New York Rangers vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Tuesday, December 31, 1996 · Ice Palace
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the New York Rangers 4–2 on Tuesday, December 31, 1996 at Ice Palace. The Lightning outshot the Rangers 33–27.
Goals came from Chris Gratton, Alexander Selivanov, John Cullen, Adam Graves, Brian Noonan and Roman Hamrlik.
Rick Tabaracci made 25 saves on 27 shots for the win; Glenn Healy stopped 29 of 32.
Scoring
1st period
Chris Gratton (13)Roman Hamrlik (15), John Cullen (23)0–102:52 TBL · 
Alexander Selivanov (10)Brian Bradley (11), Paul Ysebaert (2)0–203:37 TBL
John Cullen (10)Alexander Selivanov (4), Chris Gratton (13)0–308:05 TBL · 
Adam Graves (13)Bruce Driver (12), Alex Kovalev (19)1–312:56 NYR ·
3rd period
Brian Noonan (7)Unassisted2–318:27 NYR
Roman Hamrlik (6)Bill Houlder (7)2–419:30 TBL ·
Team stats
NYRTBL
2733
0%0%
1/42/3
1315
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:07 into the first period
Bruce Driver · holding2 min - 7:24 into the first periodUlf Samuelsson · roughing2 min
- 12:12 into the first period
David Shaw · interference2 min - 13:40 into the first periodUlf Samuelsson · fighting5 min
- 13:40 into the first periodPatrick Poulin · fighting5 min
- 16:18 into the first periodRick Tabaracci · delaying game2 min
- 8:12 into the second periodChris Gratton · roughing2 min
- 11:02 into the second periodIgor Ulanov · interference2 min
- 0:39 into the third periodAlex Kovalev · interference2 min
- 2:51 into the third periodAlexander Karpovtsev · high sticking2 min
- 2:51 into the third periodDino Ciccarelli · high sticking2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 9Adam GravesL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 28Brian NoonanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 33Bruce DriverD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Patrick FlatleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Mark MessierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 13Sergei NemchinovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 16Daniel GoneauL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Bill BergL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 20Luc RobitailleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 22Shane ChurlaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Niklas SundstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 6Doug LidsterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Jeff BeukeboomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 25Alexander KarpovtsevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Glenn HealyG | L | 32 | 3 | .906 |
| 35Mike RichterG | 0 | 0 | – |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 12John CullenC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 29Alexander SelivanovR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 44Roman HamrlikD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15Paul YsebaertL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Brian BradleyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 2Bill HoulderD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 7Rob ZamunerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 9Jeff TomsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Daymond LangkowC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 22Dino CiccarelliR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Patrick PoulinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 34Mikael AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 74Brantt MyhresR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Cory CrossD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Igor UlanovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27David ShawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 55Drew BannisterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Rick TabaracciG | W | 27 | 2 | .926 |
| 32Corey SchwabG | 0 | 0 | – |