New York Rangers vs Philadelphia Flyers
Regular season · Sunday, February 23, 1997 · CoreStates Center
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the New York Rangers 2–1 on Sunday, February 23, 1997 at CoreStates Center. The Flyers outshot the Rangers 37–15.
Goals came from Adam Graves, Pat Falloon and Janne Niinimaa.
Garth Snow made 14 saves on 15 shots for the win; Mike Richter stopped 35 of 37.
Scoring
1st period
Adam Graves (23)Alexander Karpovtsev (24), Sergei Nemchinov (13)1–002:35 NYR · 
Pat Falloon (7)Eric Desjardins (29), Petr Svoboda (9)1–115:15 PHI
2nd period
Janne Niinimaa (3)John LeClair (32)1–211:14 PHI
Team stats
NYRPHI
1537
0%0%
1/30/4
108
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:12 into the first period
Eric Lindros · roughing2 min - 4:36 into the first period
Ulf Samuelsson · holding the stick2 min - 5:00 into the first periodNiklas Sundstrom · hooking2 min
- 19:00 into the first periodDarren Langdon · roughing2 min
- 19:00 into the first periodGarth Snow · roughing2 min
- 3:46 into the second periodJeff Beukeboom · holding the stick2 min
- 12:41 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 14:35 into the second periodLuc Robitaille · holding2 min
- 19:07 into the second periodEric Lindros · slashing2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 9Adam GravesL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 13Sergei NemchinovL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Alexander KarpovtsevD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8Patrick FlatleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Darren LangdonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Bill BergL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 20Luc RobitailleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 24Niklas SundstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26David OliverR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Brian NoonanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 32Mike EastwoodC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 36Jeff NielsenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Jeff BeukeboomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Eric CairnsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 33Bruce DriverD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Glenn HealyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Mike RichterG | L | 37 | 2 | .946 |
Philadelphia Flyers
| 10John LeClairL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 15Pat FalloonR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 23Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 37Eric DesjardinsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 44Janne NiinimaaD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Rod Brind'AmourC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 19Mikael RenbergR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 20Trent KlattR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Dan KordicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Scott DanielsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 25Shjon PodeinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 26John DruceR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Joel OttoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 32Daniel LacroixC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 88Eric LindrosC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 6Chris TherienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 77Paul CoffeyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Ron HextallG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Garth SnowG | W | 15 | 1 | .933 |