Florida Panthers vs Boston Bruins
Playoffs · Wednesday, April 24, 1996 · FleetCenter
Game summary
The Florida Panthers beat the Boston Bruins 4–2 on Wednesday, April 24, 1996 at FleetCenter. The Bruins outshot the Panthers 42–26.
Jody Hull scored twice. Scott Mellanby, Mike Hough, Shawn McEachern and Rick Tocchet also scored.
John Vanbiesbrouck made 40 saves on 42 shots for the win; Bill Ranford stopped 22 of 26.
Scoring
1st period
Jody Hull (2)Tom Fitzgerald (1)1–000:30 FLA
Scott Mellanby (1)Robert Svehla (3), Jason Woolley (3)2–010:29 FLA · 
Mike Hough (2)Unassisted3–012:19 FLA
2nd period
- Jody Hull (3)Terry Carkner (1), Tom Fitzgerald (2)4–015:16 FLA
Shawn McEachern (1)Sandy Moger (2)4–118:40 BOS
3rd period
Rick Tocchet (3)John Gruden (1), Ray Bourque (3)4–219:02 BOS ·
Team stats
FLABOS
2642
0%0%
1/61/4
1923
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:19 into the first period
Rick Tocchet · high sticking2 min - 9:57 into the first periodDon Sweeney · holding2 min
- 15:49 into the first period
Paul Laus · holding2 min - 18:22 into the first periodDean Chynoweth · boarding2 min
- 3:00 into the second periodRick Tocchet · slashing2 min
- 3:00 into the second periodJason Woolley · slashing2 min
- 6:29 into the second periodKyle McLaren · roughing2 min
- 6:29 into the second periodTom Fitzgerald · roughing2 min
- 6:29 into the second periodPaul Laus · roughing2 min
- 10:19 into the second periodDean Chynoweth · fighting5 min
- 10:19 into the second periodScott Mellanby · fighting5 min
- 11:29 into the second periodKyle McLaren · roughing2 min
- 16:23 into the second periodKyle McLaren · roughing2 min
- 2:40 into the third periodTodd Elik · slashing2 min
- 2:40 into the third periodRob Niedermayer · slashing2 min
- 4:29 into the third periodRhett Warrener · hooking2 min
- 13:26 into the third periodRick Tocchet · slashing2 min
- 17:45 into the third periodEd Jovanovski · slashing2 min
Season series
Florida Panthers
| 12Jody HullR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 21Tom FitzgeraldR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 18Mike HoughL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Scott MellanbyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 2Terry CarknerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 6Jason WoolleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Robert SvehlaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 9Radek DvorakR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 10Dave LowryL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Bill LindsayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 14Stu BarnesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Brian SkrudlandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Ray SheppardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 29Johan GarpenlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 44Rob NiedermayerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Paul LausD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 23Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 55Ed JovanovskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mark FitzpatrickG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 34John VanbiesbrouckG | W | 42 | 2 | .952 |
Boston Bruins
| 14Shawn McEachernL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Rick TocchetR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 45Sandy MogerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 36John GrudenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 77Ray BourqueD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 8 | – |
| 10Ron SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 12Adam OatesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 16Jozef StumpelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Dave ReidL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Todd ElikL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 21Ted DonatoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Steve HeinzeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Cameron StewartL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Marc PotvinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Dean ChynowethD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 32Don SweeneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 38Jon RohloffD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 46Kyle McLarenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Bill RanfordG | L | 26 | 4 | .846 |