Boston Bruins vs Phoenix Coyotes
Regular season · Saturday, February 15, 1997 · America West Arena
Game summary
The Phoenix Coyotes beat the Boston Bruins 5–4 in overtime on Saturday, February 15, 1997 at America West Arena. The Coyotes outshot the Bruins 37–28.
Rick Tocchet scored twice. Cliff Ronning, Darrin Shannon, Mike Gartner, Sheldon Kennedy, Keith Tkachuk, Barry Richter and Jayson More also scored.
Nikolai Khabibulin made 24 saves on 28 shots for the win; Bill Ranford stopped 32 of 37.
| Goals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 BOS | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 28 |
 PHX | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 37 |
Scoring
1st period
Cliff Ronning (15)Teppo Numminen (17), Mike Gartner (22)0–103:37 PHX · 
Darrin Shannon (8)Jayson More (3)0–203:54 PHX
Mike Gartner (24)Mike Stapleton (4), Dave Manson (13)0–308:12 PHX ·
2nd period
Sheldon Kennedy (5)Tim Sweeney (6), Don Sweeney (17)1–306:52 BOS ·
3rd period
Keith Tkachuk (37)Craig Janney (22), Jim Johnson (5)1–405:12 PHX
Rick Tocchet (14)Adam Oates (43), Don Sweeney (18)2–406:56 BOS- Rick Tocchet (15)Ray Bourque (22), Adam Oates (44)3–418:18 BOS
Barry Richter (5)Jozef Stumpel (35), Tim Sweeney (7)4–419:56 BOS
Overtime
Jayson More (1)Craig Janney (23), Jeremy Roenick (26)4–501:14 PHX
Team stats
BOSPHX
2837
0%0%
0/42/5
1614
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:03 into the first periodJean-Yves Roy · holding2 min
- 7:49 into the first periodTim Sweeney · tripping2 min
- 14:05 into the first periodKris King · tripping2 min
- 17:06 into the first periodJeff Odgers · roughing2 min
- 17:06 into the first periodJim McKenzie · roughing2 min
- 17:06 into the first periodJeremy Roenick · slashing2 min
- 5:39 into the second periodTed Donato · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 7:59 into the second periodLandon Wilson · roughing2 min
- 7:59 into the second periodKeith Tkachuk · roughing2 min
- 7:59 into the second periodKeith Tkachuk · roughing2 min
- 0:51 into the third periodDon Sweeney · holding2 min
- 2:28 into the third periodNorm MacIver · hooking2 min
- 4:10 into the third periodTim Sweeney · tripping2 min
- 4:10 into the third periodJayson More · roughing2 min
- 14:36 into the third periodRick Tocchet · interference2 min
Season series
Boston Bruins
| 12Adam OatesC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 22Rick TocchetR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 42Tim SweeneyR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 32Don SweeneyD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Jozef StumpelL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 33Sheldon KennedyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 46Barry RichterD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 77Ray BourqueD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 19Rob DiMaioR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 21Ted DonatoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 27Landon WilsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 29Troy MalletteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 36Jeff OdgersR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 43Jean-Yves RoyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 45Sandy MogerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 28Dean ChynowethD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 47Mattias TimanderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 48Steve StaiosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Bill RanfordG | L | 37 | 5 | .865 |
| 35Robbie TallasG | 0 | 0 | – |
Phoenix Coyotes
| 15Craig JanneyC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 22Mike GartnerR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 6Jayson MoreD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 7Keith TkachukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 14Mike StapletonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 34Darrin ShannonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 77Cliff RonningC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 5 | – |
| 97Jeremy RoenickC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 4Dave MansonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 8 | – |
| 8Jim JohnsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 17Kris KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 19Shane DoanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Bob CorkumC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 33Jim McKenzieL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Oleg TverdovskyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Jeff FinleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 44Norm MacIverD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Scott LangkowG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | W | 28 | 4 | .857 |