Pittsburgh Penguins vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Saturday, December 23, 1995 · Montreal Forum
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 1–0 on Saturday, December 23, 1995 at Montreal Forum. The Penguins outshot the Canadiens 29–23.
Goals came from Martin Rucinsky.
Jocelyn Thibault made 29 saves on 29 shots for the win; Ken Wregget stopped 22 of 23.
Scoring
2nd period
Martin Rucinsky (7)Vincent Damphousse (19), Patrice Brisebois (16)0–110:44 MTL
Team stats
PITMTL
2923
0%0%
0/30/3
88
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 10:03 into the first period
Markus Naslund · holding the stick2 min - 14:38 into the first period
Pierre Turgeon · slashing2 min - 14:38 into the first periodDave Roche · roughing2 min
- 14:54 into the first periodMarc Bureau · interference obstruction2 min
- 2:21 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 15:01 into the second periodChris Joseph · tripping obstruction2 min
- 2:57 into the third periodMarko Kiprusoff · holding2 min
- 11:14 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Chris WellsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Tomas SandstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27Glen MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 29Markus NaslundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 44Ed PattersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 51Dave RocheL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 66Mario LemieuxC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 76Richard ParkR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 93Petr NedvedC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Dmitri MironovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 18Francois LerouxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Norm MacIverD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Chris JosephD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Ian MoranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 56Sergei ZubovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Ken WreggetG | L | 23 | 1 | .957 |
| 40Patrick LalimeG | 0 | 0 | – |
Montréal Canadiens
| 25Vincent DamphousseC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 6Oleg PetrovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8Mark RecchiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Valeri BureR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Craig ConroyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Marc BureauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 30Turner StevensonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 49Brian SavageL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 57Chris MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 77Pierre TurgeonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Stephane QuintalD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Marko KiprusoffD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Lyle OdeleinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 34Peter PopovicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 38Vladimir MalakhovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Pat JablonskiG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Jocelyn ThibaultG | W | 29 | 0 | 1.000 |