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Saturday, March 22, 1997 · Centre Molson

Capitals 3 at Canadiens 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 90OVR Rick Tocchet Capitals First Star 2G · 5 SOG G 43OVR Bill Ranford Capitals Second Star 28 SV · .966 L 79OVR Steve Konowalchuk Capitals Third Star 1G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 13:58 Rick Tocchet (19) Sylvain Cote (13), Brendan Witt (1) WSH 1 – 0 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 8:59 Rick Tocchet (20) Adam Oates (56) WSH 2 – 0 MTL
  2. 19:11 Steve Konowalchuk (14) SHG Ken Klee (8), Kelly Miller (12) WSH 3 – 0 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 6:32 Martin Rucinsky (25) Valeri Bure (18), Vincent Damphousse (51) WSH 3 – 1 MTL

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Rick Tocchet R 2 0 5 +2 2.18
Steve Konowalchuk L 1 0 3 +1 1.13
Adam Oates C 0 1 2 +2 0.93
Kelly Miller L 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Ken Klee D 0 1 1 +1 0.70
Brendan Witt D 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Sylvain Cote D 0 1 0 0 0.48
Joe Juneau C 0 0 0 +2 0.30
Todd Krygier L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Dale Hunter C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Eric Charron D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Stewart Malgunas D 0 0 1 +1 0.07
Craig Berube L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Mike Eagles L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Peter Bondra R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Calle Johansson D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Michal Pivonka C 0 0 2 -1 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bill Ranford W 29 28 1 .966 60:00 2.05

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Valeri Bure R 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Martin Rucinsky L 1 0 2 0 0.75
Vincent Damphousse C 0 1 2 0 0.63
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 3 0 0.22
Jassen Cullimore D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Dave Manson D 0 0 4 -1 0.15
Scott Thornton L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Turner Stevenson R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Mark Recchi R 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Brian Savage L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Benoit Brunet L 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Darcy Tucker R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Peter Popovic D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Shayne Corson L 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Marc Bureau C 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Stephane Richer R 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault L 20 17 3 .850 57:53 -0.55