The 46th Annual NHL All-Star Game took place at the FleetCenter in Boston, Massachusetts on January 20, 1996.

[edit] Super Skills Competition

The Western Conference would win their third-straight Skills Competition on a second round tie-breaking penalty shot goal. In the individual events Mike Gartner broke his previous Fastest Skater record by finishing the event at 13.386 seconds, which still stands today as the record. Mark Messier would win the Accuracy Shooting event by becoming the second player to hit four targets on four shots.

[edit] Individual Event winners

• Puck Control Relay - Pierre Turgeon (Montreal Canadiens)
• Fastest Skater - Mike Gartner (Toronto Maple Leafs) - 13.386 seconds
• Accuracy Shooting - Mark Messier (New York Rangers) - 4 hits, 4 shots
• Hardest Shot - Dave Manson (Winnipeg Jets) - 98.0 mph⁺
• Goaltenders Competition - Dominik Hasek (Buffalo Sabres) - 4 GA, 16 shots

[edit] The Game

Boston Bruins' defensemen Ray Bourque scored with just 37.3 seconds remaining in regulation to lift the Eastern Conference to a 5–4 victory in front of the home crowd in Boston. For his heroics, the 17-year veteran was named All-Star M.V.P.^{[citation needed]}

The East built a 2–0 lead after the first period as New Jersey Devils' goaltender Martin Brodeur was able to stop all 12 shots. Philadelphia Flyers' Eric Lindros and New York Rangers' Pat Verbeek opened the scoring in the first period. In the second period, Pittsburgh Penguins' Jaromir Jagr would score to increase the East lead to 3–0. However, the Western Conference responded by scoring three of the next four goals in the second period to pull within one, going into the third. Winnipeg Jets' Teemu Selanne would tie the game at 4–4 with 3:29 remaining, before Bourque scored the winning goal.

[edit] Additional information

This was also the first game where the FoxTrax was used in the All-Star Game.^{[citation needed]} Jim Kelley revealed on Prime Time Sports that Dominik Hasek was chosen as the game MVP but he overruled the vote because Bourque scored the game winner and the game was in Boston, where Bourque played most of his career.

[edit] Boxscore

	Western Conference	Eastern Conference
Final score	4	5
Head coach	Scotty Bowman (Detroit Red Wings)	Doug MacLean (Florida Panthers)
Honorary captain	Glenn Hall	Bobby Orr
Lineup	Starting lineup: 7 - D Chris Chelios (Chicago Blackhawks, Alternate) 9 - RW Paul Kariya (Mighty Ducks of Anaheim)1 16 - RW Brett Hull (St. Louis Blues) 30 - G Ed Belfour (Chicago Blackhawks) 77 - D Paul Coffey (Detroit Red Wings, Alternate) 99 - C Wayne Gretzky (Los Angeles Kings, Captain) Commissioner's selection: 18 - C Denis Savard (Chicago Blackhawks) Reserves: 2 - D Al MacInnis (St. Louis Blues 4 - D Kevin Hatcher (Dallas Stars) 5 - D Nicklas Lidstrom (Detroit Red Wings) 8 - RW Teemu Selanne (Winnipeg Jets) 11 - RW Owen Nolan (San Jose Sharks) 13 - C Mats Sundin (Toronto Maple Leafs) 14 - RW Theoren Fleury (Calgary Flames) 19 - C Joe Sakic (Colorado Avalanche) 21 - C Peter Forsberg (Colorado Avalanche) 22 - RW Mike Gartner (Toronto Maple Leafs) 29 - G Felix Potvin (Toronto Maple Leafs) 31 - G Chris Osgood (Detroit Red Wings) 39 - C Doug Weight (Edmonton Oilers) 55 - D Larry Murphy (Toronto Maple Leafs) 89 - RW Alexander Mogilny (Vancouver Canucks) 91 - C Sergei Fedorov (Detroit Red Wings)	Starting lineup: 4 - D Scott Stevens (New Jersey Devils) 30 - G Martin Brodeur (New Jersey Devils) 66 - C Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins, Alternate) 68 - RW Jaromir Jagr (Pittsburgh Penguins) 77 - D Ray Bourque (Boston Bruins, Captain) 94 - C Brendan Shanahan (Hartford Whalers) Commissioner's selection: 14 - C Craig MacTavish (Philadelphia Flyers) Reserves: 2 - D Brian Leetch (New York Rangers) 7 - C Pierre Turgeon (Montreal Canadiens) 8 - RW Cam Neely (Boston Bruins) 10 - C Ron Francis (Pittsburgh Penguins) 11 - C Mark Messier (New York Rangers, Alternate) 12 - RW Peter Bondra (Washington Capitals) 15 - RW Daniel Alfredsson (Ottawa Senators) 16 - RW Pat Verbeek (New York Rangers) 20 - LW John LeClair (Philadelphia Flyers) 27 - RW Scott Mellanby (Florida Panthers) 34 - G John Vanbiesbrouck (Florida Panthers) 37 - D Eric Desjardins (Philadelphia Flyers) 39 - G Dominik Hasek (Buffalo Sabres) 44 - D Roman Hamrlik (Tampa Bay Lightning) 72 - D Mathieu Schneider (New York Islanders) 88 - C Eric Lindros (Philadelphia Flyers)
Scoring summary	Hull (Kariya, Coffey), 5:33 2nd Coffey (Fedorov, Mogilny), 11:42 2nd Kariya (Sundin), 17:47 2nd Selanne (unassisted), 16:31 3rd	Lindros (Leetch, LeClair), 11:05 1st Verbeek (Lemieux, Schneider), 13:49 1st Jagr (Lemieux, Francis), 2:07 2nd Shanahan (Turgeon, Neely), 8:51 2nd Bourque (Verbeek, Messier), 19:22 3rd (GWG)
Penalties	Western, too many men 4:35, 1st	Eastern, too many men 15:14 2nd
Shots on goal	12–7–13–32	18–15–8–41
Win/Loss	L - Felix Potvin	W - Dominik Hasek

• Referee: Mark Faucette
• Linesmen: Ron Asselstine, Brad Lazarowich
• Television: Fox

[edit] Notes

Note +: Even though he participated in the Super Skills Competition, Dave Manson was not in the Western Conference All-Star roster.

Note 1: Pavel Bure was voted as a starter, but was not able to play due to injury. Paul Kariya was his replacement in the starting lineup.

[edit] See also

• 1995–96 NHL season

[edit] References

• Podnieks, Andrew (2000). NHL all-star game : 50 years of the great tradition. Toronto: Harper Collins. ISBN 000200058X.