San Jose Sharks vs Phoenix Coyotes
Regular season · Thursday, October 10, 1996 · America West Arena
Game summary
The Phoenix Coyotes beat the San Jose Sharks 4–1 on Thursday, October 10, 1996 at America West Arena. The Coyotes outshot the Sharks 29–25.
Goals came from Kris King, Mike Gartner, Shane Doan, Bernie Nicholls and Craig Janney.
Nikolai Khabibulin made 24 saves on 25 shots for the win; Chris Terreri stopped 25 of 29.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 SJS | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25 |
 PHX | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 29 |
Scoring
1st period
Kris King (1)Brad McCrimmon (1), Darrin Shannon (1)0–119:34 PHX
2nd period
Mike Gartner (4)Oleg Tverdovsky (1), Teppo Numminen (2)0–207:41 PHX · 
Shane Doan (1)Bob Corkum (1), Jim McKenzie (1)0–318:12 PHX
Bernie Nicholls (3)Unassisted1–319:29 SJS
3rd period
Craig Janney (1)Jeff Finley (1), Keith Tkachuk (4)1–403:44 PHX
Team stats
SJSPHX
2529
0%0%
0/61/8
3430
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:49 into the first periodMike Gartner · high sticking2 min
- 4:49 into the first periodDoug Bodger · high sticking2 min
- 8:13 into the first periodMike Gartner · roughing2 min
- 11:57 into the first periodAl Iafrate · holding2 min
- 13:49 into the first periodDave Manson · tripping2 min
- 16:20 into the first periodChris Tancill · interference obstruction2 min
- 1:55 into the second periodDoug Bodger · tripping2 min
- 6:00 into the second periodDoug Bodger · kneeing2 min
- 7:11 into the second periodOwen Nolan · elbowing2 min
- 10:39 into the second periodDave Manson · roughing2 min
- 10:39 into the second periodDave Manson · roughing2 min
- 10:39 into the second periodAndrei Nazarov · slashing2 min
- 14:41 into the second periodKeith Tkachuk · high sticking2 min
- 18:22 into the second periodJim McKenzie · fighting5 min
- 18:22 into the second periodAndrei Nazarov · fighting5 min
- 4:44 into the third periodDallas Drake · slashing2 min
- 6:45 into the third periodAl Iafrate · slashing2 min
- 11:59 into the third periodAl Iafrate · elbowing2 min
- 12:51 into the third periodDallas Drake · roughing2 min
- 12:51 into the third periodOwen Nolan · roughing2 min
- 12:51 into the third periodOwen Nolan · roughing2 min
- 13:34 into the third periodTeppo Numminen · interference2 min
- 15:55 into the third periodKris King · high sticking2 min
- 15:55 into the third periodKris King · fighting5 min
- 15:55 into the third periodTim Hunter · high sticking2 min
- 15:55 into the third periodTim Hunter · fighting5 min
Season series
San Jose Sharks
| 9Bernie NichollsC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 7Ville PeltonenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Owen NolanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 14Ray WhitneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 18Chris TancillR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Tim HunterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Tony GranatoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 22Ulf DahlenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 39Jeff FriesenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 42Shean DonovanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 62Andrei NazarovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 3Doug BodgerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 10Marcus RagnarssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Todd GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 38Michal SykoraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 40Mike RathjeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 43Al IafrateD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Chris TerreriG | L | 29 | 4 | .862 |
| 32Kelly HrudeyG | 0 | 0 | – |
Phoenix Coyotes
| 7Keith TkachukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Craig JanneyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 17Kris KingL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 19Shane DoanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 21Bob CorkumC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 22Mike GartnerR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 33Jim McKenzieL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 34Darrin ShannonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 10Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 20Oleg TverdovskyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Jeff FinleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 11Dallas DrakeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 14Mike StapletonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 32Mike EastwoodC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 77Cliff RonningC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Dave MansonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 44Norm MacIverD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | W | 25 | 1 | .960 |
| 43Darcy WakalukG | 0 | 0 | – |