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Friday, January 24, 1997 · Hartford Civic Center

Islanders 5 at Whalers 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 90OVR Derek King Whalers First Star 3G · 4 SOG C 89OVR Travis Green Islanders Second Star 3A · 5 SOG R 98OVR Ziggy Palffy Islanders Third Star 2G · 6 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 12:27 Ziggy Palffy (28) Unassisted NYI 1 – 0 HFD
  2. 16:29 Geoff Sanderson (25) Keith Primeau (17), Nelson Emerson (16) NYI 1 – 1 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 7:12 Derek King (16) Marty Mcinnis (15), Travis Green (21) NYI 2 – 1 HFD
  2. 16:29 Derek King (17) Travis Green (22) NYI 3 – 1 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 7:11 Derek King (18) Marty Mcinnis (16) NYI 4 – 1 HFD
  2. 16:03 Ziggy Palffy (29) Travis Green (23) NYI 5 – 1 HFD
  3. 19:29 Steven Rice (15) PPG Glen Wesley (18), Jeff O'Neill (12) NYI 5 – 2 HFD

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Derek King L 3 0 4 +3 3.00
Travis Green C 0 3 5 +4 2.70
Ziggy Palffy R 2 0 6 +1 2.10
Marty Mcinnis L 0 2 1 +3 1.63
Kenny Jonsson D 0 0 0 +3 0.45
Bryan McCabe D 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Derek Armstrong C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Bryan Smolinski C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Paul Kruse L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Rich Pilon D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Scott Lachance D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Bryan Berard D 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Niklas Andersson L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Todd Bertuzzi R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Doug Houda D 0 0 0 0 -0.38
Brent Hughes L 0 0 1 0 -0.45
Steve Webb R 0 0 0 0 -1.65
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Eric Fichaud W 36 34 2 .944 60:00 1.90

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Nelson Emerson R 0 1 6 0 1.08
Geoff Sanderson L 1 0 5 -1 0.98
Keith Primeau C 0 1 4 -1 0.78
Steven Rice R 1 0 5 -1 0.45
Glen Wesley D 0 1 2 -2 0.32
Kent Manderville C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Kevin Dineen R 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Andrew Cassels C 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Jeff O'Neill C 0 1 0 -3 0.03
Paul Ranheim L 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Curtis Leschyshyn D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Adam Burt D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Alexander Godynyuk D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Jason McBain D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Robert Kron C 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Stu Grimson L 0 0 0 0 -0.53
Kelly Chase R 0 0 0 0 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke L 31 27 4 .871 59:10 -0.30