New York Rangers vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Saturday, March 23, 1996 · FleetCenter
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Boston Bruins 5–4 on Saturday, March 23, 1996 at FleetCenter. The Bruins outshot the Rangers 32–19.
Mark Messier scored twice and Steve Heinze scored a hat trick. Adam Graves, Luc Robitaille, Ray Bourque and Alex Kovalev also scored.
Mike Richter made 28 saves on 32 shots for the win; Bill Ranford stopped 14 of 19.
Scoring
1st period
Mark Messier (44)Jeff Beukeboom (10), Brian Leetch (59)1–000:35 NYR
Adam Graves (21)Brian Leetch (60), Mark Messier (51)2–014:52 NYR
2nd period
Luc Robitaille (20)Brian Leetch (61), Mark Messier (52)3–012:59 NYR · 
Steve Heinze (12)Dave Reid (16), Ron Sutter (2)3–117:15 BOS- Steve Heinze (13)Jon Rohloff (9), Todd Elik (29)3–219:37 BOS
3rd period
- Steve Heinze (14)Ray Bourque (50)3–303:07 BOS
Ray Bourque (20)Jozef Stumpel (33), Todd Elik (30)3–408:15 BOS · - Mark Messier (45)Alex Kovalev (31)4–410:06 NYR
Alex Kovalev (19)Adam Graves (32), Bruce Driver (32)5–412:22 NYR
Team stats
NYRBOS
1932
0%0%
1/41/6
1612
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 8:58 into the first period
Jon Rohloff · holding obstruction2 min - 10:51 into the first period
Brian Leetch · holding obstruction2 min - 16:14 into the first periodLuc Robitaille · boarding2 min
- 19:36 into the first periodTodd Elik · holding obstruction2 min
- 1:58 into the second periodJon Rohloff · hooking obstruction2 min
- 6:28 into the second periodBill Berg · cross checking2 min
- 8:41 into the second periodTed Donato · roughing2 min
- 8:41 into the second periodUlf Samuelsson · roughing2 min
- 9:28 into the second periodSergei Nemchinov · hooking obstruction2 min
- 11:59 into the second periodDon Sweeney · hooking obstruction2 min
- 14:07 into the second periodShane Churla · high sticking2 min
- 4:49 into the third periodJon Rohloff · roughing2 min
- 4:49 into the third periodSergio Momesso · roughing2 min
- 7:39 into the third periodUlf Samuelsson · holding obstruction2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 11Mark MessierC | 2 | 2 | 4 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 9Adam GravesL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 20Luc RobitailleL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 23Jeff BeukeboomD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 33Bruce DriverD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 13Sergei NemchinovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Darren LangdonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Jari KurriR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Bill BergL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 22Shane ChurlaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Niklas SundstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 32Sergio MomessoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 37Daniel LacroixC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 25Alexander KarpovtsevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 55Marty McSorleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Glenn HealyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Mike RichterG | W | 32 | 4 | .875 |
Boston Bruins
| 23Steve HeinzeR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 20Todd ElikL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 77Ray BourqueD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 10Ron SutterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Jozef StumpelL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 17Dave ReidL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 38Jon RohloffD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 12Adam OatesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 14Shawn McEachernL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 21Ted DonatoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Marc PotvinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 42Tim SweeneyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 45Sandy MogerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 0 | – |
| 32Don SweeneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 34Rick ZomboD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 41Philip Von StefenelliD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 46Kyle McLarenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 48Steve StaiosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Bill RanfordG | L | 19 | 5 | .737 |