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Sunday, April 6, 1997 · Capital Centre

Panthers 3 at Capitals 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 73OVR Dale Hunter Capitals First Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG G 83OVR Mark Fitzpatrick Panthers Second Star 32 SV · .914 C 67OVR Andrei Nikolishin Capitals Third Star 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:28 Calle Johansson (5) Mark Tinordi (6) FLA 0 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 0:48 Johan Garpenlov (11) Rob Niedermayer (23), Scott Mellanby (29) FLA 1 – 1 WSH
  2. 5:57 Dave Lowry (13) Steve Washburn (5), Ray Sheppard (29) FLA 2 – 1 WSH
  3. 15:48 Dale Hunter (13) PPG Sylvain Cote (14), Andrei Nikolishin (17) FLA 2 – 2 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 12:52 Mike Hough (8) Gord Murphy (15), Rhett Warrener (7) FLA 3 – 2 WSH
  2. 19:10 Peter Bondra (44) Dale Hunter (31), Kelly Miller (13) FLA 3 – 3 WSH

Overtime

No scoring

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Steve Washburn C 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Ray Sheppard R 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Rhett Warrener D 0 1 0 +2 0.93
Dave Lowry L 1 0 2 +1 0.90
Gord Murphy D 0 1 3 +1 0.85
Johan Garpenlov L 1 0 1 0 0.83
Scott Mellanby R 0 1 2 0 0.78
Rob Niedermayer C 0 1 1 0 0.70
Mike Hough L 1 0 1 0 0.38
Kirk Muller L 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Bill Lindsay L 0 0 2 0 0.15
Jody Hull R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Robert Svehla D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Radek Dvorak R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Ed Jovanovski D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Terry Carkner D 0 0 0 -1 -0.45
Paul Laus D 0 0 1 0 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mark Fitzpatrick T 35 32 3 .914 65:00 0.95

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dale Hunter C 1 1 1 0 1.00
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Mark Tinordi D 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Calle Johansson D 1 0 2 0 0.90
Kelly Miller L 0 1 2 0 0.78
Peter Bondra R 1 0 4 -1 0.75
Sylvain Cote D 0 1 3 0 0.70
Phil Housley D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Pat Peake C 0 0 3 +1 0.08
Jaroslav Svejkovsky R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Brendan Witt D 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Mike Eagles L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ken Klee D 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Adam Oates C 0 0 3 -2 -0.08
Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 3 0 -0.08
Joe Reekie D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Craig Berube L 0 0 0 0 -0.38
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 0 2 -2 -1.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bill Ranford T 23 20 3 .870 64:29 -0.25