New York Rangers vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Saturday, October 12, 1996 · Centre Molson
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the New York Rangers 5–2 on Saturday, October 12, 1996 at Centre Molson. The Rangers outshot the Canadiens 45–29.
Valeri Bure scored twice. Brian Savage, Benoit Brunet, Vincent Damphousse, Luc Robitaille and Daniel Goneau also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Brian Savage (5)Saku Koivu (7), Pierre Turgeon (2)0–109:38 MTL ·
2nd period
Benoit Brunet (1)Pierre Turgeon (3), David Wilkie (2)0–202:40 MTL
Valeri Bure (1)Martin Rucinsky (4)0–304:08 MTL
Vincent Damphousse (2)Pierre Turgeon (4)0–405:16 MTL · - Valeri Bure (2)Martin Rucinsky (5), Vincent Damphousse (3)0–513:55 MTL
Luc Robitaille (2)Wayne Gretzky (3), Alexander Karpovtsev (2)1–517:14 NYR
3rd period
Daniel Goneau (1)Mark Messier (4), Brian Leetch (2)2–502:47 NYR ·
Team stats
NYRMTL
4529
0%0%
1/42/5
1917
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 8:42 into the first period
Eric Cairns · holding2 min - 17:36 into the first period
Brian Savage · interference obstruction2 min - 5:12 into the second periodLuc Robitaille · hooking2 min
- 6:32 into the second periodEric Cairns · slashing2 min
- 13:55 into the second periodMartin Rucinsky · roughing2 min
- 13:55 into the second periodJeff Beukeboom · roughing2 min
- 13:55 into the second periodJeff Beukeboom · roughing2 min
- 2:24 into the third periodScott Thornton · cross checking2 min
- 8:07 into the third periodDonald Brashear · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 8:07 into the third periodDarren Langdon · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 10:24 into the third periodDonald Brashear · fighting5 min
- 10:24 into the third periodDarren Langdon · fighting5 min
- 11:45 into the third periodVladimir Malakhov · hooking2 min
- 14:25 into the third periodDavid Wilkie · interference2 min
- 17:05 into the third periodUlf Samuelsson · interference obstruction2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.