Montréal Canadiens vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Thursday, January 30, 1997 · Ice Palace
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4–1 on Thursday, January 30, 1997 at Ice Palace. The Lightning outshot the Canadiens 36–31.
Martin Rucinsky scored twice. Brian Savage, John Cullen and Mark Recchi also scored.
Jocelyn Thibault made 35 saves on 36 shots for the win; Corey Schwab stopped 27 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Martin Rucinsky (13)Vincent Damphousse (28), Valeri Bure (4)1–005:20 MTL
2nd period
Brian Savage (17)Shayne Corson (9), Stephane Quintal (13)2–000:44 MTL- Martin Rucinsky (14)Vincent Damphousse (29), Valeri Bure (5)3–003:25 MTL
John Cullen (13)Shawn Burr (13)3–110:14 TBL
3rd period
Mark Recchi (24)Unassisted4–114:18 MTL
Team stats
MTLTBL
3136
0%0%
0/40/3
3133
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:31 into the first period
Stephane Quintal · fighting5 min - 9:31 into the first period
Brantt Myhres · fighting5 min - 12:29 into the first periodDavid Wilkie · fighting5 min
- 12:29 into the first periodPatrick Poulin · fighting5 min
- 16:28 into the first periodDarcy Tucker · fighting5 min
- 16:28 into the first periodCorey Schwab · slashing2 min
- 16:28 into the first periodIgor Ulanov · fighting5 min
- 1:21 into the second periodCraig Wolanin · cross checking2 min
- 4:16 into the second periodTurner Stevenson · holding2 min
- 11:47 into the second periodRob Zamuner · interference2 min
- 0:25 into the third periodPatrick Poulin · holding the stick2 min
- 5:17 into the third periodJassen Cullimore · interference2 min
- 16:52 into the third periodJassen Cullimore · interference2 min
- 19:07 into the third periodDarcy Tucker · fighting5 min
- 19:07 into the third periodJohn Cullen · fighting5 min
- 19:36 into the third periodTurner Stevenson · fighting5 min
- 19:36 into the third periodJason Wiemer · fighting5 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 18Valeri BureR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 25Vincent DamphousseC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 8Mark RecchiR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 27Shayne CorsonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 49Brian SavageL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 5Stephane QuintalD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Eric HoudeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Chris MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Scott ThorntonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 30Turner StevensonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 42Darcy TuckerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 71Sebastien BordeleauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3David WilkieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 34Peter PopovicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 35Jassen CullimoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 36Murray BaronD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 38Vladimir MalakhovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39Pat JablonskiG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Jocelyn ThibaultG | W | 36 | 1 | .972 |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 11Shawn BurrL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 12John CullenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Rob ZamunerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 15Paul YsebaertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 18Daymond LangkowC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Dino CiccarelliR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 24Jason WiemerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 28Patrick PoulinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 29Alexander SelivanovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 34Mikael AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 74Brantt MyhresR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 2Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 5Igor UlanovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 6Craig WolaninD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 27David ShawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 44Roman HamrlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 55Drew BannisterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Rick TabaracciG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Corey SchwabG | L | 31 | 4 | .871 |