Team Russia vs Team USA
· Monday, September 2, 1996 · Madison Square Garden
TeamRussiaAway
2–5
Final34–32
TeamUSAHome
Game summary
The Team USA beat the Team Russia 5–2 on Monday, September 2, 1996 at Madison Square Garden. The Russia outshot the USA 34–32.
Goals came from Adam Deadmarsh, John LeClair, Keith Tkachuk, Pat LaFontaine, Oleg Tverdovsky, Doug Weight and Andrei Kovalenko.
Mike Richter made 0 saves on 34 shots for the win; Nikolai Khabibulin stopped 0 of 22.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RUS | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 34 |
| USA | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 32 |
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Adam Deadmarsh (1)Pat LaFontaine (1), Brian Leetch (1)0–100:26 USA
John LeClair (2)Pat LaFontaine (2), Mike Modano (1)0–207:08 USA
2nd period
Keith Tkachuk (1)Bill Guerin (1), Mike Modano (2)0–304:36 USA
Pat LaFontaine (1)Chris Chelios (2)0–409:32 USA · 
Oleg Tverdovsky (1)Igor Larionov (2), Vyacheslav Kozlov (1)1–412:33 RUS
Doug Weight (2)Brett Hull (3), Kevin Hatcher (1)1–513:03 USA
3rd period
Andrei Kovalenko (1)Alexei Zhamnov (2), Andrei Nikolishin (2)2–519:32 RUS
Team stats
RUSUSA
3432
0%0%
0/50/5
2422
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:58 into the first periodAlex Kovalev · elbowing2 min
- 4:58 into the first periodAlex Kovalev · slashing2 min
- 4:58 into the first periodBill Guerin · slashing2 min
- 7:35 into the first periodTony Amonte · hooking2 min
- 10:47 into the first periodAlexei Yashin · hooking obstruction2 min
- 14:14 into the first periodVyacheslav Kozlov · interference obstruction2 min
- 16:44 into the first periodMathieu Schneider · high sticking2 min
- 8:04 into the second periodDarius Kasparaitis · roughing2 min
- 8:04 into the second periodKeith Tkachuk · roughing2 min
- 8:04 into the second periodMathieu Schneider · charging2 min
- 16:27 into the second periodScott Young · boarding2 min
- 17:31 into the second periodValeri Zelepukin · elbowing2 min
- 0:48 into the third periodSergei Gonchar · holding2 min
- 4:44 into the third periodVladimir Malakhov · slashing2 min
- 4:44 into the third periodAdam Deadmarsh · slashing2 min
- 7:29 into the third periodAlexei Zhamnov · roughing2 min
- 7:29 into the third periodAndrei Nikolishin · roughing2 min
- 7:29 into the third periodBill Guerin · roughing2 min
- 7:29 into the third periodDerian Hatcher · roughing2 min
- 9:30 into the third periodGary Suter · holding2 min
- 14:43 into the third periodVyacheslav Kozlov · slashing2 min
- 14:43 into the third periodDerian Hatcher · cross checking2 min
- 16:18 into the third periodDarius Kasparaitis · slashing2 min
Team Russia
| 8Igor LarionovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Alexei ZhamnovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 33Andrei NikolishinL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 51Andrei KovalenkoR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Oleg TverdovskyD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 3Sergei NemchinovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 16Valeri ZelepukinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 19Alexei YashinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 89Alexander MogilnyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 91Sergei FedorovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 11Darius KasparaitisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26Dmitry YushkevichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 38Vladimir MalakhovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 56Sergei ZubovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Andrei TrefilovG | 10 | 0 | 1.000 | |
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | L | 22 | 5 | .773 |
Team USA
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 9Mike ModanoC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 10John LeClairL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 12Bill GuerinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 15Brett HullR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 17Keith TkachukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 18Adam DeadmarshC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 19Doug WeightC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 7Chris CheliosD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 8Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Tony AmonteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Scott YoungR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 29Joel OttoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Derian HatcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 5Mathieu SchneiderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Gary SuterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Guy HebertG | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| 35Mike RichterG | W | 34 | 2 | .941 |