St. Louis Blues vs Detroit Red Wings

Regular season · Sunday, March 31, 1996 · Joe Louis Arena

1–8

24–37

Game summary

The Detroit Red Wings beat the St. Louis Blues 8–1 on Sunday, March 31, 1996 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Blues 37–24.

Viacheslav Fetisov scored twice and Sergei Fedorov scored twice. Vyacheslav Kozlov, Doug Brown, Basil Mcrae, Tim Taylor and Darren McCarty also scored.

Mike Vernon made 23 saves on 24 shots for the win; Grant Fuhr stopped 16 of 18.

Goals
STL	0	1	0	1	24
DET	1	3	4	8	37

Scoring

1st period

Vyacheslav Kozlov (34)Viacheslav Fetisov (31)0–101:57 DET

2nd period

Viacheslav Fetisov (6)Martin Lapointe (2), Vyacheslav Kozlov (33)0–200:22 DET
Doug Brown (10)Sergei Fedorov (60), Paul Coffey (53)0–305:49 DET
Basil Mcrae (1)Stephen Leach (14), Peter Zezel (11)1–308:07 STL
Tim Taylor (10)Paul Coffey (54), Steve Yzerman (51)1–419:27 DET

3rd period

Sergei Fedorov (36)Doug Brown (13)1–503:30 DET
Sergei Fedorov (37)Vladimir Konstantinov (19)1–607:21 DET
Viacheslav Fetisov (7)Vladimir Konstantinov (20), Sergei Fedorov (61)1–708:53 DET
Darren McCarty (13)Viacheslav Fetisov (32), Paul Coffey (55)1–817:15 DET ·

Team stats

STLDET

2437

0%0%

0/61/7

3129

Penalties

1:57 into the first periodViacheslav Fetisov · charging2 min
1:57 into the first periodKeith Primeau · fighting5 min
1:57 into the first periodVladimir Konstantinov · roughing2 min
1:57 into the first periodAdam Creighton · fighting5 min
1:57 into the first periodBrian Noonan · roughing2 min
7:20 into the first periodIgor Kravchuk · interference2 min
9:45 into the first periodMartin Lapointe · fighting5 min
9:45 into the first periodStephen Leach · fighting5 min
12:18 into the first periodMarc Bergevin · elbowing2 min
12:18 into the first periodPaul Coffey · high sticking2 min
13:31 into the first periodAdam Creighton · interference2 min
15:38 into the first periodMartin Lapointe · slashing2 min
18:54 into the first periodKeith Primeau · fighting5 min
18:54 into the first periodBasil Mcrae · fighting5 min
1:31 into the second periodCharlie Huddy · interference2 min
20:00 into the second periodCraig MacTavish · holding2 min
7:51 into the third periodAdam Creighton · roughing2 min
8:08 into the third periodDarren McCarty · roughing2 min
8:08 into the third periodDarren McCarty · slashing2 min
12:35 into the third periodAl MacInnis · interference2 min
15:54 into the third periodMurray Baron · roughing2 min

Season series

St. Louis Blues

St. Louis Blues skaters

17Basil McraeL	1	0	1	−2	1	5	–	–
25Peter ZezelC	0	1	1	0	3	0	–	–
27Stephen LeachR	0	1	1	−1	4	5	–	–
12Rob PearsonR	0	0	0	0	1	0	–	–
14Geoff CourtnallL	0	0	0	−3	1	0	–	–
15Mike HudsonC	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–
20Adam CreightonC	0	0	0	−1	2	9	–	–
23Craig MacTavishC	0	0	0	−2	2	2	–	–
28Brian NoonanR	0	0	0	−2	0	2	–	–
32Stephane MatteauL	0	0	0	−1	1	0	–	–
36Glenn AndersonR	0	0	0	−2	3	0	–	–
99Wayne GretzkyC	0	0	0	−3	4	0	–	–
2Al MacInnisD	0	0	0	−1	2	2	–	–
5Igor KravchukD	0	0	0	−2	0	2	–	–
22Charlie HuddyD	0	0	0	−3	0	2	–	–
34Murray BaronD	0	0	0	−1	0	2	–	–
35Christer OlssonD	0	0	0	−1	0	0	–	–
44Chris ProngerD	0	0	0	−4	0	0	–	–

St. Louis Blues goalies
Goalie
30Jon CaseyG		19	13	6	.684	39:38
31Grant FuhrG	L	18	16	2	.889	20:22

Detroit Red Wings

Detroit Red Wings skaters

91Sergei FedorovC	2	2	4	+3	2	0	–	–
2Viacheslav FetisovD	2	2	4	+4	4	2	–	–
77Paul CoffeyD	0	3	3	+2	1	2	–	–
13Vyacheslav KozlovL	1	1	2	+3	4	0	–	–
17Doug BrownR	1	1	2	+2	2	0	–	–
16Vladimir KonstantinovD	0	2	2	+4	3	2	–	–
19Steve YzermanC	0	1	1	+1	3	0	–	–
20Martin LapointeR	0	1	1	+1	4	7	–	–
25Darren McCartyR	1	0	1	+1	3	4	–	–
37Tim TaylorC	1	0	1	+1	1	0	–	–
8Igor LarionovC	0	0	0	+2	2	0	–	–
21Bob ErreyL	0	0	0	0	3	0	–	–
22Dino CiccarelliR	0	0	0	+2	1	0	–	–
26Wes WalzC	0	0	0	0	1	0	–	–
55Keith PrimeauC	0	0	0	+1	1	10	–	–
5Nicklas LidstromD	0	0	0	0	2	0	–	–
15Mike RamseyD	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	–
27Marc BergevinD	0	0	0	+2	0	2	–	–

Detroit Red Wings goalies
Goalie
29Mike VernonG	W	24	23	1	.958	60:00
30Chris OsgoodG		0	0	0	–	–