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Saturday, January 25, 1997 · Civic Arena

Rangers 7 at Penguins 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 98OVR Mark Messier Rangers First Star 1G · 3A · 5 SOG C 97OVR Wayne Gretzky Rangers Second Star 3A · 4 SOG L 90OVR Adam Graves Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:14 Petr Nedved (21) PPG Kevin Hatcher (27), J.J. Daigneault (13) NYR 0 – 1 PIT
  2. 19:08 Petr Nedved (22) PPG Tomas Sandstrom (15), Fredrik Olausson (21) NYR 0 – 2 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 6:59 Alexander Karpovtsev (5) PPG Mark Messier (28), Brian Leetch (37) NYR 1 – 2 PIT
  2. 10:53 Stu Barnes (12) Kevin Hatcher (28) NYR 1 – 3 PIT
  3. 14:05 Doug Lidster (2) Wayne Gretzky (49), Luc Robitaille (20) NYR 2 – 3 PIT
  4. 19:15 Luc Robitaille (21) PPG Wayne Gretzky (50), Brian Leetch (38) NYR 3 – 3 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 1:06 Joe Dziedzic (4) Stu Barnes (18), Alex Hicks (10) NYR 3 – 4 PIT
  2. 4:25 Mark Messier (27) Wayne Gretzky (51), Bruce Driver (16) NYR 4 – 4 PIT
  3. 6:52 Adam Graves (16) Vladimir Vorobiev (5), Mark Messier (29) NYR 5 – 4 PIT
  4. 18:11 Sergei Nemchinov (4) Brian Noonan (13), Bruce Driver (17) NYR 6 – 4 PIT
  5. 19:40 Vladimir Vorobiev (3) Mark Messier (30), Adam Graves (21) NYR 7 – 4 PIT

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mark Messier C 1 3 5 +2 3.15
Wayne Gretzky C 0 3 4 +1 2.33
Adam Graves L 1 1 7 +2 2.20
Vladimir Vorobiev R 1 1 2 +2 1.83
Bruce Driver D 0 2 2 +2 1.70
Luc Robitaille L 1 1 3 0 1.60
Brian Leetch D 0 2 1 +2 1.48
Brian Noonan R 0 1 3 +2 1.15
Doug Lidster D 1 0 1 +2 1.13
Sergei Nemchinov L 1 0 1 +1 0.83
Alexander Karpovtsev D 1 0 1 -1 0.53
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Bill Berg L 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Shane Churla R 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Darren Langdon L 0 0 1 -1 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 32 28 4 .875 60:00 -0.20

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Stu Barnes C 1 1 3 0 1.60
Petr Nedved C 2 0 5 -3 1.43
Kevin Hatcher D 0 2 3 -1 1.18
Joe Dziedzic L 1 0 2 0 0.90
Alex Hicks L 0 1 0 0 0.63
J.J. Daigneault D 0 1 1 0 0.55
Fredrik Olausson D 0 1 1 -2 0.40
Tyler Wright C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Tomas Sandstrom R 0 1 0 -3 0.18
Joe Mullen R 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Jaromir Jagr R 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Ron Francis C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Mario Lemieux C 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Francois Leroux D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jason Woolley D 0 0 5 -1 -0.07
Andreas Johansson L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Craig Muni D 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Dave Roche L 0 0 0 0 -1.13
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Patrick Lalime L 38 32 6 .842 59:33 -1.30