Phoenix Coyotes vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Monday, October 28, 1996 · Centre Molson
Game summary
The Phoenix Coyotes beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–4 in overtime on Monday, October 28, 1996 at Centre Molson.
Mark Recchi scored twice and Mike Gartner scored twice. Keith Tkachuk, Benoit Brunet, Stephane Quintal, Kris King and Craig Janney also scored.
Darcy Wakaluk made 36 saves on 40 shots for the win; Pat Jablonski stopped 35 of 40.
| Goals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 PHX | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 40 |
 MTL | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 40 |
Scoring
1st period
Keith Tkachuk (2)Teppo Numminen (4)1–001:17 PHX · 
Benoit Brunet (3)David Wilkie (5), Pierre Turgeon (7)1–108:28 MTL
Mark Recchi (5)Saku Koivu (8), Pierre Turgeon (8)1–219:11 MTL
2nd period
Mike Gartner (9)Jeremy Roenick (4), Keith Tkachuk (7)2–203:56 PHX · 
Stephane Quintal (1)Mark Recchi (6), Pierre Turgeon (9)2–310:51 MTL ·
3rd period
Kris King (2)Shane Doan (1), Chad Kilger (1)3–311:16 PHX
Craig Janney (3)Dallas Drake (3), Keith Tkachuk (8)4–317:49 PHX- Mark Recchi (6)Pierre Turgeon (10), Stephane Richer (3)4–419:36 MTL
Overtime
- Mike Gartner (10)Darrin Shannon (2), Jeremy Roenick (5)5–401:45 PHX
Team stats
PHXMTL
4040
0%0%
2/61/4
1317
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:48 into the first periodFrancois Groleau · interference obstruction2 min
- 2:31 into the first periodDonald Brashear · fighting5 min
- 2:31 into the first periodKris King · fighting5 min
- 4:54 into the first periodKeith Tkachuk · hooking obstruction2 min
- 10:34 into the first periodSaku Koivu · interference obstruction2 min
- 13:55 into the first periodDonald Brashear · roughing2 min
- 1:11 into the second periodDave Manson · slashing2 min
- 2:25 into the second periodMark Recchi · hooking2 min
- 8:59 into the second periodKris King · kneeing2 min
- 11:29 into the second periodBenoit Brunet · holding obstruction2 min
- 13:02 into the second periodDave Manson · roughing2 min
- 19:23 into the second periodPatrice Brisebois · holding2 min
Season series
Phoenix Coyotes
| 7Keith TkachukL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 22Mike GartnerR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 8 | – |
| 97Jeremy RoenickC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Dallas DrakeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 15Craig JanneyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Kris KingL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 18Chad KilgerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 19Shane DoanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 34Darrin ShannonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 21Bob CorkumC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 32Mike EastwoodC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 33Jim McKenzieL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 4Dave MansonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 8Jim JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Oleg TverdovskyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Jeff FinleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 43Darcy WakalukG | W | 40 | 4 | .900 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 77Pierre TurgeonC | 0 | 4 | 4 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 8Mark RecchiR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 17Benoit BrunetL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 5Stephane QuintalD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 27David WilkieD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Terry RyanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Scott ThorntonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 25Vincent DamphousseC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 28Marc BureauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 35Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 42Darcy TuckerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 34Peter PopovicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 38Vladimir MalakhovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 6 | – |
| 48Francois GroleauD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Pat JablonskiG | L | 40 | 5 | .875 |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | 0 | 0 | – |