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Wednesday, March 26, 1997 · Centre Molson

Penguins 5 at Canadiens 8

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 99OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins First Star 2G · 3A · 5 SOG C 96OVR Ron Francis Penguins Second Star 1G · 4A · 3 SOG R 95OVR Mark Recchi Canadiens Third Star 2G · 2A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:08 Shayne Corson (6) Mark Recchi (41) PIT 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 3:10 Turner Stevenson (7) Scott Thornton (8), Darcy Tucker (13) PIT 0 – 2 MTL
  3. 6:25 Stephane Richer (20) Benoit Brunet (9) PIT 0 – 3 MTL
  4. 8:16 Mark Recchi (32) Saku Koivu (34), Shayne Corson (15) PIT 0 – 4 MTL
  5. 19:12 Stephane Richer (21) PPG Marc Bureau (9) PIT 0 – 5 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 2:37 Ron Francis (23) PPG Mario Lemieux (62), Eddie Olczyk (24) PIT 1 – 5 MTL
  2. 3:29 Kevin Hatcher (15) Mario Lemieux (63), Ron Francis (54) PIT 2 – 5 MTL
  3. 8:15 Saku Koivu (15) PPG Vladimir Malakhov (17), Mark Recchi (42) PIT 2 – 6 MTL
  4. 8:50 Jason Woolley (5) Mario Lemieux (64), Ron Francis (55) PIT 3 – 6 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 1:47 Vincent Damphousse (26) Martin Rucinsky (26), Valeri Bure (19) PIT 3 – 7 MTL
  2. 9:13 Mark Recchi (33) Saku Koivu (35), Stephane Quintal (14) PIT 3 – 8 MTL
  3. 15:59 Mario Lemieux (45) Ron Francis (56), Kevin Hatcher (35) PIT 4 – 8 MTL
  4. 19:08 Mario Lemieux (46) PPG Ron Francis (57), Eddie Olczyk (25) PIT 5 – 8 MTL

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mario Lemieux C 2 3 5 +2 4.05
Ron Francis C 1 4 3 +2 3.78
Eddie Olczyk R 0 2 1 0 1.33
Kevin Hatcher D 1 1 2 -2 0.93
Jason Woolley D 1 0 2 0 0.90
Ian Moran D 0 0 5 -1 0.23
Fredrik Olausson D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Francois Leroux D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Joe Mullen R 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Joe Dziedzic L 0 0 2 -2 -0.15
Stu Barnes C 0 0 3 -3 -0.22
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Greg Johnson C 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Roman Oksiuta R 0 0 1 -3 -0.37
Chris Tamer D 0 0 2 -5 -0.60
Neil Wilkinson D 0 0 0 -3 -0.60
Jeffrey Christian L 0 0 2 -3 -0.83
Dave Roche L 0 0 0 -2 -1.20
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Philippe De Rouville L 28 24 4 .857 51:44 -0.60
Patrick Lalime — 5 1 4 .200 8:16 -2.90

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mark Recchi R 2 2 4 +3 3.35
Saku Koivu C 1 2 4 +3 2.75
Stephane Richer R 2 0 2 +1 1.80
Shayne Corson L 1 1 2 +2 1.38
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 1 4 +2 1.23
Benoit Brunet L 0 1 3 +2 1.15
Vincent Damphousse C 1 0 4 0 1.05
Turner Stevenson R 1 0 1 +1 0.98
Valeri Bure R 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Darcy Tucker R 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Scott Thornton L 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Marc Bureau C 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Stephane Quintal D 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Martin Rucinsky L 0 1 2 0 0.48
Peter Popovic D 0 0 0 +3 0.45
Jassen Cullimore D 0 0 1 +2 0.38
Brian Savage L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Craig Rivet D 0 0 0 +4 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault W 31 26 5 .839 60:00 -1.15