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Friday, December 21, 2001 · Mellon Arena

Capitals 3 at Penguins 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 70OVR Stephane Richer Devils First Star 2A · 3 SOG C 88OVR Jan Hrdina Penguins Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG R 95OVR Peter Bondra Capitals Third Star 1G · 1A · 7 SOG · 4 HIT

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 8:10 Chris Simon (7) Peter Bondra (11) · Wrist WSH 1 – 0 PIT
  2. 12:58 Darius Kasparaitis (1) Kris Beech (12), Stephane Richer (3) · Tip-in WSH 1 – 1 PIT
  3. 14:10 Andrew Ference (1) Alex Kovalev (12), Jan Hrdina (9) · Slap WSH 1 – 2 PIT
  4. 19:57 Toby Petersen (6) Stephane Richer (4) · Wrist WSH 1 – 3 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 1:00 Jan Hrdina (10) Alex Kovalev (13), Josef Melichar (3) · Snap WSH 1 – 4 PIT
  2. 9:54 Peter Bondra (22) PPG Jaromir Jagr (17), Glen Metropolit (2) · Wrist WSH 2 – 4 PIT
  3. 12:51 Sergei Gonchar (11) PPG Adam Oates (27), Dmitri Khristich (4) · Slap WSH 3 – 4 PIT

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Peter Bondra R 1 1 7 4 0 -2 27:18 1.45
Sergei Gonchar D 1 0 4 0 0 -1 24:13 0.80
Dmitri Khristich R 0 1 1 1 1 0 14:59 0.75
Glen Metropolit C 0 1 2 0 0 -1 17:01 0.63
Adam Oates C 0 1 1 0 0 -1 21:09 0.50
Jaromir Jagr R 0 1 2 1 0 -2 22:18 0.32
Frantisek Kucera D 0 0 2 1 2 0 19:50 0.30
Ken Klee D 0 0 0 3 7 -1 19:57 0.20
Chris Simon L 1 0 1 0 0 -1 12:58 0.10
Brendan Witt D 0 0 0 0 5 -1 16:24 0.10
Jeff Halpern C 0 0 1 0 0 0 12:02 0.08
Matt Pettinger L 0 0 1 1 0 0 9:24 0.08
Trent Whitfield C 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:37 0.00
Joe Sacco L 0 0 2 0 0 0 5:08 -0.15
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 1 3 0 -2 18:12 -0.22
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 0 0 1 1 -2 18:59 -0.30
Joe Reekie D 0 0 0 2 0 -1 13:13 -0.30
Stephen Peat R 0 0 0 2 0 0 6:13 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Craig Billington L 6 5 1 .833 19:22 -0.25
Olie Kolzig — 16 13 3 .812 40:00 -0.95

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Stephane Richer R 0 2 3 0 0 +2 14:39 1.78
Jan Hrdina C 1 1 1 1 0 +1 19:16 1.55
Andrew Ference D 1 0 4 3 0 +3 22:25 1.35
Alex Kovalev R 0 2 4 0 0 +1 22:36 1.15
Josef Melichar D 0 1 1 2 0 +3 23:16 1.15
Toby Petersen C 1 0 1 0 1 +1 11:56 1.03
Kris Beech C 0 1 1 1 1 +1 15:56 0.90
Darius Kasparaitis D 1 0 1 5 4 +1 18:03 0.88
Robert Lang C 0 0 2 1 2 +1 23:57 0.35
Wayne Primeau C 0 0 1 4 0 +1 14:39 0.18
Janne Laukkanen D 0 0 1 1 1 0 17:53 0.18
Billy Tibbetts R 0 0 0 3 0 0 12:25 0.00
Milan Kraft C 0 0 0 0 0 0 8:26 0.00
Kevin Stevens L 0 0 0 2 0 0 9:06 0.00
John Jakopin D 0 0 0 2 1 0 11:53 0.00
Michal Rozsival D 0 0 1 1 0 0 19:56 -0.22
Dan Lacouture L 0 0 1 1 0 0 16:08 -0.30
Krzysztof Oliwa L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3:56 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Johan Hedberg W 25 22 3 .880 60:00 -0.05