Los Angeles Kings vs St. Louis Blues
Regular season · Sunday, December 22, 1996 · Kiel Center
Game summary
The St. Louis Blues beat the Los Angeles Kings 7–4 on Sunday, December 22, 1996 at Kiel Center. The Blues outshot the Kings 34–27.
Brett Hull scored a hat trick. Al MacInnis, Vladimir Tsyplakov, Ray Ferraro, Kevin Stevens, Geoff Courtnall, Pierre Turgeon, Stephane Matteau and Ian Laperriere also scored.
Grant Fuhr made 23 saves on 27 shots for the win; Stephane Fiset stopped 23 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Al MacInnis (10)Joe Murphy (7), Jim Campbell (13)0–108:19 STL · 
Vladimir Tsyplakov (8)Vitali Yachmenev (9), Ray Ferraro (11)1–118:24 LAK
Brett Hull (13)Pierre Turgeon (20), Al MacInnis (12)1–219:41 STL
2nd period
- Brett Hull (14)Al MacInnis (13)1–303:10 STL
Ray Ferraro (14)Vladimir Tsyplakov (6), Brad Smyth (2)2–303:58 LAK
Kevin Stevens (4)Sean O'Donnell (4), Neal Broten (2)3–307:03 LAK
Geoff Courtnall (10)Pierre Turgeon (21), Igor Kravchuk (13)3–413:32 STL
Pierre Turgeon (5)Unassisted3–517:19 STL
3rd period
Stephane Matteau (10)Brett Hull (17), Pierre Turgeon (22)3–600:20 STL- Brett Hull (15)Pierre Turgeon (23)3–710:25 STL
Ian Laperriere (3)Barry Potomski (1)4–718:42 LAK
Team stats
LAKSTL
2734
0%0%
0/30/3
2531
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:19 into the first period
Doug Zmolek · fighting5 min - 6:19 into the first periodSean O'Donnell · roughing2 min
- 6:19 into the first period
Sergio Momesso · fighting5 min - 6:19 into the first periodSergio Momesso · attempt to injure10 min
- 19:09 into the first periodRob Blake · roughing2 min
- 19:09 into the first periodIan Laperriere · fighting5 min
- 19:09 into the first periodMarc Bergevin · fighting5 min
- 19:09 into the first periodStephane Matteau · roughing2 min
- 9:08 into the second periodBrad Smyth · slashing2 min
- 10:03 into the second periodRob Blake · high sticking2 min
- 10:13 into the second periodSean O'Donnell · slashing2 min
- 14:47 into the second periodChris Pronger · hooking2 min
- 4:48 into the third periodJim Campbell · roughing2 min
- 16:21 into the third periodBrad Smyth · fighting5 min
- 16:21 into the third periodMike Peluso · fighting5 min
Season series
Los Angeles Kings
| 9Vladimir TsyplakovL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 20Ray FerraroC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Neal BrotenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Brad SmythR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Ian LaperriereR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Kevin StevensL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 40Barry PotomskiL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 43Vitali YachmenevR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 6Sean O'DonnellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 7Eddie OlczykR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Dmitri KhristichR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Kai NurminenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 42Dan BylsmaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 2Doug ZmolekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 4Rob BlakeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 14Mattias NorstromD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Jaroslav ModryD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Philippe BoucherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Byron DafoeG | 4 | 0 | 1.000 | |
| 35Stephane FisetG | L | 30 | 7 | .767 |
St. Louis Blues
| 77Pierre TurgeonC | 1 | 4 | 5 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 16Brett HullR | 3 | 1 | 4 | +4 | 7 | – |
| 2Al MacInnisD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 6 | – |
| 10Jim CampbellR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 14Geoff CourtnallL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 17Joe MurphyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 32Stephane MatteauL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 5Igor KravchukD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 12Rob PearsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 20Mike PelusoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 22Craig ConroyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Craig MacTavishC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 26Sergio MomessoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 37Harry YorkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 4Marc BergevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Ricard PerssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 33Trent YawneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 44Chris ProngerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Jon CaseyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Grant FuhrG | W | 27 | 4 | .852 |