Colorado Avalanche vs Phoenix Coyotes
Regular season · Friday, November 8, 1996 · America West Arena
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Phoenix Coyotes 4–1 on Friday, November 8, 1996 at America West Arena. The Coyotes outshot the Avalanche 32–31.
Peter Forsberg scored twice. Keith Jones, Stephane Yelle and Mike Gartner also scored.
Patrick Roy made 31 saves on 32 shots for the win; Nikolai Khabibulin stopped 27 of 31.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 COL | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 31 |
 PHX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 32 |
Scoring
1st period
Peter Forsberg (7)Joe Sakic (18), Sandis Ozolinsh (10)1–007:16 COL · 
Keith Jones (5)Sandis Ozolinsh (11), Valeri Kamensky (7)2–012:18 COL ·
2nd period
Stephane Yelle (1)Sylvain Lefebvre (4)3–008:08 COL ·
3rd period
Mike Gartner (11)Keith Tkachuk (10), Teppo Numminen (6)3–113:39 PHX- Peter Forsberg (8)Sylvain Lefebvre (5)4–116:53 COL ·
Team stats
COLPHX
3132
0%0%
2/60/7
1917
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:44 into the first periodJoe Sakic · hooking2 min
- 6:45 into the first periodDave Manson · interference2 min
- 11:09 into the first periodChad Kilger · tripping2 min
- 12:50 into the first periodAdam Deadmarsh · fighting5 min
- 12:50 into the first periodDave Manson · fighting5 min
- 16:34 into the first periodPeter Forsberg · interference2 min
- 1:28 into the second periodJeff Finley · holding2 min
- 7:44 into the second periodAlexei Gusarov · high sticking2 min
- 9:18 into the second periodDave Manson · tripping2 min
- 16:36 into the second periodStephane Yelle · hooking2 min
- 5:02 into the third periodMike Keane · tripping2 min
- 11:46 into the third periodKris King · holding2 min
- 13:10 into the third periodBench · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 15:29 into the third periodAlexei Gusarov · charging2 min
- 18:05 into the third periodJim McKenzie · charging2 min
Season series
Colorado Avalanche
| 21Peter ForsbergC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 2Sylvain LefebvreD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 8Sandis OzolinshD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Keith JonesR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 13Valeri KamenskyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Joe SakicC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 26Stephane YelleC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 18Adam DeadmarshR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Rene CorbetL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Brent SeverynL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 25Mike KeaneR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 28Eric LacroixL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 48Scott YoungR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Aaron MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Uwe KruppD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Alexei GusarovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Jon KlemmD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 52Adam FooteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 32 | 1 | .969 |
Phoenix Coyotes
| 7Keith TkachukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 22Mike GartnerR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Dallas DrakeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 14Mike StapletonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 15Craig JanneyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Kris KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Chad KilgerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Shane DoanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Bob CorkumC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 33Jim McKenzieL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 34Darrin ShannonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 97Jeremy RoenickC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 4Dave MansonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 8Jim JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 10Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Oleg TverdovskyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Jeff FinleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | L | 31 | 4 | .871 |
| 43Darcy WakalukG | 0 | 0 | – |