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Monday, April 7, 1997 · Centre Molson

Islanders 1 at Canadiens 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 80OVR Tommy Salo Islanders First Star 33 SV · .943 G 88OVR Jocelyn Thibault Canadiens Second Star 25 SV · .962 D 89OVR Vladimir Malakhov Canadiens Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:15 Vladimir Malakhov (9) PPG Valeri Bure (20), Saku Koivu (37) NYI 0 – 1 MTL

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 6:48 Todd Bertuzzi (10) Ken Belanger (2), Dennis Vaske (4) NYI 1 – 1 MTL
  2. 16:50 Benoit Brunet (10) Vladimir Malakhov (19), Martin Rucinsky (27) NYI 1 – 2 MTL

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Todd Bertuzzi R 1 0 4 +1 1.20
Dennis Vaske D 0 1 3 +1 0.85
Ken Belanger L 0 1 0 +1 0.78
Ziggy Palffy R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Travis Green C 0 0 3 0 0.22
Kenny Jonsson D 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 2 0 0.15
Dave Mcllwain C 0 0 1 0 0.08
Niklas Andersson L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Bryan Smolinski C 0 0 3 0 0.07
Brent Hughes L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Robert Reichel C 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Randy Wood R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Scott Lachance D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Rich Pilon D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Bryan McCabe D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Bryan Berard D 0 0 1 0 -0.22
Dan Plante R 0 0 0 0 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Salo L 35 33 2 .943 59:18 1.80

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Vladimir Malakhov D 1 1 4 +1 1.68
Martin Rucinsky L 0 1 3 +1 1.00
Benoit Brunet L 1 0 3 +1 0.98
Valeri Bure R 0 1 2 0 0.78
Saku Koivu C 0 1 1 0 0.70
Vincent Damphousse C 0 0 3 +1 0.23
Mark Recchi R 0 0 3 0 0.22
Shayne Corson L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Dave Manson D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 2 0 0.15
Scott Thornton L 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Marc Bureau C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Turner Stevenson R 0 0 2 -1 0.00
Brian Savage L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Peter Popovic D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jassen Cullimore D 0 0 1 -1 -0.38
Darcy Tucker R 0 0 1 -1 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault W 26 25 1 .962 60:00 1.75