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Tuesday, March 4, 1997 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Lightning 6 at Islanders 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 90OVR Dino Ciccarelli Lightning First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG C 81OVR Chris Gratton Lightning Second Star 2G · 4 SOG L 80OVR Niklas Andersson Islanders Third Star 3A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:58 Todd Bertuzzi (3) Niklas Andersson (21), Kenny Jonsson (16) TBL 0 – 1 NYI
  2. 4:42 Dino Ciccarelli (27) Daymond Langkow (13) TBL 1 – 1 NYI
  3. 8:57 Chris Gratton (23) Patrick Poulin (13), Rudy Poeschek (4) TBL 2 – 1 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 0:31 John Cullen (15) PPG Dino Ciccarelli (21), Roman Hamrlik (23) TBL 3 – 1 NYI
  2. 10:45 Rob Zamuner (12) John Cullen (32) TBL 4 – 1 NYI
  3. 11:54 Bryan Berard (7) Niklas Andersson (22) TBL 4 – 2 NYI
  4. 19:57 Dino Ciccarelli (28) Unassisted TBL 5 – 2 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 1:33 Bryan Smolinski (20) Bryan Berard (32), Niklas Andersson (23) TBL 5 – 3 NYI
  2. 19:41 Chris Gratton (24) Rudy Poeschek (5) TBL 6 – 3 NYI

Tampa Bay Lightning

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dino Ciccarelli R 2 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 2.58
Chris Gratton C 2 0 4 0 0 +3 0:00 2.25
John Cullen C 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.83
Rudy Poeschek D 0 2 0 0 0 +1 0:00 1.25
Rob Zamuner L 1 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Patrick Poulin L 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Daymond Langkow C 0 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.78
Bill Houlder D 0 0 4 0 0 +3 0:00 0.75
Roman Hamrlik D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.32
Cory Cross D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Jeff Toms L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Shawn Burr L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Igor Ulanov D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.00
David Shaw D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mikael Andersson R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Jason Wiemer C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Brantt Myhres R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.23
Drew Bannister D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rick Tabaracci W 31 28 3 .903 60:00 0.55

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Niklas Andersson L 0 3 3 0 0 +1 0:00 2.10
Bryan Berard D 1 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 1.53
Bryan Smolinski C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Kenny Jonsson D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Todd Bertuzzi R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.90
Paul Kruse L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Bryan McCabe D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Randy Wood R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dan Plante R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Marty Mcinnis L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Rich Pilon D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Travis Green C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Doug Houda D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Derek King L 0 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.22
Ziggy Palffy R 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Scott Lachance D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Steve Webb R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Eric Fichaud — 10 9 1 .900 27:27 0.15
Tommy Salo L 17 13 4 .765 30:45 -1.70