Vancouver Canucks vs Los Angeles Kings
Regular season · Tuesday, January 7, 1997 · Great Western Forum
Game summary
The Los Angeles Kings beat the Vancouver Canucks 6–2 on Tuesday, January 7, 1997 at Great Western Forum. The Canucks outshot the Kings 38–32.
Vladimir Tsyplakov scored twice and Eddie Olczyk scored a hat trick. Kevin Stevens, Adrian Aucoin and Pavel Bure also scored.
Stephane Fiset made 36 saves on 38 shots for the win; Corey Hirsch stopped 26 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Vladimir Tsyplakov (10)Kai Nurminen (6), Dmitri Khristich (22)0–102:51 LAK
Kevin Stevens (5)Neal Broten (5), Ray Ferraro (15)0–204:56 LAK · 
Adrian Aucoin (3)Unassisted1–213:56 VAN
2nd period
Eddie Olczyk (11)Aki Berg (1), Brad Smyth (4)1–309:22 LAK- Vladimir Tsyplakov (11)Dmitri Khristich (23)1–412:55 LAK
3rd period
- Eddie Olczyk (12)Brad Smyth (5)1–513:37 LAK
Pavel Bure (17)Alexander Mogilny (22), Bret Hedican (7)2–516:41 VAN- Eddie Olczyk (13)Kevin Stevens (12)2–618:55 LAK ·
Team stats
VANLAK
3832
0%0%
0/11/2
119
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:18 into the first period
Donald Brashear · interference obstruction2 min - 8:55 into the first period
Matt Johnson · slashing2 min - 11:19 into the second periodMatt Johnson · slashing2 min
- 11:19 into the second periodGino Odjick · elbowing2 min
- 13:18 into the second periodDave Babych · slashing2 min
- 19:33 into the third periodMatt Johnson · fighting5 min
- 19:33 into the third periodDonald Brashear · fighting5 min
Season series
Vancouver Canucks
| 89Alexander MogilnyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 96Pavel BureR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 3Bret HedicanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 6Adrian AucoinD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 7David RobertsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Esa TikkanenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 14Lonny BohonosR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 17Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 19Markus NaslundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 23Martin GelinasL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 24Scott WalkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 26Mike SillingerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 29Gino OdjickL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Mark WottonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 27Leif RohlinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 32Chris JosephD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Kirk McLeanG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Corey HirschG | L | 31 | 5 | .839 |
Los Angeles Kings
| 7Eddie OlczykR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 8Dmitri KhristichR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 9Vladimir TsyplakovL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 11Brad SmythR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 25Kevin StevensL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 10Neal BrotenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Ray FerraroC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 21Kai NurminenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Aki BergD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Matt JohnsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Ian LaperriereR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 40Barry PotomskiL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 42Dan BylsmaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Doug ZmolekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Mattias NorstromD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 15Jaroslav ModryD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Philippe BoucherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 6 | – |
| 33Jan VopatD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Byron DafoeG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Stephane FisetG | W | 38 | 2 | .947 |