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Thursday, March 6, 1997 · Capital Centre

Avalanche 3 at Capitals 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 97OVR Peter Bondra Capitals First Star 4G · 8 SOG C 81OVR Joe Juneau Capitals Second Star 4A · 1 SOG C 98OVR Peter Forsberg Avalanche Third Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:40 Adam Oates (20) Mark Tinordi (4), Joe Juneau (23) COL 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 19:53 Peter Forsberg (17) Claude Lemieux (13), Adam Foote (13) COL 1 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 5:05 Peter Bondra (37) Andrei Nikolishin (15), Michal Pivonka (15) COL 1 – 2 WSH
  2. 6:12 Mike Ricci (11) Stephane Yelle (14), Mike Keane (14) COL 2 – 2 WSH
  3. 7:06 Michal Pivonka (5) PPG Joe Juneau (24) COL 2 – 3 WSH
  4. 7:37 Valeri Kamensky (21) Claude Lemieux (14), Peter Forsberg (45) COL 3 – 3 WSH
  5. 11:37 Peter Bondra (38) PPG Joe Juneau (25), Phil Housley (24) COL 3 – 4 WSH
  6. 13:50 Peter Bondra (39) Mark Tinordi (5), Bill Ranford (1) COL 3 – 5 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 8:37 Peter Bondra (40) PPG Joe Juneau (26), Sylvain Cote (10) COL 3 – 6 WSH

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Peter Forsberg C 1 1 5 +1 1.90
Claude Lemieux R 0 2 5 +1 1.78
Stephane Yelle C 0 1 4 +1 1.08
Mike Ricci C 1 0 3 +1 0.98
Valeri Kamensky L 1 0 3 -1 0.83
Mike Keane R 0 1 1 +1 0.70
Adam Foote D 0 1 1 0 0.55
Scott Young R 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Jon Klemm D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Eric Lacroix L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Sylvain Lefebvre D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Alexei Gusarov D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Adam Deadmarsh R 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Joe Sakic C 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Rene Corbet L 0 0 1 +1 -0.15
Aaron Miller D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Sandis Ozolinsh D 0 0 1 0 -0.22
Keith Jones R 0 0 0 -2 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Craig Billington L 30 24 6 .800 59:51 -2.10

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Peter Bondra R 4 0 8 +1 3.75
Joe Juneau C 0 4 1 0 2.58
Michal Pivonka C 1 1 3 +1 1.75
Mark Tinordi D 0 2 2 0 1.25
Adam Oates C 1 0 4 -1 0.90
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 1 1 +2 0.85
Phil Housley D 0 1 3 -1 0.70
Sylvain Cote D 0 1 0 -1 0.32
Calle Johansson D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Ken Klee D 0 0 1 +2 0.23
Todd Krygier L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Kelly Miller L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Andrew Brunette L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dale Hunter C 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Mike Eagles L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Craig Berube L 0 0 1 0 -0.22
Brendan Witt D 0 0 0 -1 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bill Ranford W 31 28 3 .903 60:00 0.55