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Wednesday, February 5, 1997 · Madison Square Garden

Whalers 2 at Rangers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 97OVR Wayne Gretzky Rangers First Star 4A · 3 SOG L 89OVR Luc Robitaille Rangers Second Star 2G · 1A · 7 SOG D 99OVR Brian Leetch Rangers Third Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:23 Steven Rice (16) Unassisted HFD 1 – 0 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 8:38 Adam Graves (18) PPG Wayne Gretzky (53), Brian Leetch (43) HFD 1 – 1 NYR
  2. 13:55 Luc Robitaille (22) Wayne Gretzky (54), Niklas Sundstrom (20) HFD 1 – 2 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 3:54 Adam Graves (19) Mark Messier (32), Brian Leetch (44) HFD 1 – 3 NYR
  2. 6:21 Brian Leetch (16) Wayne Gretzky (55), Luc Robitaille (22) HFD 1 – 4 NYR
  3. 11:32 Luc Robitaille (23) Niklas Sundstrom (21), Wayne Gretzky (56) HFD 1 – 5 NYR
  4. 19:57 Hnat Domenichelli (2) PPG Glen Featherstone (4), Kevin Dineen (23) HFD 2 – 5 NYR

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Steven Rice R 1 0 7 +1 1.43
Hnat Domenichelli L 1 0 3 0 0.98
Kevin Dineen R 0 1 2 0 0.63
Glen Featherstone D 0 1 3 -2 0.55
Keith Primeau C 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Jeff O'Neill C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Curtis Leschyshyn D 0 0 6 -3 0.00
Nelson Emerson R 0 0 1 +1 -0.08
Paul Ranheim L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Alexander Godynyuk D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Marek Malik D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Kent Manderville C 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Andrew Cassels C 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Kevin Brown R 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Stu Grimson L 0 0 0 -1 -0.53
Kevin Haller D 0 0 1 0 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke L 42 37 5 .881 52:11 -0.05
Jason Muzzatti — 2 2 0 1.000 7:49 0.20

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Wayne Gretzky C 0 4 3 +3 3.03
Luc Robitaille L 2 1 7 +3 2.95
Brian Leetch D 1 2 2 +1 2.30
Adam Graves L 2 0 6 +1 1.80
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 2 0 +3 1.70
Mark Messier C 0 1 4 0 0.93
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 0 6 +1 0.60
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 5 0 0.38
Bruce Driver D 0 0 3 +1 0.23
Vladimir Vorobiev R 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Bill Berg L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Patrick Flatley R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Sylvain Blouin L 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 1 +1 -0.08
Brian Noonan R 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Darren Langdon L 0 0 1 -1 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 34 32 2 .941 60:00 1.70