Phoenix Coyotes vs Vancouver Canucks
Regular season · Thursday, February 27, 1997 · General Motors Place
Game summary
The Vancouver Canucks beat the Phoenix Coyotes 6–2 on Thursday, February 27, 1997 at General Motors Place. The Coyotes outshot the Canucks 33–17.
Martin Gelinas scored 4 goals. Jyrki Lumme, Russ Courtnall, Cliff Ronning and Jim McKenzie also scored.
Kirk McLean made 31 saves on 33 shots for the win; Nikolai Khabibulin stopped 4 of 9.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 PHX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 33 |
 VAN | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 17 |
Scoring
1st period
Martin Gelinas (20)Jyrki Lumme (16), Pavel Bure (32)0–102:42 VAN · - Martin Gelinas (21)Russ Courtnall (15)0–210:17 VAN
2nd period
Jyrki Lumme (10)Russ Courtnall (16), Leif Rohlin (8)0–303:02 VAN- Martin Gelinas (22)Jyrki Lumme (17), Trevor Linden (25)0–406:09 VAN
- Martin Gelinas (23)Russ Courtnall (17), Trevor Linden (26)0–511:11 VAN
Russ Courtnall (9)Martin Gelinas (23), Trevor Linden (27)0–617:32 VAN
3rd period
Cliff Ronning (16)Unassisted1–603:16 PHX
Jim McKenzie (5)Craig Janney (27), Jeremy Roenick (29)2–611:12 PHX
Team stats
PHXVAN
3317
0%0%
0/51/3
610
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:36 into the first periodNorm MacIver · hooking2 min
- 12:02 into the first periodTrevor Linden · interference obstruction2 min
- 14:54 into the first periodMarkus Naslund · slashing2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodDana Murzyn · high sticking2 min
- 1:42 into the second periodMike Ridley · high sticking2 min
- 2:10 into the second periodNorm MacIver · interference obstruction2 min
- 12:40 into the second periodJim McKenzie · charging2 min
- 8:47 into the third periodDana Murzyn · boarding2 min
Season series
Phoenix Coyotes
| 15Craig JanneyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 33Jim McKenzieL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 77Cliff RonningC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 97Jeremy RoenickC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −4 | 5 | – |
| 7Keith TkachukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5 | 2 | – |
| 11Dallas DrakeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Mike StapletonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Kris KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 21Bob CorkumC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Mike GartnerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 23Igor KorolevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 34Darrin ShannonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Dave MansonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 6Jayson MoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 20Oleg TverdovskyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Kevin DahlD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 44Norm MacIverD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Parris DuffusG | 8 | 1 | .875 | |
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | L | 9 | 5 | .444 |
Vancouver Canucks
| 23Martin GelinasL | 4 | 1 | 5 | +3 | 6 | – |
| 9Russ CourtnallR | 1 | 3 | 4 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 16Trevor LindenC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +4 | 1 | – |
| 21Jyrki LummeD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +4 | 1 | – |
| 96Pavel BureR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27Leif RohlinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 10Esa TikkanenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 19Markus NaslundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 22Larry CourvilleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Scott WalkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Mike SillingerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Gino OdjickL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 89Alexander MogilnyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Bret HedicanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Dana MurzynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 6Adrian AucoinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Kirk McLeanG | W | 33 | 2 | .939 |
| 31Corey HirschG | 0 | 0 | – |