New York Islanders vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Wednesday, February 12, 1997 · Civic Arena
Game summary
The New York Islanders beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5–1 on Wednesday, February 12, 1997 at Civic Arena. The Penguins outshot the Islanders 31–29.
Goals came from Scott Lachance, Ron Francis, Niklas Andersson, Jason Holland, Travis Green and Ziggy Palffy.
Scoring
1st period
Scott Lachance (3)Travis Green (26), Bryan McCabe (10)1–001:40 NYI
Ron Francis (21)Jaromir Jagr (42), Ian Moran (3)1–117:39 PIT ·
2nd period
Niklas Andersson (7)Ziggy Palffy (28), Bryan Smolinski (14)2–103:32 NYI
Jason Holland (1)Kenny Jonsson (11), Randy Wood (3)3–118:44 NYI
3rd period
Travis Green (14)Derek King (27), Bryan Berard (28)4–107:04 NYI · 
Ziggy Palffy (32)Bryan Smolinski (15), Kenny Jonsson (12)5–117:36 NYI
Team stats
NYIPIT
2931
0%0%
1/51/5
1635
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:16 into the first period
Bryan McCabe · interference obstruction2 min - 10:11 into the first periodDoug Houda · hooking obstruction2 min
- 10:11 into the first period
Andreas Johansson · roughing2 min - 15:10 into the first periodChris Tamer · cross checking2 min
- 15:46 into the first periodBryan Berard · tripping2 min
- 16:27 into the first periodTodd Bertuzzi · interference obstruction2 min
- 19:51 into the first periodJoe Dziedzic · interference obstruction2 min
- 19:16 into the second periodTravis Green · hooking obstruction2 min
- 6:55 into the third periodChris Tamer · roughing2 min
- 7:04 into the third periodDarius Kasparaitis · misconduct10 min
- 9:44 into the third periodDave Roche · tripping2 min
- 13:44 into the third periodTravis Green · tripping2 min
- 14:54 into the third periodDan Plante · roughing2 min
- 14:54 into the third periodDan Plante · slashing2 min
- 14:54 into the third periodDave Roche · fighting5 min
- 14:54 into the third periodDave Roche · game misconduct10 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.