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Friday, February 21, 1997 · Hartford Civic Center

Rangers 2 at Whalers 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 91OVR Sean Burke Whalers First Star 36 SV · .947 D 57OVR Kevin Haller Whalers Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 88OVR Andrew Cassels Whalers Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:10 Kelly Chase (1) Paul Ranheim (10), Kevin Haller (9) NYR 0 – 1 HFD
  2. 11:01 Kevin Haller (2) Paul Ranheim (11), Kent Manderville (4) NYR 0 – 2 HFD
  3. 11:14 Steven Rice (17) Keith Primeau (21) NYR 0 – 3 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 3:12 Keith Primeau (18) Unassisted NYR 0 – 4 HFD
  2. 17:20 Andrew Cassels (17) Nelson Emerson (22), Glen Wesley (24) NYR 0 – 5 HFD
  3. 17:54 Wayne Gretzky (17) Doug Lidster (2), Mike Eastwood (4) NYR 1 – 5 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 0:49 Glen Wesley (4) Kevin Dineen (26), Andrew Cassels (33) NYR 1 – 6 HFD
  2. 13:18 Adam Graves (22) Mark Messier (34), Sergei Nemchinov (12) NYR 2 – 6 HFD
  3. 16:00 Sami Kapanen (7) Unassisted NYR 2 – 7 HFD

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Adam Graves L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Doug Lidster D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Wayne Gretzky C 1 0 7 0 0 -3 0:00 0.83
Mike Eastwood C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Brian Leetch D 0 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 0.60
Mark Messier C 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Bruce Driver D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bill Berg L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Vladimir Vorobiev R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Luc Robitaille L 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Brian Noonan R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Eric Cairns D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 0 3 0 0 -6 0:00 -0.68
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.42
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 1 0 0 -5 0:00 -1.88
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glenn Healy — 19 15 4 .789 48:46 -1.50
Mike Richter L 13 10 3 .769 11:14 -1.25

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Kevin Haller D 1 1 4 0 0 +3 0:00 1.98
Andrew Cassels C 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.83
Keith Primeau C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Paul Ranheim L 0 2 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.78
Glen Wesley D 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.53
Sami Kapanen R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Kevin Dineen R 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.00
Kent Manderville C 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Steven Rice R 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Nelson Emerson R 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Kelly Chase R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.45
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Curtis Leschyshyn D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Adam Burt D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Jeff O'Neill C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Glen Featherstone D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.83
Stu Grimson L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.98
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke W 38 36 2 .947 60:00 2.10