Tampa Bay Lightning vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Saturday, October 12, 1996 · Maple Leaf Gardens
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 7–4 on Saturday, October 12, 1996 at Maple Leaf Gardens. The Lightning outshot the Maple Leafs 38–33.
Chris Gratton scored a hat trick. Shawn Burr, Alexander Selivanov, Kirk Muller, Brian Bradley, Sergei Berezin, Dave Ellett, John Cullen and Mats Sundin also scored.
Corey Schwab made 29 saves on 33 shots for the win; Don Beaupre stopped 22 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Shawn Burr (2)Roman Hamrlik (1), Brian Bellows (2)1–003:22 TBL
Alexander Selivanov (1)Brian Bradley (2)2–006:29 TBL
Chris Gratton (1)Unassisted3–013:11 TBL
Kirk Muller (2)Unassisted3–113:45 TOR- Chris Gratton (2)Jason Wiemer (1), Dino Ciccarelli (2)4–117:04 TBL
2nd period
Brian Bradley (2)Rob Zamuner (2)5–111:45 TBL · 
Sergei Berezin (1)Doug Gilmour (2)5–219:09 TOR
3rd period
Dave Ellett (2)Dmitry Yushkevich (2), Mike Craig (1)5–306:54 TOR
John Cullen (2)David Shaw (1), Rob Zamuner (3)6–313:20 TBL
Mats Sundin (2)Doug Gilmour (3), Sergei Berezin (1)6–416:14 TOR- Chris Gratton (3)Dino Ciccarelli (3), Rudy Poeschek (2)7–419:59 TBL ·
Team stats
TBLTOR
3833
0%0%
0/40/3
1214
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:56 into the first period
Rob Zamuner · hooking2 min - 17:50 into the first periodRudy Poeschek · roughing2 min
- 17:50 into the first periodRudy Poeschek · roughing2 min
- 17:50 into the first period
Wendel Clark · roughing2 min - 17:50 into the first periodWendel Clark · roughing2 min
- 18:40 into the first periodMats Sundin · roughing2 min
- 9:14 into the second periodDoug Gilmour · hooking2 min
- 9:52 into the second periodBill Houlder · holding2 min
- 16:11 into the second periodMike Craig · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 0:53 into the third periodCory Cross · roughing2 min
- 0:53 into the third periodDave Ellett · roughing2 min
- 0:53 into the third periodKirk Muller · slashing2 min
- 3:41 into the third periodAaron Gavey · interference goalkeeper2 min
Season series
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 77Chris GrattonC | 3 | 0 | 3 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 7Rob ZamunerL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 19Brian BradleyC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 22Dino CiccarelliR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 11Shawn BurrL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 12John CullenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 23Brian BellowsL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 24Jason WiemerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 29Alexander SelivanovR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Rudy PoeschekD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 27David ShawD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 44Roman HamrlikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 28Patrick PoulinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 34Mikael AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 92Aaron GaveyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 2Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 4Cory CrossD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 55Drew BannisterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Corey SchwabG | W | 33 | 4 | .879 |
| 35Derek WilkinsonG | 0 | 0 | – |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 93Doug GilmourC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 94Sergei BerezinL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 9Mike CraigR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 13Mats SundinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 21Kirk MullerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Dave EllettD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 36Dmitry YushkevichD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 8Todd WarrinerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 12Brandon ConveryC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 16Jamie BakerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Wendel ClarkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 19Freddy ModinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 20Ralph IntranuovoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 28Tie DomiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 23Jeff WareD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 34Jamie MacounD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 55Larry MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 72Mathieu SchneiderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Felix PotvinG | 13 | 4 | .692 | |
| 33Don BeaupreG | L | 24 | 2 | .917 |