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Monday, March 3, 1997 · Madison Square Garden

Sharks 4 at Rangers 5

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 92OVR Niklas Sundstrom Rangers First Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG D 66OVR Ulf Samuelsson Rangers Second Star 2G · 3 SOG D 54OVR Greg Hawgood Sharks Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:44 Owen Nolan (27) PPG Jeff Friesen (26), Greg Hawgood (10) SJS 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 7:11 Bruce Driver (4) Unassisted SJS 1 – 1 NYR
  3. 13:49 Shean Donovan (6) Ron Sutter (5) SJS 2 – 1 NYR
  4. 18:48 Mark Messier (33) David Oliver (3), Adam Graves (24) SJS 2 – 2 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 3:39 Ulf Samuelsson (5) Wayne Gretzky (62), Niklas Sundstrom (23) SJS 2 – 3 NYR
  2. 14:57 Ulf Samuelsson (6) Patrick Flatley (10) SJS 2 – 4 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 3:56 Greg Hawgood (5) PPG Viktor Kozlov (22), Owen Nolan (27) SJS 3 – 4 NYR
  2. 19:08 Jeff Friesen (21) PPG Viktor Kozlov (23), Vlastimil Kroupa (3) SJS 4 – 4 NYR

Overtime

  1. 1:24 Niklas Sundstrom (20) Luc Robitaille (24) SJS 4 – 5 NYR

San Jose Sharks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Greg Hawgood D 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Owen Nolan R 1 1 7 0 0 -3 0:00 1.45
Shean Donovan R 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Jeff Friesen L 1 1 2 0 0 -3 0:00 1.08
Ron Sutter C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Viktor Kozlov C 0 2 1 0 0 -3 0:00 0.73
Vlastimil Kroupa D 0 1 0 0 0 -3 0:00 0.18
Darren Turcotte C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Tim Hunter R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Tony Granato R 0 0 7 0 0 -2 0:00 0.08
Marcus Ragnarsson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Bob Errey L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Stephen Guolla C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Todd Gill D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Doug Bodger D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Bernie Nicholls C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Dody Wood C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Marty McSorley D 0 0 1 0 0 -4 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Ed Belfour L 37 32 5 .865 61:24 -0.55

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Niklas Sundstrom R 1 1 7 0 0 +3 0:00 2.35
Ulf Samuelsson D 2 0 3 0 0 +3 0:00 2.18
Luc Robitaille L 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.15
Wayne Gretzky C 0 1 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.15
Bruce Driver D 1 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.13
Adam Graves L 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Mark Messier C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Patrick Flatley R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
David Oliver R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Brian Leetch D 0 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 0.45
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Doug Lidster D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Eastwood C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Chris Ferraro C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Bill Berg L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.15
Shane Churla R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 33 29 4 .879 61:24 -0.10