Montréal Canadiens vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Friday, November 15, 1996 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Montréal Canadiens 3–1 on Friday, November 15, 1996 at Capital Centre. The Canadiens outshot the Capitals 31–24.
Goals came from Brian Savage, Peter Bondra, Kelly Miller and Sergei Gonchar.
Jim Carey made 30 saves on 31 shots for the win; Jocelyn Thibault stopped 21 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Brian Savage (9)Saku Koivu (15), Mark Recchi (14)1–000:54 MTL
Peter Bondra (6)Chris Simon (2), Phil Housley (7)1–108:44 WSH
2nd period
Kelly Miller (1)Steve Konowalchuk (6), Dale Hunter (6)1–209:16 WSH
3rd period
Sergei Gonchar (3)Todd Krygier (7), Joe Juneau (11)1–301:40 WSH
Team stats
MTLWSH
3124
0%0%
0/20/1
2214
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:51 into the first period
Scott Thornton · roughing2 min - 2:51 into the first period
Craig Berube · roughing2 min - 6:19 into the first periodScott Thornton · roughing2 min
- 6:19 into the first periodChris Murray · misconduct10 min
- 6:19 into the first periodChris Simon · roughing2 min
- 12:28 into the first periodJason Allison · tripping2 min
- 6:45 into the second periodStephane Quintal · slashing2 min
- 12:21 into the second periodKen Klee · interference2 min
- 19:08 into the third periodShayne Corson · roughing2 min
- 19:08 into the third periodDarcy Tucker · cross checking2 min
- 19:08 into the third periodKevin Kaminski · roughing2 min
- 19:08 into the third periodSergei Gonchar · roughing2 min
- 19:12 into the third periodSaku Koivu · slashing2 min
- 19:12 into the third periodMike Eagles · slashing2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 8Mark RecchiR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 49Brian SavageL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 18Valeri BureR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Chris MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Scott ThorntonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Vincent DamphousseC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 27Shayne CorsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 28Marc BureauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 42Darcy TuckerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3David WilkieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 5Stephane QuintalD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 34Peter PopovicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 36Murray BaronD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 38Vladimir MalakhovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Pat JablonskiG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Jocelyn ThibaultG | L | 24 | 3 | .875 |
Washington Capitals
| 10Kelly MillerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 12Peter BondraR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 17Chris SimonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Todd KrygierL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 22Steve KonowalchukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 90Joe JuneauC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 96Phil HousleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 13Andrei NikolishinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 23Kevin KaminskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Craig BerubeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 36Mike EaglesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 41Jason AllisonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Mark TinordiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 28Eric CharronD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 29Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Jim CareyG | W | 31 | 1 | .968 |
| 37Olie KolzigG | 0 | 0 | – |