New Jersey Devils vs Phoenix Coyotes
Regular season · Thursday, November 28, 1996 · America West Arena
Game summary
The Phoenix Coyotes beat the New Jersey Devils 4–3 in overtime on Thursday, November 28, 1996 at America West Arena. The Devils outshot the Coyotes 39–25.
Keith Tkachuk scored a hat trick. Steve Thomas, Chad Kilger, John MacLean and Kevin Dean also scored.
Nikolai Khabibulin made 36 saves on 39 shots for the win; Martin Brodeur stopped 21 of 25.
| Goals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 NJD | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 39 |
 PHX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 25 |
Scoring
1st period
Steve Thomas (4)Dave Andreychuk (6)1–018:26 NJD
2nd period
Keith Tkachuk (8)Craig Janney (7), Oleg Tverdovsky (10)1–105:44 PHX
Chad Kilger (4)Cliff Ronning (4), Igor Korolev (1)1–208:48 PHX- Keith Tkachuk (9)Brad McCrimmon (3), Deron Quint (2)1–313:01 PHX
John MacLean (8)Denis Pederson (3), Randy Mckay (6)2–318:15 NJD
3rd period
Kevin Dean (1)Steve Thomas (9), Dave Andreychuk (7)3–310:37 NJD
Overtime
- Keith Tkachuk (10)Jeff Finley (3)3–404:08 PHX
Team stats
NJDPHX
3925
0%0%
0/50/1
1117
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:09 into the first periodLyle Odelein · high sticking2 min
- 12:48 into the first periodIgor Korolev · high sticking double minor4 min
- 14:41 into the first periodBill Guerin · interference2 min
- 3:30 into the second periodCraig Janney · hooking2 min
- 16:13 into the second periodDave Manson · holding2 min
- 2:16 into the third periodLyle Odelein · fighting5 min
- 2:16 into the third periodKris King · fighting5 min
- 7:12 into the third periodBrad McCrimmon · hooking2 min
- 13:27 into the third periodRandy Mckay · roughing2 min
- 13:27 into the third periodKris King · roughing2 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 23Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 32Steve ThomasR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 10Denis PedersonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15John MacLeanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 21Randy MckayR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Kevin DeanD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 12Bill GuerinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 7 | – |
| 14Brian RolstonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 16Bobby HolikC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Petr SykoraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 19Bobby CarpenterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 20Jay PandolfoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Valeri ZelepukinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 4Scott StevensD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Lyle OdeleinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 26Jason SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Scott NiedermayerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike DunhamG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Martin BrodeurG | L | 25 | 4 | .840 |
Phoenix Coyotes
| 7Keith TkachukL | 3 | 0 | 3 | +2 | 7 | – |
| 15Craig JanneyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 18Chad KilgerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Igor KorolevC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 77Cliff RonningC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 5Deron QuintD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 10Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Oleg TverdovskyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 26Jeff FinleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 14Mike StapletonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Kris KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 21Bob CorkumC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Mike GartnerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 28Mike HudsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 33Jim McKenzieL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 34Darrin ShannonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 4Dave MansonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | W | 39 | 3 | .923 |
| 43Darcy WakalukG | 0 | 0 | – |