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NYR

TD GARDEN

3FINAL/OT2

December 21, 1996

MTL

Scoring Summary

1st Period

Mark Recchi (15)

Stephane Richer (10), Patrice Brisebois (10)

1-0 MTL

Score

06:07

Time

2nd Period

Ulf Samuelsson (3)

Wayne Gretzky (35), Niklas Sundstrom (11)

1-1 Tied

Score

09:16

Time

Vincent Damphousse (10) (pp)

Vladimir Malakhov (15), Martin Rucinsky (15)

2-1 MTL

Score

15:28

Time

Niklas Sundstrom (13)

Wayne Gretzky (36), Alexander Karpovtsev (16)

2-2 Tied

Score

18:33

Time

Overtime Period

Luc Robitaille (14)

Wayne Gretzky (37), Niklas Sundstrom (12)

3-2 NYR

Score

00:42

Time

Penalties

1st Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	12:25	Chris Murray – cross-checking (2 min)
	15:22	Ulf Samuelsson – elbowing (2 min)
	18:02	Scott Thornton – cross-checking (2 min)
	19:03	Brian Leetch – hooking (2 min)

2nd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	01:29	Scott Thornton – fighting (5 min)
	01:29	Shane Churla – fighting (5 min)
	04:53	Chris Murray – high-sticking (2 min)
	14:04	Alex Kovalev – hooking-obstruction (2 min)

3rd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	10:27	Wayne Gretzky – roughing (2 min)
	15:20	Team – too-many-men-on-the-ice (2 min)

MTL – Skaters
#	Player	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	1G	OTG	GWG	ENG	S	FO	FO%	Shifts	TOI	Hits	BLK	GV	TK
3	David Wilkie	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
5	Stephane Quintal	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
8	Mark Recchi	R	1	0	1	-2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
15	Pierre Sevigny	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	Valeri Bure	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
22	Chris Murray	R	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
24	Scott Thornton	L	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
25	Vincent Damphousse	C	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
26	Martin Rucinsky	L	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
30	Turner Stevenson	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
34	Peter Popovic	D	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
35	Jassen Cullimore	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
36	Murray Baron	D	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
38	Vladimir Malakhov	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
43	Patrice Brisebois	D	0	1	1	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
44	Stephane Richer	R	0	1	1	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
49	Brian Savage	L	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
71	Sebastien Bordeleau	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

MTL – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	OT	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
39	Pat Jablonski							0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	00:00
41	Jocelyn Thibault	★	L					22	25	3	3	0	0	.880	2.97	60:42

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	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
5	Ulf Samuelsson	D	1	0	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	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
9	Adam Graves	L	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
11	Mark Messier	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
13	Sergei Nemchinov	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
16	Daniel Goneau	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
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	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	5	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
22	Shane Churla	R	0	0	0	0	5	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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
24	Niklas Sundstrom	R	1	2	3	2	0	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	1	1	2	0	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	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	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
33	Bruce Driver	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
99	Wayne Gretzky	C	0	3	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0

NYR – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	OT	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					27	29	2	1	1	0	.931	1.98	60:32

MTL

NYR

Game Stats

2	Goals	3
29	Shots	25
33.3% (1/3)	Power Play	0.0% (0/4)
11	Penalty Minutes	13
0	Hits	0
0	Blocks	0
0	Giveaways	0
0	Takeaways	0

Goals by Period

	1	2	3	OT	T
	0	2	0	1	3
	1	1	0	0	2

Season Series: 2-2-0

MTL 5

NYR 2

FINALBoxscoreOCT 12

MTL 2

NYR 6

FINALBoxscoreDEC 1

MTL 2

NYR 3

FINAL OTBoxscoreDEC 21

MTL 5

NYR 4

FINALBoxscoreMAR 19

As of December 21, 1996

All-Time vs MTL

Overall: 168-287-89-7
At MTL: 112-105-54-4

Last 10 vs MTL

Overall: 3-4-3-0
At MTL: 6-0-4-0