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Wednesday, March 19, 1997 · Madison Square Garden

Canadiens 5 at Rangers 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 92OVR Vincent Damphousse Canadiens First Star 1G · 2A · 6 SOG L 94OVR Martin Rucinsky Canadiens Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG L 89OVR Benoit Brunet Canadiens Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:35 Brian Savage (23) Peter Popovic (12) MTL 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 5:28 Stephane Quintal (6) Brian Savage (36), Mark Recchi (39) MTL 2 – 0 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 0:47 Russ Courtnall (10) PPG Alexander Karpovtsev (27), Mark Messier (44) MTL 2 – 1 NYR
  2. 5:17 Adam Graves (30) PPG Mark Messier (45), Russ Courtnall (21) MTL 2 – 2 NYR
  3. 11:45 Benoit Brunet (9) PPG Dave Manson (18), Vincent Damphousse (49) MTL 3 – 2 NYR
  4. 16:03 Wayne Gretzky (21) Niklas Sundstrom (25), Bill Berg (5) MTL 3 – 3 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 5:03 Martin Rucinsky (24) Vincent Damphousse (50), Benoit Brunet (8) MTL 4 – 3 NYR
  2. 9:00 Brian Leetch (19) Patrick Flatley (11), Mike Eastwood (7) MTL 4 – 4 NYR
  3. 10:08 Vincent Damphousse (24) Valeri Bure (17), Martin Rucinsky (24) MTL 5 – 4 NYR

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Vincent Damphousse C 1 2 6 0 0 +3 0:00 2.75
Martin Rucinsky L 1 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.98
Benoit Brunet L 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Brian Savage L 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Valeri Bure R 0 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Dave Manson D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Peter Popovic D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Mark Recchi R 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Jassen Cullimore D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Marc Bureau C 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Shayne Corson L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Turner Stevenson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Darcy Tucker R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Stephane Quintal D 1 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.00
Stephane Richer R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Scott Thornton L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault W 31 27 4 .871 60:00 -0.30

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Russ Courtnall R 1 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 1.38
Mark Messier C 0 2 4 0 0 -2 0:00 1.25
Adam Graves L 1 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.98
Brian Leetch D 1 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Patrick Flatley R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Mike Eastwood C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Bill Berg L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Wayne Gretzky C 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.60
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Shane Churla R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
David Oliver R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Esa Tikkanen L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bruce Driver D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.53
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter L 39 34 5 .872 59:00 -0.35