Toronto Maple Leafs vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Sunday, December 15, 1996 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 3–1 on Sunday, December 15, 1996 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Maple Leafs 52–22.
Goals came from Brendan Shanahan, Darren McCarty, Sergei Fedorov and Sergei Berezin.
Chris Osgood made 21 saves on 22 shots for the win; Felix Potvin stopped 49 of 52.
Scoring
2nd period
Brendan Shanahan (17)Nicklas Lidstrom (16)0–107:16 DET · 
Darren McCarty (10)Nicklas Lidstrom (17), Brendan Shanahan (16)0–208:38 DET
Sergei Fedorov (10)Doug Brown (4)0–309:20 DET · 
Sergei Berezin (10)Jamie Heward (4), Dave Ellett (6)1–313:30 TOR
Team stats
TORDET
2252
0%0%
0/31/4
1515
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 10:10 into the first period
Matt Martin · tripping2 min - 12:14 into the first period
Viacheslav Fetisov · hooking2 min - 12:27 into the first periodDoug Gilmour · holding2 min
- 6:33 into the second periodMats Sundin · hooking obstruction2 min
- 9:07 into the second periodKris Draper · interference obstruction2 min
- 12:50 into the second periodDarren McCarty · fighting5 min
- 12:50 into the second periodTie Domi · fighting5 min
- 13:50 into the third periodVladimir Konstantinov · cross checking2 min
- 16:54 into the third periodTim Taylor · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 16:54 into the third periodDave Ellett · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 16:54 into the third periodSergei Berezin · hooking2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodSteve Yzerman · hooking2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 94Sergei BerezinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Dave EllettD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 26Jamie HewardD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Kelly FairchildC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Todd WarrinerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Brandon ConveryC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 13Mats SundinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Darby HendricksonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Brian WisemanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Freddy ModinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Kirk MullerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 28Tie DomiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 93Doug GilmourC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Rob ZettlerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Matt MartinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Tom PedersonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 42David CooperD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 55Larry MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Felix PotvinG | L | 52 | 3 | .942 |
| 31Marcel CousineauG | 0 | 0 | – |
Detroit Red Wings
| 14Brendan ShanahanL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 5Nicklas LidstromD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 7 | – |
| 17Doug BrownR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 25Darren McCartyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 91Sergei FedorovC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 8Igor LarionovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Mathieu DandenaultR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 7 | – |
| 15Tomas HolmstromL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Steve YzermanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 20Martin LapointeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 23Greg JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 33Kris DraperC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 37Tim TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Viacheslav FetisovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Bob RouseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Jamie PushorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Vladimir KonstantinovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Mike VernonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Chris OsgoodG | W | 22 | 1 | .955 |