New York Rangers vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Wednesday, January 22, 1997 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Washington Capitals 5–3 on Wednesday, January 22, 1997 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Rangers 40–28.
Brian Leetch scored twice and Peter Bondra scored twice. Luc Robitaille, Vladimir Vorobiev, Steve Konowalchuk and Adam Graves also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Brian Leetch (14)Wayne Gretzky (47), Niklas Sundstrom (16)1–003:53 NYR
Luc Robitaille (20)Mark Messier (25), Brian Leetch (36)2–010:23 NYR · 
Vladimir Vorobiev (2)Wayne Gretzky (48), Alexander Karpovtsev (21)3–011:57 NYR
2nd period
Steve Konowalchuk (8)Dale Hunter (22), Sylvain Cote (8)3–107:28 WSH
Peter Bondra (28)Sergei Gonchar (12)3–219:02 WSH
3rd period
- Peter Bondra (29)Michal Pivonka (11), Mike Eagles (5)3–313:15 WSH
- Brian Leetch (15)Niklas Sundstrom (17), Mark Messier (26)4–319:23 NYR
Adam Graves (15)Niklas Sundstrom (18), Mark Messier (27)5–319:39 NYR ·
Team stats
NYRWSH
2840
0%0%
1/40/5
1725
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:21 into the first period
Ulf Samuelsson · slashing2 min - 5:20 into the first periodDarren Langdon · interference2 min
- 9:16 into the first period
Eric Charron · boarding2 min - 9:54 into the first periodJoe Juneau · high sticking2 min
- 14:54 into the first periodDarren Langdon · slashing2 min
- 14:54 into the first periodPeter Bondra · slashing2 min
- 6:51 into the second periodShane Churla · fighting5 min
- 6:51 into the second periodKevin Kaminski · fighting5 min
- 9:01 into the second periodJason Allison · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 11:36 into the second periodAlexander Karpovtsev · roughing2 min
- 12:46 into the second periodBrian Leetch · slashing2 min
- 8:36 into the third periodChris Simon · interference2 min
- 8:36 into the third periodChris Simon · misconduct10 min
- 19:53 into the third periodDarren Langdon · roughing2 min
Season series
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