Philadelphia Flyers vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Thursday, February 20, 1997 · Ice Palace
Game summary
The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5–2 on Thursday, February 20, 1997 at Ice Palace. The Lightning outshot the Flyers 40–30.
Goals came from Daymond Langkow, Eric Lindros, Chris Gratton, Dino Ciccarelli, Rod Brind'Amour, Roman Hamrlik and Jason Wiemer.
Rick Tabaracci made 28 saves on 30 shots for the win; Ron Hextall stopped 35 of 39.
Scoring
1st period
Daymond Langkow (11)Bill Houlder (13), Shawn Burr (16)0–104:17 TBL · 
Eric Lindros (19)Mikael Renberg (25), John LeClair (31)1–104:57 PHI
Chris Gratton (19)Mikael Andersson (9), Bill Houlder (14)1–205:22 TBL
Dino Ciccarelli (23)Shawn Burr (17), Daymond Langkow (9)1–311:14 TBL
Rod Brind'Amour (19)Paul Coffey (18), Janne Niinimaa (30)2–316:19 PHI ·
2nd period
Roman Hamrlik (9)Chris Gratton (24), Rob Zamuner (24)2–408:37 TBL
3rd period
Jason Wiemer (5)Jeff Toms (3)2–519:36 TBL ·
Team stats
PHITBL
3040
0%0%
1/71/6
1426
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:33 into the first period
John Druce · cross checking2 min - 6:10 into the first period
Shawn Burr · tripping2 min - 14:26 into the first periodRudy Poeschek · interference2 min
- 18:29 into the first periodCory Cross · high sticking double minor4 min
- 2:06 into the second periodPaul Coffey · hooking2 min
- 4:34 into the second periodPetr Svoboda · cross checking2 min
- 11:06 into the second periodPetr Svoboda · holding2 min
- 12:26 into the second periodBill Houlder · holding2 min
- 18:50 into the second periodJoel Otto · roughing2 min
- 18:50 into the second periodJoel Otto · roughing2 min
- 18:50 into the second periodBrantt Myhres · misconduct10 min
- 18:50 into the second periodChris Gratton · roughing2 min
- 19:58 into the second periodCory Cross · hooking2 min
- 5:53 into the third periodPat Falloon · slashing2 min
- 9:40 into the third periodRudy Poeschek · charging2 min
Season series
Philadelphia Flyers
| 10John LeClairL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Rod Brind'AmourC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 19Mikael RenbergR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 88Eric LindrosC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 44Janne NiinimaaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 77Paul CoffeyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15Pat FalloonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 20Trent KlattR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 21Dan KordicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 25Shjon PodeinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 26John DruceR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Joel OttoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 32Daniel LacroixC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 6Chris TherienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 8Michel PetitD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 23Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 37Eric DesjardinsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Ron HextallG | L | 39 | 4 | .897 |
| 30Garth SnowG | 0 | 0 | – |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 11Shawn BurrL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 18Daymond LangkowC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 2Bill HoulderD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 7Rob ZamunerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 9Jeff TomsL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 22Dino CiccarelliR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 24Jason WiemerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 34Mikael AnderssonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 44Roman HamrlikD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 17Brent PetersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Patrick PoulinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 29Alexander SelivanovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 74Brantt MyhresR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Cory CrossD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Rudy PoeschekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27David ShawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 55Drew BannisterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Rick TabaracciG | W | 30 | 2 | .933 |
| 32Corey SchwabG | 0 | 0 | – |