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HFD

TD GARDEN

2FINAL5

December 16, 1996

NYR

Scoring Summary

1st Period

Bill Berg (5)

Patrick Flatley (7)

1-0 NYR

Score

01:21

Time

Luc Robitaille (11) (pp)

Wayne Gretzky (31), Brian Noonan (10)

2-0 NYR

Score

03:44

Time

Adam Graves (11) (sh)

Mark Messier (15)

3-0 NYR

Score

11:36

Time

2nd Period

Doug Lidster (1)

Unassisted

4-0 NYR

Score

11:07

Time

3rd Period

Wayne Gretzky (14)

Niklas Sundstrom (9), Jeff Beukeboom (4)

5-0 NYR

Score

00:38

Time

Jeff O'Neill (10)

Curtis Leschyshyn (7), Paul Ranheim (4)

5-1 NYR

Score

03:18

Time

Geoff Sanderson (19) (pp)

Kevin Haller (6), Adam Burt (7)

5-2 NYR

Score

14:57

Time

Penalties

1st Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	03:12	Kevin Haller – hooking-obstruction (2 min)
	11:00	Niklas Sundstrom – cross-checking (2 min)
	13:57	Sergei Nemchinov – hooking-obstruction (2 min)
	19:30	Curtis Leschyshyn – roughing (2 min)
	19:30	Keith Primeau – roughing (2 min)
	19:30	Adam Graves – roughing (2 min)
	19:30	Adam Graves – roughing (2 min)

2nd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
No penalties recorded for this period.

3rd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	05:55	Kevin Haller – roughing (2 min)
	05:55	Wayne Gretzky – roughing (2 min)
	09:18	Stu Grimson – interference (2 min)
	09:18	Stu Grimson – fighting (5 min)
	09:18	Shane Churla – instigator (2 min)
	09:18	Shane Churla – fighting (5 min)
	09:18	Shane Churla – misconduct (10 min)
	09:18	Brian Noonan – game-misconduct (10 min)
	13:16	Kevin Dineen – elbowing (2 min)
	13:16	Glen Featherstone – misconduct (10 min)
	13:16	Alexander Karpovtsev – roughing (2 min)
	13:16	Alexander Karpovtsev – roughing (2 min)
	19:59	Stu Grimson – roughing (2 min)

NYR – Skaters
#	Player	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	1G	OTG	GWG	ENG	S	FO	FO%	Shifts	TOI	Hits	BLK	GV	TK
2	Brian Leetch	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
5	Ulf Samuelsson	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
6	Doug Lidster	D	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
8	Patrick Flatley	R	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
9	Adam Graves	L	1	0	1	1	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	5	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
11	Mark Messier	C	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
13	Sergei Nemchinov	L	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
16	Daniel Goneau	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
18	Bill Berg	L	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
20	Luc Robitaille	L	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
22	Shane Churla	R	0	0	0	0	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
23	Jeff Beukeboom	D	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
24	Niklas Sundstrom	R	0	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
25	Alexander Karpovtsev	D	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
27	Alex Kovalev	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
28	Brian Noonan	R	0	1	1	0	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
33	Bruce Driver	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
99	Wayne Gretzky	C	1	1	2	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0

NYR – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
30	Glenn Healy						0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	00:00
35	Mike Richter	★	W				39	41	2	1	1	0	.951	2.00	60:00

HFD – Skaters
#	Player	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	1G	OTG	GWG	ENG	S	FO	FO%	Shifts	TOI	Hits	BLK	GV	TK
4	Gerald Diduck	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
5	Alexander Godynyuk	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
6	Adam Burt	D	0	1	1	-3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
7	Curtis Leschyshyn	D	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
8	Geoff Sanderson	L	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
11	Kevin Dineen	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
12	Steven Rice	R	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
14	Kevin Haller	D	0	1	1	-2	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
16	Nelson Emerson	R	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
18	Robert Kron	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
21	Andrew Cassels	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
22	Mark Janssens	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
28	Paul Ranheim	L	0	1	1	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
32	Stu Grimson	L	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
36	Glen Featherstone	D	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
37	Jeff Daniels	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
55	Keith Primeau	C	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
92	Jeff O'Neill	C	1	0	1	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0

HFD – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
29	Jason Muzzatti	★	L				10	13	3	1	1	1	.769	15.52	11:36
47	Jean-Sebastien Giguere						19	21	2	2	0	0	.905	2.48	48:24

NYR

HFD

Game Stats

5	Goals	2
34	Shots	41
14.3% (1/7)	Power Play	33.3% (1/3)
41	Penalty Minutes	29
0	Hits	0
0	Blocks	0
0	Giveaways	0
0	Takeaways	0

Goals by Period

	1	2	3	T
	0	0	2	2
	3	1	1	5

Season Series: 2-2-0

HFD 2

NYR 5

FINALBoxscoreDEC 16

HFD 2

NYR 5

FINALBoxscoreFEB 5

HFD 7

NYR 2

FINALBoxscoreFEB 21

HFD 2

NYR 1

FINALBoxscoreMAR 29

As of December 16, 1996

All-Time vs HFD

Overall: 27-20-6-3
At NYR: 17-7-3-2

Last 10 vs HFD

Overall: 5-4-1-0
At NYR: 6-3-1-0