Phoenix Coyotes vs Tampa Bay Lightning
Regular season · Thursday, March 6, 1997 · Ice Palace
Game summary
The Phoenix Coyotes beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 5–0 on Thursday, March 6, 1997 at Ice Palace. The Coyotes outshot the Lightning 34–30.
Mike Gartner scored twice. Craig Janney, Dallas Drake and Oleg Tverdovsky also scored.
Nikolai Khabibulin made 30 saves on 30 shots for the win; Rick Tabaracci stopped 18 of 22.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 PHX | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 34 |
 TBL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Scoring
1st period
Craig Janney (11)Teppo Numminen (19), Jeremy Roenick (30)1–007:43 PHX
2nd period
Dallas Drake (10)Unassisted2–006:40 PHX
Oleg Tverdovsky (9)Norm MacIver (6), Cliff Ronning (24)3–008:50 PHX · 
Mike Gartner (30)Norm MacIver (7), Oleg Tverdovsky (38)4–009:46 PHX ·
3rd period
- Mike Gartner (31)Cliff Ronning (25), Keith Tkachuk (29)5–001:56 PHX
Team stats
PHXTBL
3430
0%0%
2/50/3
610
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:53 into the first periodRoman Hamrlik · hooking2 min
- 8:26 into the first periodJim Johnson · hooking2 min
- 12:24 into the first periodDino Ciccarelli · slashing2 min
- 14:31 into the first periodRob Zamuner · slashing2 min
- 17:01 into the first periodJayson More · holding2 min
- 8:36 into the second periodChris Gratton · elbowing2 min
- 8:36 into the second periodChris Gratton · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 10:49 into the second periodDarrin Shannon · hooking2 min
Season series
Phoenix Coyotes
| 22Mike GartnerR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 7 | – |
| 77Cliff RonningC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 20Oleg TverdovskyD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 44Norm MacIverD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 7Keith TkachukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 11Dallas DrakeR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 15Craig JanneyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 97Jeremy RoenickC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 14Mike StapletonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Kris KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Bob CorkumC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 23Igor KorolevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 33Jim McKenzieL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 34Darrin ShannonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 4Dave MansonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 6Jayson MoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Jim JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Parris DuffusG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | W | 30 | 0 | 1.000 |
Tampa Bay Lightning
| 7Rob ZamunerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 9Jeff TomsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11Shawn BurrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 12John CullenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Daymond LangkowC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 22Dino CiccarelliR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Jason WiemerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 28Patrick PoulinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 34Mikael AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 74Brantt MyhresR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 77Chris GrattonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 6 | – |
| 2Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 4Cory CrossD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Igor UlanovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 20Rudy PoeschekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 27David ShawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 44Roman HamrlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 55Drew BannisterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Rick TabaracciG | L | 22 | 4 | .818 |
| 32Corey SchwabG | 12 | 1 | .917 |