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FLA

TD GARDEN

3FINAL7

December 22, 1996

NYR

Scoring Summary

1st Period

Alex Kovalev (10)

Adam Graves (13), Mark Messier (16)

1-0 NYR

Score

04:24

Time

Ray Sheppard (14)

Martin Straka (14)

1-1 Tied

Score

05:02

Time

Niklas Sundstrom (14)

Wayne Gretzky (38), Luc Robitaille (15)

2-1 NYR

Score

07:01

Time

Alexander Karpovtsev (2) (pp)

Adam Graves (14), Brian Leetch (26)

3-1 NYR

Score

19:39

Time

2nd Period

Mark Messier (17) (sh)

Brian Leetch (27)

4-1 NYR

Score

07:44

Time

Mark Messier (18)

Brian Leetch (28), Alex Kovalev (15)

5-1 NYR

Score

15:19

Time

Alex Kovalev (11)

Brian Leetch (29), Mark Messier (17)

6-1 NYR

Score

19:16

Time

3rd Period

Niklas Sundstrom (15)

Luc Robitaille (16)

7-1 NYR

Score

04:42

Time

Ray Sheppard (15)

Dave Lowry (9), Martin Straka (15)

7-2 NYR

Score

15:24

Time

Ray Sheppard (16) (pp)

Martin Straka (16)

7-3 NYR

Score

19:28

Time

Penalties

1st Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	02:21	Team – too-many-men-on-the-ice (2 min)
	17:49	Terry Carkner – tripping (2 min)

2nd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	02:28	Terry Carkner – charging (2 min)
	02:28	Patrick Flatley – roughing (2 min)
	07:10	Bruce Driver – interference (2 min)
	11:32	Ed Jovanovski – roughing (2 min)
	11:32	Shane Churla – cross-checking (2 min)
	11:32	Shane Churla – roughing (2 min)
	15:04	Chris Wells – cross-checking (2 min)
	15:04	Luc Robitaille – slashing (2 min)

3rd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	17:46	Jeff Beukeboom – 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	0	4	4	6	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	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	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	-1	2	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	2	2	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
11	Mark Messier	C	2	2	4	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	7	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
13	Sergei Nemchinov	L	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
16	Daniel Goneau	L	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
18	Bill Berg	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
20	Luc Robitaille	L	0	2	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
22	Shane Churla	R	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
23	Jeff Beukeboom	D	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
24	Niklas Sundstrom	R	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
25	Alexander Karpovtsev	D	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
27	Alex Kovalev	R	2	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	6	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	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
33	Bruce Driver	D	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
99	Wayne Gretzky	C	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	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				28	31	3	2	1	0	.903	3.00	60:00

FLA – 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	Terry Carkner	D	0	0	0	-3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
3	Paul Laus	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
5	Gord Murphy	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
7	Rhett Warrener	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
10	Dave Lowry	L	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
11	Bill Lindsay	L	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
12	Jody Hull	R	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
18	Mike Hough	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
19	Radek Dvorak	R	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
20	Brian Skrudland	C	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
21	Tom Fitzgerald	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
23	Chris Wells	C	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
24	Robert Svehla	D	0	0	0	-4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
26	Ray Sheppard	R	3	0	3	-1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
27	Scott Mellanby	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
28	Martin Straka	C	0	3	3	-1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
29	Johan Garpenlov	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
55	Ed Jovanovski	D	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

FLA – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
30	Mark Fitzpatrick						8	9	1	1	0	0	.889	3.00	20:00
34	John Vanbiesbrouck	★	L				23	29	6	4	1	1	.793	9.00	40:00

NYR

FLA

Game Stats

7	Goals	3
38	Shots	31
20.0% (1/5)	Power Play	33.3% (1/3)
12	Penalty Minutes	8
0	Hits	0
0	Blocks	0
0	Giveaways	0
0	Takeaways	0

Goals by Period

	1	2	3	T
	1	0	2	3
	3	3	1	7

Season Series: 1-3-2

FLA 5

NYR 2

FINALBoxscoreOCT 6

FLA 1

NYR 1

FINAL OTBoxscoreOCT 8

FLA 6

NYR 4

FINALBoxscoreOCT 25

FLA 1

NYR 1

FINAL OTBoxscoreOCT 29

FLA 3

NYR 7

FINALBoxscoreDEC 22

FLA 4

NYR 3

FINALBoxscoreFEB 9

As of December 22, 1996

All-Time vs FLA

Overall: 8-7-4-0
At NYR: 4-3-3-0

Last 10 vs FLA

Overall: 3-4-3-0
At NYR: 4-3-3-0