Vancouver Canucks vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Monday, January 8, 1996 · Civic Arena
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Vancouver Canucks 8–5 on Monday, January 8, 1996 at Civic Arena. The Canucks outshot the Penguins 42–32.
Markus Naslund scored twice and Bryan Smolinski scored twice. Russ Courtnall, Sergei Zubov, Trevor Linden, Petr Nedved, Tomas Sandstrom, Bret Hedican, Cliff Ronning, Alexander Mogilny and Mario Lemieux also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Markus Naslund (14)Neil Wilkinson (6), Tomas Sandstrom (25)0–103:45 PIT
Russ Courtnall (7)Jyrki Lumme (15)1–104:24 VAN
Sergei Zubov (4)Chris Joseph (8), Petr Nedved (25)1–208:05 PIT · 
Trevor Linden (20)Alexander Mogilny (22), Esa Tikkanen (9)2–209:22 VAN · 
Petr Nedved (17)Richard Park (2), Jaromir Jagr (48)2–310:52 PIT
2nd period
Bryan Smolinski (14)Mario Lemieux (56), Dmitri Mironov (17)2–401:26 PIT
Tomas Sandstrom (28)Sergei Zubov (26), Dmitri Mironov (18)2–504:27 PIT
Bret Hedican (2)Scott Walker (3), Roman Oksiuta (18)3–506:20 VAN
Cliff Ronning (9)Roman Oksiuta (19), Adrian Aucoin (7)4–519:36 VAN
3rd period
Alexander Mogilny (34)Unassisted5–513:59 VAN · - Markus Naslund (15)Chris Joseph (9), Mario Lemieux (57)5–614:11 PIT ·
- Bryan Smolinski (15)Rusty Fitzgerald (1), Neil Wilkinson (7)5–717:37 PIT
Mario Lemieux (36)Jaromir Jagr (49)5–819:53 PIT ·
Team stats
VANPIT
4232
0%0%
1/51/7
1612
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 8:01 into the first period
Tomas Sandstrom · high sticking double minor4 min - 8:01 into the first period
Dana Murzyn · hooking2 min - 11:23 into the first periodAlexander Mogilny · slashing2 min
- 14:24 into the first periodNeil Wilkinson · charging2 min
- 19:01 into the first periodDana Murzyn · high sticking2 min
- 7:16 into the second periodDana Murzyn · cross checking2 min
- 7:16 into the second periodDana Murzyn · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 17:35 into the second periodPetr Nedved · boarding2 min
- 1:29 into the third periodTomas Sandstrom · tripping2 min
- 4:16 into the third periodJeffrey Christian · interference2 min
- 5:14 into the third periodTrevor Linden · hooking2 min
- 7:28 into the third periodDana Murzyn · kneeing2 min
- 12:54 into the third periodCliff Ronning · slashing2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.