Montréal Canadiens vs Los Angeles Kings
Regular season · Saturday, March 2, 1996 · Great Western Forum
Game summary
The Los Angeles Kings beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–4 on Saturday, March 2, 1996 at Great Western Forum. The Kings outshot the Canadiens 39–32.
Vitali Yachmenev scored a hat trick and Mark Recchi scored twice. Rob Cowie, Patrice Brisebois, Eric Lacroix and Turner Stevenson also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Rob Cowie (5)Jari Kurri (20)0–105:20 LAK · 
Patrice Brisebois (7)Mark Recchi (43)1–113:19 MTL
2nd period
Eric Lacroix (15)Kevin Todd (23), John Druce (10)1–211:45 LAK
Vitali Yachmenev (17)John Slaney (11), Yanic Perreault (19)1–314:27 LAK · 
Mark Recchi (19)Turner Stevenson (11), Pierre Turgeon (44)2–318:04 MTL- Vitali Yachmenev (18)Yanic Perreault (20), Dmitri Khristich (29)2–419:43 LAK
3rd period
Turner Stevenson (7)Patrice Brisebois (25), Marc Bureau (5)3–408:22 MTL- Mark Recchi (20)Pierre Turgeon (45), Stephane Quintal (11)4–414:37 MTL
- Vitali Yachmenev (19)Dmitri Khristich (30), Yanic Perreault (21)4–516:05 LAK
Team stats
MTLLAK
3239
0%0%
0/71/6
2314
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:13 into the first period
Peter Popovic · high sticking5 min - 1:13 into the first periodPeter Popovic · game misconduct10 min
- 8:46 into the first period
Doug Zmolek · hooking2 min - 17:33 into the first periodSteven Finn · interference obstruction2 min
- 1:39 into the second periodCraig Johnson · interference obstruction2 min
- 5:58 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 8:39 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 13:40 into the second periodDmitri Khristich · hooking2 min
- 15:53 into the second periodTurner Stevenson · hooking2 min
- 19:43 into the second periodBench · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 1:04 into the third periodRob Cowie · hooking2 min
- 4:10 into the third periodJohn Slaney · hooking obstruction2 min
- 17:07 into the third periodPierre Turgeon · tripping2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.