Pittsburgh Penguins vs Washington Capitals
Playoffs · Sunday, April 28, 1996 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Washington Capitals 3–2 on Sunday, April 28, 1996 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Penguins 37–26.
Goals came from Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr, Ron Francis, Dale Hunter and Sergei Gonchar.
Ken Wregget made 35 saves on 37 shots for the win; Olie Kolzig stopped 21 of 22.
Scoring
1st period
Mario Lemieux (2)Sergei Zubov (6)1–001:57 PIT · 
Jaromir Jagr (3)Mario Lemieux (8), Sergei Zubov (7)2–006:03 PIT · 
Ron Francis (3)Petr Nedved (3), Chris Tamer (1)3–012:24 PIT
2nd period
Dale Hunter (1)Sergei Gonchar (4), Kelly Miller (1)3–101:43 WSH
3rd period
Sergei Gonchar (2)Dale Hunter (5), Steve Konowalchuk (2)3–200:50 WSH
Team stats
PITWSH
2637
0%0%
2/40/4
1313
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:15 into the first period
J.J. Daigneault · fighting5 min - 0:15 into the first period
Keith Jones · interference goalkeeper2 min - 0:15 into the first periodKeith Jones · fighting5 min
- 5:16 into the first periodKelly Miller · interference obstruction2 min
- 8:36 into the first periodJ.J. Daigneault · boarding2 min
- 16:50 into the first periodPetr Nedved · tripping obstruction2 min
- 4:35 into the second periodTodd Krygier · holding2 min
- 13:21 into the second periodPeter Bondra · hooking2 min
- 3:25 into the third periodJaromir Jagr · interference obstruction2 min
- 11:30 into the third periodNeil Wilkinson · roughing2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 66Mario LemieuxC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 56Sergei ZubovD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 93Petr NedvedC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 2Chris TamerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 8Kevin MillerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Alek StojanovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Joe DziedzicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Tomas SandstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 20Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27Glen MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 51Dave RocheL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Neil WilkinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 15Dmitri MironovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Francois LerouxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Chris JosephD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 36J.J. DaigneaultD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Ken WreggetG | W | 37 | 2 | .946 |
| 40Patrick LalimeG | 0 | 0 | – |
Washington Capitals
| 32Dale HunterC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 10Kelly MillerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 22Steve KonowalchukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 9Keith JonesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Stefan UstorfL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Andrew BrunetteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Michal PivonkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Todd KrygierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 27Craig BerubeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 36Mike EaglesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 4Jim JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15Steve PoapstD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Mark TinordiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 28Eric CharronD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Jim CareyG | 4 | 2 | .500 | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | L | 22 | 1 | .955 |