Buffalo Sabres vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Tuesday, December 26, 1995 · Civic Arena
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Buffalo Sabres 6–3 on Tuesday, December 26, 1995 at Civic Arena. The Penguins outshot the Sabres 41–35.
Goals came from Petr Nedved, Derek Plante, Dave Roche, Jaromir Jagr, Ron Francis, Mario Lemieux, Chris Joseph, Matthew Barnaby and Dane Jackson.
Ken Wregget made 32 saves on 35 shots for the win; Martin Biron stopped 20 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Petr Nedved (13)Jaromir Jagr (40), Sergei Zubov (17)0–102:09 PIT
Derek Plante (8)Randy Burridge (13), Matthew Barnaby (8)1–104:11 BUF
Dave Roche (2)Bryan Smolinski (16)1–205:28 PIT
Jaromir Jagr (30)Mario Lemieux (48), Bryan Smolinski (17)1–310:26 PIT · 
Ron Francis (18)Jaromir Jagr (41), Sergei Zubov (18)1–419:52 PIT ·
2nd period
Mario Lemieux (30)Ron Francis (43), Sergei Zubov (19)1–511:03 PIT
Chris Joseph (4)Ron Francis (44), Jaromir Jagr (42)1–612:32 PIT
3rd period
Matthew Barnaby (5)Randy Burridge (14), Mark Astley (9)2–609:28 BUF
Dane Jackson (4)Brian Holzinger (7), Rob Ray (3)3–610:03 BUF
Team stats
BUFPIT
3541
0%0%
0/62/5
2224
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 8:00 into the first period
Craig Muni · holding2 min - 9:51 into the first periodDoug Houda · cross checking2 min
- 18:41 into the first periodRob Ray · interference obstruction2 min
- 19:54 into the first periodMatthew Barnaby · fighting5 min
- 19:54 into the first period
Dave Roche · fighting5 min - 20:00 into the first periodBrad May · fighting5 min
- 20:00 into the first periodFrancois Leroux · fighting5 min
- 4:19 into the second periodNorm MacIver · holding stick obstruction2 min
- 9:01 into the second periodDoug Houda · tripping obstruction2 min
- 14:24 into the second periodFrancois Leroux · roughing2 min
- 14:24 into the second periodFrancois Leroux · interference obstruction2 min
- 0:59 into the third periodDave Roche · interference obstruction2 min
- 6:21 into the third periodBrad May · roughing2 min
- 6:21 into the third periodFrancois Leroux · roughing2 min
- 11:43 into the third periodMike Wilson · holding2 min
- 11:51 into the third periodTomas Sandstrom · hooking obstruction2 min
- 17:31 into the third periodBryan Smolinski · hooking obstruction2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 12Randy BurridgeL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 36Matthew BarnabyR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Brian HolzingerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 24Dane JacksonR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 26Derek PlanteC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 32Rob RayR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 21Mark AstleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 10Brad MayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 6 | – |
| 13Yuri KhmylevL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 17Brent HughesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 27Michael PecaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 41Dave HannanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 3Garry GalleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 5Craig MuniD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Doug HoudaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 34Mike WilsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0Martin BironG | L | 24 | 4 | .833 |
| 31Steve ShieldsG | 17 | 2 | .882 |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 1 | 3 | 4 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 56Sergei ZubovD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 20Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 66Mario LemieuxC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 | – |
| 51Dave RocheL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 93Petr NedvedC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 23Chris JosephD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 16Joe DziedzicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Tomas SandstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 27Glen MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 29Markus NaslundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 44Ed PattersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 76Richard ParkR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 15Dmitri MironovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Francois LerouxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 22Norm MacIverD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Ian MoranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Ken WreggetG | W | 35 | 3 | .914 |
| 40Patrick LalimeG | 0 | 0 | – |