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Sunday, March 16, 1997 · Capital Centre

Whalers 3 at Capitals 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 54OVR Nelson Emerson Whalers First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG R 97OVR Peter Bondra Capitals Second Star 1G · 1A · 6 SOG L 72OVR Chris Simon Capitals Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:21 Phil Housley (10) Peter Bondra (26), Sylvain Cote (12) HFD 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 4:41 Calle Johansson (4) Joe Juneau (27), Chris Simon (12) HFD 0 – 2 WSH
  3. 17:49 Nelson Emerson (8) PPG Andrew Cassels (36), Steve Chiasson (16) HFD 1 – 2 WSH
  4. 19:59 Peter Bondra (42) Rick Tocchet (16), Adam Oates (55) HFD 1 – 3 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 12:22 Michal Pivonka (6) Craig Berube (2) HFD 1 – 4 WSH
  2. 18:49 Nelson Emerson (9) PPG Unassisted HFD 2 – 4 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 8:09 Kevin Dineen (17) PPG Nelson Emerson (25), Andrew Cassels (37) HFD 3 – 4 WSH
  2. 19:12 Steve Konowalchuk (13) Chris Simon (13), Dale Hunter (29) HFD 3 – 5 WSH

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Nelson Emerson R 2 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 2.28
Steve Chiasson D 0 1 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.63
Kevin Dineen R 1 0 4 0 0 -3 0:00 0.60
Robert Kron C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Andrew Cassels C 0 2 1 0 0 -3 0:00 0.13
Mark Janssens C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Paul Ranheim L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jeff Daniels L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Kent Manderville C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Glen Wesley D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Steven Rice R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Jeff O'Neill C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Marek Malik D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Gerald Diduck D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Kevin Haller D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Keith Primeau C 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Adam Burt D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke L 22 18 4 .818 58:55 -1.20

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Peter Bondra R 1 1 6 0 0 +3 0:00 2.13
Chris Simon L 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Calle Johansson D 1 0 3 0 0 +4 0:00 1.58
Steve Konowalchuk L 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Sylvain Cote D 0 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.08
Michal Pivonka C 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.05
Phil Housley D 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Craig Berube L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Adam Oates C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Joe Juneau C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Rick Tocchet R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 0 0 0 +3 0:00 0.30
Dale Hunter C 0 1 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.25
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Brendan Witt D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Andrew Brunette L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Eagles L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ken Klee D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bill Ranford W 26 23 3 .885 60:00 0.05