Montréal Canadiens vs New York Rangers
Playoffs · Thursday, April 18, 1996 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the New York Rangers 5–3 on Thursday, April 18, 1996 at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers outshot the Canadiens 38–29.
Vincent Damphousse scored twice and Sergio Momesso scored twice. Mark Recchi, Lyle Odelein, Ulf Samuelsson and Marc Bureau also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Vincent Damphousse (3)Unassisted1–007:14 MTL · 
Mark Recchi (1)Vincent Damphousse (1), David Wilkie (1)2–018:29 MTL ·
2nd period
Lyle Odelein (1)Saku Koivu (1)3–005:43 MTL · 
Sergio Momesso (1)Alex Kovalev (1), Jeff Beukeboom (1)3–116:01 NYR
3rd period
- Sergio Momesso (2)Ulf Samuelsson (1), Sergei Nemchinov (1)3–207:12 NYR
Ulf Samuelsson (1)Adam Graves (1), Alexander Karpovtsev (1)3–312:17 NYR- Vincent Damphousse (4)Mark Recchi (1), Peter Popovic (1)4–316:34 MTL
Marc Bureau (1)Vincent Damphousse (2)5–319:54 MTL ·
Team stats
MTLNYR
2938
0%0%
1/40/7
1614
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:45 into the first period
David Wilkie · high sticking2 min - 6:22 into the first periodSaku Koivu · interference2 min
- 9:11 into the first period
Sergio Momesso · slashing2 min - 12:20 into the first periodChris Murray · interference2 min
- 12:33 into the first periodBruce Driver · hooking2 min
- 13:50 into the first periodValeri Bure · holding2 min
- 16:32 into the first periodSergio Momesso · roughing2 min
- 17:12 into the first periodValeri Bure · roughing2 min
- 17:12 into the first periodUlf Samuelsson · roughing2 min
- 17:49 into the first periodBrian Leetch · slashing2 min
- 3:45 into the second periodPeter Popovic · interference2 min
- 7:15 into the second periodChris Murray · slashing2 min
- 7:27 into the second periodMark Messier · slashing2 min
- 8:57 into the second periodLyle Odelein · holding the stick2 min
- 13:08 into the second periodKevin Lowe · interference2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.