Quebec Nordiques vs Philadelphia Flyers
Regular season · Thursday, January 17, 1991 · Spectrum
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Quebec Nordiques 5–1 on Thursday, January 17, 1991 at Spectrum. The Flyers outshot the Nordiques 29–26.
Goals came from Murray Craven, Joe Sakic, Scott Mellanby, Mike Ricci, Ron Sutter and Rick Tocchet.
Ron Hextall made 25 saves on 26 shots for the win; Ron Tugnutt stopped 24 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Murray Craven (15)Unassisted0–105:25 PHI
Joe Sakic (26)Everett Sanipass (5), Craig Wolanin (10)1–115:28 QUE
Scott Mellanby (12)Kerry Huffman (2), Terry Carkner (19)1–217:02 PHI
2nd period
Mike Ricci (14)Pelle Eklund (34), Rick Tocchet (24)1–310:25 PHI · 
Ron Sutter (9)Derrick Smith (5), Normand Lacombe (9)1–413:06 PHI
3rd period
Rick Tocchet (31)Pelle Eklund (35)1–505:31 PHI
Team stats
QUEPHI
2629
0%0%
0/31/4
1715
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:20 into the first period
Steven Finn · tripping2 min - 10:58 into the first period
Craig Berube · fighting5 min - 10:58 into the first periodSteven Finn · fighting5 min
- 15:38 into the first periodDerrick Smith · roughing2 min
- 16:43 into the first periodBryan Fogarty · holding2 min
- 19:28 into the first periodCraig Berube · roughing2 min
- 19:28 into the first periodDarin Kimble · roughing2 min
- 1:31 into the second periodMurray Craven · high sticking2 min
- 7:17 into the second periodRon Sutter · slashing2 min
- 7:17 into the second periodCraig Wolanin · interference2 min
- 8:52 into the second periodJoe Sakic · tripping2 min
- 9:43 into the third periodGord Murphy · hooking2 min
- 14:14 into the third periodRandy Velischek · holding2 min
Season series
Quebec Nordiques
| 19Joe SakicC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Everett SanipassL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Craig WolaninD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 11Owen NolanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 13Mats SundinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 14Tony McKegneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 2 | – |
| 15Darin KimbleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Claude LoiselleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Scott PearsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Paul GillisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 32Jeff JacksonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 40Tony HrkacC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 47Claude LapointeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Alexei GusarovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Curtis LeschyshynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 1 | – |
| 27Randy VelischekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 29Steven FinnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 0 | – |
| 43Bryan FogartyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Ron TugnuttG | L | 29 | 5 | .828 |
| 30Scott GordonG | 0 | 0 | – |
Philadelphia Flyers
| 9Pelle EklundC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Rick TocchetR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 14Ron SutterC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 18Mike RicciC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 19Scott MellanbyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 20Normand LacombeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 24Derrick SmithL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 32Murray CravenL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 5Kerry HuffmanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +4 | 1 | – |
| 29Terry CarknerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +4 | 3 | – |
| 10Dale KushnerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Craig BerubeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Keith ActonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Martin HostakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 3Gord MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 8Murray BaronD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 11Jiri LatalD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 39David FenyvesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Ron HextallG | W | 26 | 1 | .962 |
| 33Pete PeetersG | 0 | 0 | – |