Montréal Canadiens vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Thursday, January 9, 1997 · FleetCenter
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–4 on Thursday, January 9, 1997 at FleetCenter. The Bruins outshot the Canadiens 42–30.
Mark Recchi scored twice and Rick Tocchet scored twice. Sheldon Kennedy, Darcy Tucker, Jeff Odgers, Brian Savage and Jozef Stumpel also scored.
Robbie Tallas made 26 saves on 30 shots for the win; Jocelyn Thibault stopped 37 of 42.
Scoring
2nd period
Sheldon Kennedy (4)Jean-Yves Roy (3), Jozef Stumpel (24)0–101:39 BOS
Mark Recchi (18)Brian Savage (28), Vincent Damphousse (22)1–102:38 MTL
Darcy Tucker (4)Turner Stevenson (7)2–106:01 MTL
Rick Tocchet (8)Ted Donato (14), Adam Oates (27)2–206:36 BOS
Jeff Odgers (6)Kyle McLaren (5), Brett Harkins (13)2–308:37 BOS- Mark Recchi (19)Stephane Richer (15), Stephane Quintal (9)3–312:18 MTL ·
3rd period
Brian Savage (15)Vincent Damphousse (23)4–304:54 MTL- Rick Tocchet (9)Adam Oates (28), Jozef Stumpel (25)4–407:33 BOS ·
Jozef Stumpel (12)Sheldon Kennedy (5), Ray Bourque (13)4–518:02 BOS
Team stats
MTLBOS
3042
0%0%
1/21/5
104
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:54 into the first period
Darcy Tucker · hooking2 min - 18:20 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 11:24 into the second period
Cameron Stewart · roughing2 min - 13:49 into the second periodDon Sweeney · interference2 min
- 0:28 into the third periodVincent Damphousse · slashing2 min
- 6:11 into the third periodChris Murray · high sticking2 min
- 10:53 into the third periodMurray Baron · cross checking2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 8Mark RecchiR | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 25Vincent DamphousseC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 49Brian SavageL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 30Turner StevensonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 42Darcy TuckerR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 5Stephane QuintalD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Pierre SevignyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Benoit BrunetL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 20Eric HoudeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Chris MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 24Scott ThorntonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 71Sebastien BordeleauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3David WilkieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 34Peter PopovicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 35Jassen CullimoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 36Murray BaronD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Pat JablonskiG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Jocelyn ThibaultG | L | 42 | 5 | .881 |
Boston Bruins
| 16Jozef StumpelL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 12Adam OatesC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Rick TocchetR | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 33Sheldon KennedyR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 21Ted DonatoL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 7 | – |
| 36Jeff OdgersR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 43Jean-Yves RoyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 65Brett HarkinsL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 18Kyle McLarenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 77Ray BourqueD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 6 | – |
| 19Rob DiMaioR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Trent McClearyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Cameron StewartL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 28Dean ChynowethD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 32Don SweeneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 38Jon RohloffD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 46Barry RichterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 48Steve StaiosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Robbie TallasG | W | 30 | 4 | .867 |
| 39Scott BaileyG | 0 | 0 | – |