Pittsburgh Penguins vs Florida Panthers
Playoffs · Thursday, May 30, 1996 · Miami Arena
Game summary
The Florida Panthers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4–3 on Thursday, May 30, 1996 at Miami Arena. The Panthers outshot the Penguins 40–23.
Goals came from Scott Mellanby, Kevin Miller, Joe Dziedzic, Bill Lindsay, Martin Straka, Tomas Sandstrom and Rob Niedermayer.
John Vanbiesbrouck made 20 saves on 23 shots for the win; Tom Barrasso stopped 36 of 40.
Scoring
1st period
Scott Mellanby (3)Unassisted0–107:45 FLA
2nd period
Kevin Miller (3)Dave Roche (7), Bryan Smolinski (4)1–101:55 PIT
Joe Dziedzic (1)J.J. Daigneault (9), Sergei Zubov (14)2–110:16 PIT
Bill Lindsay (5)Tom Fitzgerald (3), Robert Svehla (5)2–214:56 FLA
3rd period
Martin Straka (2)Bill Lindsay (3), Gord Murphy (3)2–309:35 FLA
Tomas Sandstrom (4)Mario Lemieux (15), Glen Murray (6)3–312:17 PIT
Rob Niedermayer (4)Terry Carkner (4)3–413:58 FLA
Team stats
PITFLA
2340
0%0%
0/60/6
1414
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:32 into the first period
Scott Mellanby · slashing2 min - 9:03 into the first period
Petr Nedved · interference2 min - 10:16 into the first periodRob Niedermayer · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 14:20 into the first periodDave Roche · charging2 min
- 5:27 into the second periodTom Fitzgerald · holding2 min
- 8:01 into the second periodJoe Dziedzic · interference2 min
- 12:06 into the second periodPetr Nedved · hooking2 min
- 12:27 into the second periodJason Woolley · interference2 min
- 15:06 into the second periodBill Lindsay · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 15:06 into the second periodChris Tamer · roughing2 min
- 16:37 into the second periodBrian Skrudland · roughing2 min
- 17:40 into the second periodCorey Foster · holding the stick2 min
- 0:27 into the third periodJohn Vanbiesbrouck · delaying game2 min
- 5:27 into the third periodDmitri Mironov · hooking2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 8Kevin MillerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Joe DziedzicL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 17Tomas SandstromR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 20Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27Glen MurrayR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 51Dave RocheL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 66Mario LemieuxC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 36J.J. DaigneaultD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 56Sergei ZubovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 11Alek StojanovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Brad LauerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 93Petr NedvedC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 2Chris TamerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Corey FosterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Dmitri MironovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 18Francois LerouxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Chris JosephD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Ken WreggetG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Tom BarrassoG | L | 40 | 4 | .900 |
Florida Panthers
| 11Bill LindsayL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Tom FitzgeraldR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Scott MellanbyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 28Martin StrakaC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 44Rob NiedermayerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 2Terry CarknerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 5Gord MurphyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 7 | – |
| 24Robert SvehlaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 10Dave LowryL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 14Stu BarnesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Mike HoughL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 20Brian SkrudlandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Ray SheppardR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 29Johan GarpenlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Paul LausD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 6Jason WoolleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 55Ed JovanovskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mark FitzpatrickG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 34John VanbiesbrouckG | W | 23 | 3 | .870 |