Pittsburgh Penguins vs Philadelphia Flyers
Playoffs · Saturday, April 26, 1997 · CoreStates Center
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 6–3 on Saturday, April 26, 1997 at CoreStates Center. The Flyers outshot the Penguins 45–18.
Rod Brind'Amour scored twice. Eric Lindros, Kevin Hatcher, Mario Lemieux, Ron Francis, John LeClair, Trent Klatt and Vinny Prospal also scored.
Garth Snow made 15 saves on 18 shots for the win; Ken Wregget stopped 39 of 44.
Scoring
1st period
Eric Lindros (3)Mikael Renberg (4), Janne Niinimaa (4)0–100:14 PHI
Kevin Hatcher (1)Jaromir Jagr (2), Mario Lemieux (3)1–105:37 PIT · 
Mario Lemieux (3)Jaromir Jagr (3), Ron Francis (2)2–115:34 PIT
Rod Brind'Amour (2)Unassisted2–217:38 PHI · - Rod Brind'Amour (3)Karl Dykhuis (3)2–318:32 PHI ·
2nd period
Ron Francis (1)Jaromir Jagr (4), Fredrik Olausson (1)3–302:37 PIT · 
John LeClair (4)Janne Niinimaa (5), Petr Svoboda (2)3–407:30 PHI
Trent Klatt (2)Eric Desjardins (2)3–510:28 PHI
3rd period
Vinny Prospal (1)Rod Brind'Amour (2), Eric Lindros (6)3–619:55 PHI ·
Team stats
PITPHI
1845
0%0%
2/60/7
1614
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:15 into the first period
Greg Johnson · holding2 min - 5:23 into the first period
Dainius Zubrus · holding2 min - 11:46 into the first periodChris Tamer · cross checking2 min
- 16:50 into the first periodPetr Svoboda · slashing2 min
- 2:21 into the second periodVinny Prospal · boarding2 min
- 12:41 into the second periodDarius Kasparaitis · hooking2 min
- 13:09 into the second periodKevin Hatcher · high sticking2 min
- 17:32 into the second periodJoe Dziedzic · charging2 min
- 0:53 into the third periodEric Lindros · hooking2 min
- 5:54 into the third periodEric Lindros · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 7:09 into the third periodPetr Nedved · roughing2 min
- 9:50 into the third periodDainius Zubrus · roughing2 min
- 9:50 into the third periodIan Moran · roughing2 min
- 16:46 into the third periodPetr Nedved · charging2 min
- 17:44 into the third periodVinny Prospal · interference2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 3 | 3 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −4 | 1 | – |
| 66Mario LemieuxC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −4 | 3 | – |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 23Fredrik OlaussonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 9Greg JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Stu BarnesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Josef BeranekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 16Joe DziedzicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Eddie OlczykR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 33Alex HicksL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 93Petr NedvedC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 2Chris TamerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 6Neil WilkinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11Darius KasparaitisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Jason WoolleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 24Ian MoranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 28Craig MuniD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Ken WreggetG | L | 44 | 5 | .886 |
| 40Patrick LalimeG | 0 | 0 | – |
Philadelphia Flyers
| 17Rod Brind'AmourC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 6 | – |
| 88Eric LindrosC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 44Janne NiinimaaD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 7 | – |
| 10John LeClairL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 19Mikael RenbergR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 20Trent KlattR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 45Vinny ProspalL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 23Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 24Karl DykhuisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 37Eric DesjardinsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Pat FalloonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Dale HawerchukC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Shjon PodeinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 26John DruceR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Joel OttoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 6Chris TherienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 77Paul CoffeyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Ron HextallG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Garth SnowG | W | 18 | 3 | .833 |