Quebec Nordiques vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Friday, December 31, 1993 · Civic Arena
Game summary
The Quebec Nordiques beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5–4 on Friday, December 31, 1993 at Civic Arena. The Penguins outshot the Nordiques 42–28.
Goals came from Martin Rucinsky, Kevin Stevens, Martin Straka, Dave Karpa, Mike Stapleton, Valeri Kamensky, Claude Lapointe, Marty McSorley and Mats Sundin.
Stephane Fiset made 38 saves on 42 shots for the win; Ken Wregget stopped 23 of 28.
Scoring
1st period
Martin Rucinsky (7)Craig Wolanin (4), Scott Young (9)1–008:11 QUE · 
Kevin Stevens (22)Martin Straka (19), Grant Jennings (3)1–108:55 PIT
Martin Straka (14)Kevin Stevens (20), Peter Taglianetti (7)1–211:23 PIT
Dave Karpa (4)Martin Rucinsky (15), Claude Lapointe (13)2–211:41 QUE
2nd period
Mike Stapleton (4)Jeff Daniels (5), Doug Brown (18)2–305:04 PIT
Valeri Kamensky (14)Chris Lindberg (7), Steven Finn (7)3–309:10 QUE
Claude Lapointe (5)Martin Rucinsky (16), Dave Karpa (8)4–316:19 QUE
Marty McSorley (2)Doug Brown (19), Joe Mullen (17)4–416:54 PIT
Mats Sundin (20)Valeri Kamensky (19), Chris Lindberg (8)5–418:00 QUE
Team stats
QUEPIT
2842
0%0%
1/40/3
1012
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:18 into the first period
Martin Straka · interference goalkeeper2 min - 13:17 into the first periodMike Stapleton · holding2 min
- 17:19 into the first period
Adam Foote · interference2 min - 0:11 into the second periodGrant Jennings · high sticking2 min
- 18:09 into the second periodPeter Taglianetti · roughing2 min
- 18:09 into the second periodAdam Foote · roughing2 min
- 18:09 into the second periodMartin Rucinsky · slashing2 min
- 10:58 into the third periodGrant Jennings · cross checking2 min
- 11:18 into the third periodUlf Samuelsson · slashing2 min
- 11:18 into the third periodMike Ricci · spearing double minor4 min
Season series
Quebec Nordiques
| 25Martin RucinskyL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 17Chris LindbergL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 31Valeri KamenskyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 47Claude LapointeC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 59Dave KarpaD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 13Mats SundinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 48Scott YoungR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 6Craig WolaninD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 29Steven FinnD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 9Mike RicciC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 19Joe SakicC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Martin GelinasL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 51Andrei KovalenkoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 55Rene CorbetL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Kerry HuffmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 5Alexei GusarovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 45Mike MckeeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 52Adam FooteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Stephane FisetG | W | 42 | 4 | .905 |
| 41Jocelyn ThibaultG | 0 | 0 | – |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 24Doug BrownR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 25Kevin StevensL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 82Martin StrakaC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 7Joe MullenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 20Jeff DanielsL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Mike StapletonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 3Grant JenningsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 32Peter TaglianettiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 33Marty McSorleyD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 19Bryan TrottierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Rick TocchetR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Markus NaslundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 2Jim PaekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 6Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 55Larry MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Roberto RomanoG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Ken WreggetG | L | 28 | 5 | .821 |