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Sunday, February 23, 1997 · McNichols Sports Arena

Senators 3 at Avalanche 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 98OVR Peter Forsberg Avalanche First Star 2A · 1 SOG R 73OVR Claude Lemieux Avalanche Second Star 1G · 4 SOG G 51OVR Damian Rhodes Senators Third Star 20 SV · .952

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 18:43 Shaun Van Allen (7) Janne Laukkanen (16), Jason York (15) OTT 1 – 0 COL

2nd Period

  1. 11:08 Eric Lacroix (17) PPG Mike Ricci (15), Adam Deadmarsh (21) OTT 1 – 1 COL

3rd Period

  1. 2:37 Tom Chorske (10) Frantisek Musil (5) OTT 2 – 1 COL
  2. 5:01 Sergei Zholtok (9) PPG Daniel Alfredsson (33), Steve Duchesne (22) OTT 3 – 1 COL
  3. 13:53 Claude Lemieux (6) Peter Forsberg (41), Valeri Kamensky (28) OTT 3 – 2 COL
  4. 15:42 Scott Young (17) Joe Sakic (43), Alexei Gusarov (11) OTT 3 – 3 COL
  5. 16:14 Sandis Ozolinsh (20) Peter Forsberg (42) OTT 3 – 4 COL

Ottawa Senators

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Daniel Alfredsson R 0 1 5 +1 1.15
Tom Chorske R 1 0 3 +1 1.13
Sergei Zholtok C 1 0 1 0 0.83
Shaun Van Allen C 1 0 1 0 0.83
Steve Duchesne D 0 1 2 0 0.78
Janne Laukkanen D 0 1 2 -1 0.48
Frantisek Musil D 0 1 0 0 0.33
Jason York D 0 1 0 -1 0.18
Radek Bonk C 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Randy Cunneyworth L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bruce Gardiner R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Wade Redden D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Alexei Yashin C 0 0 4 -2 0.00
Denny Lambert L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Alexandre Daigle R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Lance Pitlick D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Andreas Dackell R 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Shawn McEachern L 0 0 2 -2 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Damian Rhodes — 21 20 1 .952 40:00 1.25
Ron Tugnutt L 13 10 3 .769 19:15 -1.25

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Peter Forsberg C 0 2 1 +2 1.63
Claude Lemieux R 1 0 4 +2 1.35
Joe Sakic C 0 1 6 +1 1.22
Sandis Ozolinsh D 1 0 5 +1 1.13
Valeri Kamensky L 0 1 2 +2 1.08
Scott Young R 1 0 1 +1 0.98
Adam Deadmarsh R 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Eric Lacroix L 1 0 2 0 0.90
Alexei Gusarov D 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Mike Ricci C 0 1 3 -2 0.55
Keith Jones R 0 0 4 0 0.15
Jon Klemm D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Brent Severyn L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Adam Foote D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Sylvain Lefebvre D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Rene Corbet L 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Mike Keane R 0 0 1 -2 -0.22
Stephane Yelle C 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Patrick Roy W 23 20 3 .870 60:00 -0.25