylvain Cote (8) NYR 3 – 1 WSH
  2. 19:02 Peter Bondra (28) Sergei Gonchar (12) NYR 3 – 2 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 13:15 Peter Bondra (29) Michal Pivonka (11), Mike Eagles (5) NYR 3 – 3 WSH
  2. 19:23 Brian Leetch (15) Niklas Sundstrom (17), Mark Messier (26) NYR 4 – 3 WSH
  3. 19:39 Adam Graves (15) Niklas Sundstrom (18), Mark Messier (27) NYR 5 – 3 WSH

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brian Leetch D 2 1 5 0 0 +3 0:00 2.80
Mark Messier C 0 3 2 0 0 +2 0:00 2.33
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 3 1 0 0 +1 0:00 2.10
Wayne Gretzky C 0 2 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.55
Adam Graves L 1 0 4 0 0 +3 0:00 1.50
Vladimir Vorobiev R 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Luc Robitaille L 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.40
Doug Lidster D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Bruce Driver D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Brian Noonan R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bill Berg L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Shane Churla R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.30
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Darren Langdon L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Healy W 40 37 3 .925 59:59 1.45

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Peter Bondra R 2 0 8 0 0 +1 0:00 2.10
Sylvain Cote D 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Michal Pivonka C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Steve Konowalchuk L 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Mike Eagles L 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 0 5 0 0 +1 0:00 0.53
Sergei Gonchar D 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.48
Dale Hunter C 0 1 0 0 0 -2 0:00 0.33
Ken Klee D 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Phil Housley D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Joe Reekie D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jason Allison C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.07
Kelly Miller L 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
Eric Charron D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Calle Johansson D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Joe Juneau C 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.23
Kevin Kaminski C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Chris Simon L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jim Carey — 7 4 3 .571 11:57 -1.85
Olie Kolzig L 20 19 1 .950 47:46 1.15