Team Slovakia vs Team Russia
· Saturday, August 31, 1996 · Centre Molson
TeamSlovakiaAway
4–7
Final26–27
TeamRussiaHome
Game summary
The Team Russia beat the Team Slovakia 7–4 on Saturday, August 31, 1996 at Centre Molson. The Russia outshot the Slovakia 27–26.
Sergei Fedorov scored twice and Alexander Mogilny scored twice. Jergus Baca, Peter Bondra, Ziggy Palffy, Vyacheslav Kozlov, Zdeno Ciger, Sergei Gonchar and Sergei Nemchinov also scored.
Andrei Trefilov made 0 saves on 26 shots for the win; Jaromir Dragan stopped 0 of 27.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SVK | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 26 |
| RUS | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 27 |
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Jergus Baca (1)Robert Svehla (1), Ziggy Palffy (1)1–004:33 SVK · 
Sergei Fedorov (2)Sergei Gonchar (1), Darius Kasparaitis (2)1–109:37 RUS · 
Peter Bondra (1)Ivan Droppa (1)2–111:08 SVK
Alexander Mogilny (1)Alexei Zhitnik (1), Sergei Fedorov (1)2–212:14 RUS- Alexander Mogilny (2)Sergei Fedorov (2), Viacheslav Fetisov (2)2–318:31 RUS
2nd period
Ziggy Palffy (1)Unassisted3–307:52 SVK
Vyacheslav Kozlov (1)Igor Larionov (1), Andrei Trefilov (1)3–412:42 RUS · - Sergei Fedorov (3)Unassisted3–519:58 RUS
3rd period
Zdeno Ciger (1)Unassisted4–501:27 SVK
Sergei Gonchar (1)Alexander Mogilny (1), Sergei Nemchinov (1)4–605:28 RUS · 
Sergei Nemchinov (1)Alexander Mogilny (2), Sergei Gonchar (2)4–715:26 RUS
Team stats
SVKRUS
2627
0%0%
1/53/5
1616
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:21 into the first periodValeri Bure · cross checking2 min
- 8:55 into the first periodIvan Droppa · interference2 min
- 17:49 into the first periodAlexei Zhitnik · holding2 min
- 17:57 into the first periodZdeno Ciger · high sticking2 min
- 1:44 into the second periodAlexei Yashin · elbowing2 min
- 1:44 into the second periodPavol Demitra · roughing2 min
- 11:23 into the second periodLubomir Sekeras · slashing2 min
- 12:42 into the second periodAlexei Zhamnov · roughing2 min
- 12:42 into the second periodRobert Svehla · roughing2 min
- 15:04 into the second periodMarian Smerciak · interference obstruction2 min
- 4:15 into the third periodMarian Smerciak · tripping2 min
- 7:12 into the third periodVyacheslav Kozlov · interference2 min
- 7:49 into the third periodRobert Svehla · high sticking2 min
- 7:49 into the third periodAlexei Zhamnov · roughing2 min
- 12:18 into the third periodVyacheslav Kozlov · roughing2 min
- 19:31 into the third periodAndrei Kovalenko · hooking2 min
Team Slovakia
| 24Ziggy PalffyR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 12Peter BondraR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 20Zdeno CigerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 2Jergus BacaD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 3Ivan DroppaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Robert SvehlaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 9Vlastimil PlavuchaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Otto HascakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Peter BartosR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Jozef StumpelR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Miroslav SatanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 22Richard ZednikL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 23Lubomir RybovicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Pavol DemitraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Marian SmerciakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 7Lubomir SekerasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 27Jan VarholikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Jaromir DraganG | L | 27 | 7 | .741 |
| 35Roman MegaG | 0 | 0 | .000 |
Team Russia
| 89Alexander MogilnyR | 2 | 2 | 4 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 91Sergei FedorovC | 2 | 2 | 4 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 3Sergei NemchinovC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 8Igor LarionovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 2Viacheslav FetisovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 11Darius KasparaitisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 10Alexei ZhamnovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Valeri BureR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 19Alexei YashinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Sergei BerezinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 51Andrei KovalenkoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 7Oleg TverdovskyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Alexander KarpovtsevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Dmitry YushkevichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Andrei TrefilovG | W | 26 | 4 | .846 |
| 31Mikhail ShtalenkovG | 0 | 0 | .000 |