Philadelphia Flyers vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Thursday, November 7, 1996 · Marine Midland Arena
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Buffalo Sabres 5–2 on Thursday, November 7, 1996 at Marine Midland Arena. The Flyers outshot the Sabres 38–15.
Derek Plante scored twice and John LeClair scored twice. John Druce, Mikael Renberg and Daniel Lacroix also scored.
Ron Hextall made 13 saves on 15 shots for the win; Dominik Hasek stopped 33 of 37.
Scoring
1st period
Derek Plante (6)Anatoli Semenov (2), Michal Grosek (3)0–105:24 BUF
2nd period
- Derek Plante (7)Anatoli Semenov (3), Michal Grosek (4)0–211:36 BUF
John Druce (3)Dale Hawerchuk (3), John LeClair (7)1–212:35 PHI
3rd period
John LeClair (6)Mikael Renberg (10), Janne Niinimaa (4)2–206:42 PHI · 
Mikael Renberg (3)John LeClair (8), Dale Hawerchuk (4)3–210:27 PHI- John LeClair (7)Unassisted4–215:59 PHI
Daniel Lacroix (2)Rod Brind'Amour (6), Eric Desjardins (8)5–219:03 PHI ·
Team stats
PHIBUF
3815
0%0%
1/50/4
1810
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 13:28 into the first period
Joel Otto · holding2 min - 18:07 into the first period
Pat LaFontaine · hooking obstruction2 min - 1:16 into the second periodMichael Peca · boarding2 min
- 0:22 into the third periodRod Brind'Amour · interference2 min
- 1:38 into the third periodJoel Otto · slashing2 min
- 1:38 into the third periodJoel Otto · misconduct10 min
- 2:09 into the third periodRandy Burridge · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 5:14 into the third periodGarry Galley · tripping2 min
- 6:01 into the third periodJason Dawe · high sticking2 min
- 13:12 into the third periodMikael Renberg · holding2 min
Season series
Philadelphia Flyers
| 10John LeClairL | 2 | 2 | 4 | +3 | 6 | – |
| 18Dale HawerchukC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 19Mikael RenbergR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 17Rod Brind'AmourC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 26John DruceR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 32Daniel LacroixC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 37Eric DesjardinsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 44Janne NiinimaaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Pat FalloonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 20Trent KlattR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 21Dan KordicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Shjon PodeinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 29Joel OttoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Chris TherienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 24Karl DykhuisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 28Kjell SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Ron HextallG | W | 15 | 2 | .867 |
| 30Garth SnowG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 18Michal GrosekL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Derek PlanteC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 93Anatoli SemenovC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Randy BurridgeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 15Dixon WardL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 17Jason DaweR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 19Brian HolzingerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Michael PecaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Donald AudetteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 32Rob RayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 37Curtis BrownC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Garry GalleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 4Mike WilsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Bob BoughnerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 8Darryl ShannonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 42Richard SmehlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Andrei TrefilovG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Dominik HasekG | L | 37 | 4 | .892 |