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LAK

TD GARDEN

0FINAL4

December 18, 1996

NYR

Scoring Summary

1st Period

Luc Robitaille (12) (pp)

Wayne Gretzky (32), Alexander Karpovtsev (15)

1-0 NYR

Score

04:37

Time

Brian Leetch (9)

Wayne Gretzky (33), Niklas Sundstrom (10)

2-0 NYR

Score

12:16

Time

2nd Period

Mark Messier (16) (sh)

Unassisted

3-0 NYR

Score

03:16

Time

3rd Period

Luc Robitaille (13)

Wayne Gretzky (34), Ulf Samuelsson (7)

4-0 NYR

Score

09:42

Time

Penalties

1st Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	02:06	Ulf Samuelsson – roughing (2 min)
	04:00	Mattias Norstrom – tripping (2 min)
	17:06	Luc Robitaille – holding (2 min)

2nd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	02:38	Eric Cairns – roughing (2 min)
	09:50	Vitali Yachmenev – interference (2 min)
	10:39	Luc Robitaille – interference-goalkeeper (2 min)
	16:56	Steven Finn – holding (2 min)
	18:14	Mattias Norstrom – tripping (2 min)

3rd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	01:59	Brad Smyth – holding (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	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
5	Ulf Samuelsson	D	0	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
6	Doug Lidster	D	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
8	Patrick Flatley	R	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
9	Adam Graves	L	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
11	Mark Messier	C	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
13	Sergei Nemchinov	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
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	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
20	Luc Robitaille	L	2	0	2	2	4	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
23	Jeff Beukeboom	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
24	Niklas Sundstrom	R	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
25	Alexander Karpovtsev	D	0	1	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
29	Eric Cairns	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
37	Ryan Vandenbussche	R	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
99	Wayne Gretzky	C	0	3	3	2	0	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				37	37	0	0	0	0	1.000	0.00	60:00

LAK – 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	Rob Blake	D	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
6	Sean O'Donnell	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
8	Dmitri Khristich	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
9	Vladimir Tsyplakov	L	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
10	Neal Broten	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
11	Brad Smyth	R	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
14	Mattias Norstrom	D	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
15	Jaroslav Modry	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
17	Matt Johnson	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
20	Ray Ferraro	C	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
21	Kai Nurminen	L	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
22	Ian Laperriere	R	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
25	Kevin Stevens	L	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
28	Philippe Boucher	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
29	Steven Finn	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
41	Brent Grieve	L	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
42	Dan Bylsma	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
43	Vitali Yachmenev	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0

LAK – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
34	Byron Dafoe	★	L				19	23	4	2	1	1	.826	4.00	60:00
35	Stephane Fiset						0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	00:00

NYR

LAK

Game Stats

4	Goals	0
23	Shots	37
25.0% (1/4)	Power Play	0.0% (0/3)
8	Penalty Minutes	10
0	Hits	0
0	Blocks	0
0	Giveaways	0
0	Takeaways	0

Goals by Period

	1	2	3	T
	0	0	0	0
	2	1	1	4

Season Series: 2-0-0

LAK 0

NYR 4

FINALBoxscoreDEC 18

LAK 2

NYR 6

FINALBoxscoreMAR 6

As of December 18, 1996

All-Time vs LAK

Overall: 56-36-14-0
At NYR: 33-15-5-0

Last 10 vs LAK

Overall: 8-2-0
At NYR: 8-2-0