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WSH

TD GARDEN

2FINAL3

March 12, 1997

NYR

Scoring Summary

1st Period

Dale Hunter (12)

Steve Konowalchuk (21), Chris Simon (11)

1-0 WSH

Score

11:56

Time

Wayne Gretzky (19)

Brian Leetch (49), Mark Messier (39)

1-1 Tied

Score

15:59

Time

2nd Period

Rick Tocchet (18)

Phil Housley (26), Adam Oates (54)

2-1 WSH

Score

06:32

Time

Adam Graves (25)

Brian Leetch (50), Mark Messier (40)

2-2 Tied

Score

08:19

Time

3rd Period

Mark Messier (34) (pp)

Alexander Karpovtsev (26), Esa Tikkanen (16)

3-2 NYR

Score

11:13

Time

Penalties

1st Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	01:51	Andrei Nikolishin – tripping (2 min)
	05:47	Brendan Witt – slashing (2 min)
	09:29	Ryan Vandenbussche – roughing (2 min)
	09:29	Chris Simon – roughing (2 min)
	15:00	Eric Cairns – fighting (5 min)
	15:00	Craig Berube – fighting (5 min)
	17:53	Adam Graves – kneeing (2 min)

2nd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	08:35	Ryan Vandenbussche – fighting (5 min)
	08:35	Brendan Witt – fighting (5 min)
	08:41	Darren Langdon – fighting (5 min)
	08:41	Chris Simon – fighting (5 min)
	09:23	Adam Graves – roughing (2 min)
	09:23	Mark Tinordi – roughing (2 min)
	09:23	Mark Tinordi – roughing (2 min)
	11:50	Patrick Flatley – tripping (2 min)

3rd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	00:26	Bruce Driver – roughing (2 min)
	00:26	Dale Hunter – roughing (2 min)
	01:03	Adam Graves – holding (2 min)
	09:38	Andrei Nikolishin – hooking (2 min)
	13:28	Esa Tikkanen – slashing (2 min)
	13:28	Chris Simon – slashing (2 min)
	16:21	Mike Richter – roughing (2 min)
	16:21	Dale Hunter – interference-goalkeeper (2 min)
	17:50	Bruce Driver – roughing (2 min)
	17:50	Andrei Nikolishin – high-sticking (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	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
5	Ulf Samuelsson	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	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
9	Adam Graves	L	1	0	1	1	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
10	Esa Tikkanen	L	0	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
11	Mark Messier	C	1	2	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
15	Darren Langdon	L	0	0	0	0	5	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	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
20	Luc Robitaille	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
21	Russ Courtnall	R	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
23	Jeff Beukeboom	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
24	Niklas Sundstrom	R	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
25	Alexander Karpovtsev	D	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
29	Eric Cairns	D	0	0	0	-1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
32	Mike Eastwood	C	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
33	Bruce Driver	D	0	0	0	-1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
37	Ryan Vandenbussche	R	0	0	0	-1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
99	Wayne Gretzky	C	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	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				25	27	2	2	0	0	.926	2.00	60:00

WSH – 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	Ken Klee	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
3	Sylvain Cote	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	Calle Johansson	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
12	Peter Bondra	R	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
13	Andrei Nikolishin	C	0	0	0	-2	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
17	Chris Simon	L	0	1	1	1	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
19	Brendan Witt	D	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
20	Michal Pivonka	C	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
22	Steve Konowalchuk	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
24	Mark Tinordi	D	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
27	Craig Berube	L	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
32	Dale Hunter	C	1	0	1	1	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
36	Mike Eagles	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
44	Richard Zednik	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
77	Adam Oates	C	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
90	Joe Juneau	C	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
92	Rick Tocchet	R	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0
96	Phil Housley	D	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	0	00:00	0	0	0	0

WSH – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
30	Bill Ranford	★					11	12	1	1	0	0	.917	2.40	24:58
37	Olie Kolzig		L				27	29	2	1	1	0	.931	3.50	34:18

NYR

WSH

Game Stats

3	Goals	2
41	Shots	27
25.0% (1/4)	Power Play	0.0% (0/9)
31	Penalty Minutes	35
0	Hits	0
0	Blocks	0
0	Giveaways	0
0	Takeaways	0

Goals by Period

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

Season Series: 2-3-0

WSH 3

NYR 2

FINALBoxscoreOCT 23

WSH 3

NYR 2

FINALBoxscoreNOV 9

WSH 2

NYR 0

FINALBoxscoreJAN 9

WSH 3

NYR 5

FINALBoxscoreJAN 22

WSH 2

NYR 3

FINALBoxscoreMAR 12

As of March 12, 1997

All-Time vs WSH

Overall: 60-58-15-3
At NYR: 34-25-6-2

Last 10 vs WSH

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