Saturday, December 21, 1996
Rangers 3 at Canadiens 2
Final
Scoring
1st Period
-
6:07
Mark Recchi
(15)
Stephane Richer (10), Patrice Brisebois (10)
NYR 0 – 1 MTL
2nd Period
-
9:16
Ulf Samuelsson
(3)
Wayne Gretzky (35), Niklas Sundstrom (11)
NYR 1 – 1 MTL
-
15:28
Vincent Damphousse
(10)
PPG
Vladimir Malakhov (15), Martin Rucinsky (15)
NYR 1 – 2 MTL
-
18:33
Niklas Sundstrom
(13)
Wayne Gretzky (36), Alexander Karpovtsev (16)
NYR 2 – 2 MTL
3rd Period
No scoring
Overtime
-
0:42
Luc Robitaille
(14)
Wayne Gretzky (37), Niklas Sundstrom (12)
NYR 3 – 2 MTL