New York Rangers vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Playoffs · Saturday, May 11, 1996 · Civic Arena
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the New York Rangers 7–3 on Saturday, May 11, 1996 at Civic Arena. The Rangers outshot the Penguins 32–24.
Mario Lemieux scored a hat trick and Jaromir Jagr scored a hat trick. Mark Messier, Sergio Momesso, Niklas Sundstrom and Bryan Smolinski also scored.
Ken Wregget made 29 saves on 32 shots for the win; Mike Richter stopped 17 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Mario Lemieux (8)Tomas Sandstrom (2), Chris Tamer (4)0–111:49 PIT ·
2nd period
Jaromir Jagr (8)Mario Lemieux (10), Sergei Zubov (12)0–202:35 PIT · 
Mark Messier (4)Brian Leetch (5), Jari Kurri (4)1–205:50 NYR · - Mario Lemieux (9)Dave Roche (3), J.J. Daigneault (6)1–309:53 PIT ·
Sergio Momesso (3)Niklas Sundstrom (3), Bruce Driver (7)2–310:39 NYR
Niklas Sundstrom (4)Jari Kurri (5), Brian Leetch (6)3–313:26 NYR · - Jaromir Jagr (9)Petr Nedved (6), Joe Dziedzic (2)3–415:04 PIT
- Jaromir Jagr (10)Dmitri Mironov (1), Petr Nedved (7)3–519:47 PIT
3rd period
Bryan Smolinski (3)Dave Roche (4), Kevin Miller (2)3–607:23 PIT- Mario Lemieux (10)Glen Murray (4), J.J. Daigneault (7)3–715:14 PIT
Team stats
NYRPIT
3224
0%0%
2/72/6
1214
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:59 into the first period
Shane Churla · tripping2 min - 4:19 into the first period
Bryan Smolinski · roughing2 min - 7:32 into the first periodSergio Momesso · slashing2 min
- 10:43 into the first periodJoe Dziedzic · tripping2 min
- 13:43 into the first periodTomas Sandstrom · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 17:57 into the first periodSergio Momesso · slashing2 min
- 1:23 into the second periodUlf Samuelsson · interference obstruction2 min
- 5:36 into the second periodNeil Wilkinson · roughing2 min
- 9:26 into the second periodDoug Lidster · holding the stick2 min
- 11:03 into the second periodPat Verbeek · hooking obstruction2 min
- 11:57 into the second periodMario Lemieux · holding2 min
- 4:59 into the third periodKevin Miller · interference obstruction2 min
- 17:41 into the third periodChris Tamer · cross checking2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 17Jari KurriR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Niklas SundstromR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 11Mark MessierC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 32Sergio MomessoL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 33Bruce DriverD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 9Adam GravesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 12Ken GernanderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Pat VerbeekR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 18Bill BergL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Luc RobitailleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 6 | – |
| 22Shane ChurlaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 4Kevin LoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 6Doug LidsterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 23Jeff BeukeboomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 55Marty McSorleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Glenn HealyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Mike RichterG | L | 24 | 7 | .708 |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 66Mario LemieuxC | 3 | 1 | 4 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 51Dave RocheL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 93Petr NedvedC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 36J.J. DaigneaultD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 8Kevin MillerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Joe DziedzicL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 17Tomas SandstromR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 20Bryan SmolinskiC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Glen MurrayR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Chris TamerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Dmitri MironovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 56Sergei ZubovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Alek StojanovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Neil WilkinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Francois LerouxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Chris JosephD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Ken WreggetG | W | 32 | 3 | .906 |
| 35Tom BarrassoG | 0 | 0 | – |