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Friday, April 11, 1997 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Whalers 4 at Islanders 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 85OVR Robert Reichel Islanders First Star 2G · 1A · 8 SOG C 60OVR Claude Lapointe Islanders Second Star 2G · 2 SOG C 49OVR Robert Kron Whalers Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:57 Sami Kapanen (12) Keith Primeau (24) HFD 1 – 0 NYI
  2. 9:40 Bryan Smolinski (27) Robert Reichel (40), Doug Houda (6) HFD 1 – 1 NYI
  3. 11:51 Claude Lapointe (12) Dan Plante (8) HFD 1 – 2 NYI
  4. 18:15 Travis Green (23) PPG Niklas Andersson (31), Bryan McCabe (20) HFD 1 – 3 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 4:42 Sami Kapanen (13) PPG Keith Primeau (25) HFD 2 – 3 NYI
  2. 10:16 Robert Reichel (20) Ziggy Palffy (42), Bryan Berard (40) HFD 2 – 4 NYI
  3. 17:22 Claude Lapointe (13) SHG Randy Wood (5) HFD 2 – 5 NYI
  4. 18:49 Robert Reichel (21) SHG Unassisted HFD 2 – 6 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 1:49 Steven Rice (21) Robert Kron (11), Nelson Emerson (29) HFD 3 – 6 NYI
  2. 16:48 Robert Kron (10) Derek King (33) HFD 4 – 6 NYI

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Robert Kron C 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Sami Kapanen R 2 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.58
Keith Primeau C 0 2 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.33
Steven Rice R 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Nelson Emerson R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Derek King L 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Adam Burt D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Chris Murray R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Kent Manderville C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Alexander Godynyuk D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Steve Chiasson D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Geoff Sanderson L 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Kevin Dineen R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Glen Wesley D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Andrew Cassels C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Curtis Leschyshyn D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Kevin Haller D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Stu Grimson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Sean Burke L 21 15 6 .714 40:00 -3.00
Jason Muzzatti — 6 6 0 1.000 15:22 0.60

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Robert Reichel C 2 1 8 0 0 +2 0:00 3.03
Claude Lapointe C 2 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.80
Bryan Smolinski C 1 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.28
Randy Wood R 0 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.00
Ziggy Palffy R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Bryan McCabe D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Dan Plante R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Bryan Berard D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Travis Green C 1 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.68
Doug Houda D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Scott Lachance D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.38
Niklas Andersson L 0 1 0 0 0 -2 0:00 0.33
Dennis Vaske D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Brent Hughes L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Kenny Jonsson D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Steve Webb R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ken Belanger L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.38
Todd Bertuzzi R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Eric Fichaud W 32 28 4 .875 60:00 -0.20