Pittsburgh Penguins vs New York Rangers 1-8, Oct 16, 1996: Box Score | AskScores

Pittsburgh Penguins

1

New York Rangers

8

Final · Madison Square Garden

Score by period
Team	1	2	3	T
PIT	1	0	0	1
NYR	2	4	2	8

The New York Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 8-1 on Oct 16, 1996 at Madison Square Garden.

Top performers

Petr Nedved
Petr Nedved had 1 goal for the Penguins.
Tom Barrasso
Tom Barrasso made 26 saves on 31 shots for the Penguins.
Alex Kovalev
Alex Kovalev had 3 goals for the Rangers.
Mike Richter
Mike Richter made 29 saves on 30 shots for the Rangers.

Before and after

Penguins · 1996-97 season · Previous Oct 12, 1996: OTT 2, PIT 3 · Next Oct 17, 1996: PIT 1, BUF 4
Rangers · 1996-97 season · Previous Oct 14, 1996: CGY 4, NYR 5 · Next Oct 18, 1996: STL 1, NYR 2

Other Penguins vs Rangers games

Other Pittsburgh Penguins vs New York Rangers games

Mar 24, 1997	PIT at NYR	0-3	Regular
Jan 25, 1997	NYR at PIT	7-4	Regular
Nov 16, 1996	NYR at PIT	8-3	Regular
Feb 28, 2026	PIT at NYR	2-3	Regular
Jan 31, 2026	NYR at PIT	5-6	Regular
Oct 11, 2025	NYR at PIT	6-1	Regular

Pittsburgh Penguins box score

Skaters

Pittsburgh Penguins skaters, Oct 16, 1996

Ron Francis	0	1	1	-3	4	0	0:00
Petr Nedved	1	0	1	-3	6	0	0:00
Dave Roche	0	1	1	-1	3	0	0:00
Jaromir Jagr	0	0	0	-3	1	0	0:00
Mario Lemieux	0	0	0	-2	4	0	0:00
Kevin Hatcher	0	0	0	-3	2	2	0:00
Jean-Jacques Daigneault	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0:00
Joe Mullen	0	0	0	0	2	0	0:00
Craig Muni	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0:00
Glen Murray	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0:00
Dan Quinn	0	0	0	0	2	0	0:00
Tyler Wright	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0:00
Chris Tamer	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0:00
Francois Leroux	0	0	0	-1	0	2	0:00
Dmitri Mironov	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0:00
Shawn Antoski	0	0	0	0	0	0	0:00
Ed Patterson	0	0	0	0	1	2	0:00
Alex Stojanov	0	0	0	0	0	5	0:00
Team	1	2	3	-25	30	11

What the columns mean: G · A · PTS · +/- · PIM

Goalies

Pittsburgh Penguins goalies, Oct 16, 1996

Tom Barrasso	31	26	5	.839	31:13
Ken Wregget	17	14	3	.824	28:47
Team	48	40	8	1.663

What the columns mean: SA · SV · GA · SV%

New York Rangers box score

Skaters

New York Rangers skaters, Oct 16, 1996

Alex Kovalev	3	0	3	2	6	4	0:00
Alexander Karpovtsev	0	3	3	2	1	0	0:00
Mark Messier	0	2	2	2	3	0	0:00
Wayne Gretzky	0	2	2	2	6	0	0:00
Luc Robitaille	0	2	2	1	2	2	0:00
Patrick Flatley	0	2	2	1	3	0	0:00
Sergei Nemchinov	1	1	2	1	4	0	0:00
Niklas Sundstrom	2	0	2	2	3	0	0:00
Brian Leetch	0	1	1	2	5	0	0:00
Bruce Driver	0	1	1	1	2	0	0:00
Jeff Beukeboom	0	1	1	2	1	0	0:00
Bill Berg	0	1	1	1	1	0	0:00
Daniel Goneau	1	0	1	1	4	0	0:00
Christian Dube	1	0	1	0	3	0	0:00
Adam Graves	0	0	0	2	1	0	0:00
Ulf Samuelsson	0	0	0	2	1	0	0:00
Darren Langdon	0	0	0	0	1	7	0:00
Jay More	0	0	0	1	1	0	0:00
Team	8	16	24	25	48	13

What the columns mean: G · A · PTS · +/- · PIM

Goalies

New York Rangers goalies, Oct 16, 1996
Player	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
Mike Richter	30	29	1	.967	60:00

What the columns mean: SA · SV · GA · SV%