United States 5-3 Canada 
World Cup Of Hockey Group Round
CoreStates Center, Philadelphia 
Saturday, August 31, 1996

BOXSCORE
1st Period
00:20 –  PEN – Guerin, fighting major
00:20 –  PEN – Tkachuk, fighting major + 10 min. misconduct
00:20 –  PEN – Primeau, instigating + fighting major + 10 min. misconduct
00:20 –  PEN – Lemieux, fighting major + 10 min.  misconduct
05:01 –  GOAL – LeClair (Amonte, Smolinski)
06:46 –  PEN – Foote, roughing
08:30 –  PEN – LeClair, boarding
09:53 –  PP GOAL – Gretzky (Niedermayer, Lindros)
18:38 –  GOAL – Messier (Stevens, Desjardins)

2nd Period
23:37 –  GOAL – Weight (Suter, Hull)
28:46 –  PEN – Weight, hooking
30:48 –  GOAL – Young (Hull)
31:41 –  PEN – Leetch, hooking
39:02 –  PEN – D. Hatcher, elbowing
39:02 –  PEN – Primeau, roughing
39:29 –  PEN – Gretzky, hooking

3rd Period
40:25 –  PP GOAL – Hull (Chelios)
48:37 –  PEN – Chelios, roughing
49:48 –  PEN – Damphousse, holding
52:49 –  PEN – Fleury, high sticking
58:57 –  GOAL – Gretzky (Coffey, Fleury)
59:35 –  EN GOAL – Hull (Weight)

GOALTENDERS
W:  Richter (23-26)
L:  Brodeur (21-26)

SHOTS ON GOAL
 3+10+13 = 26
 10+9+7 = 26

ROSTERS
 Goaltenders: Guy Hebert, Mike Richter. Defence: Chris Chelios, Derian Hatcher, Kevin Hatcher, Brian Leetch (C), Mathieu Schneider, Gary Suter. Forwards: Tony Amonte, Adam Deadmarsh, Bill Guerin, Brett Hull, Steve Konawalchuk, John LeClair, Mike Modano, Joel Otto, Bryan Smolinski, Keith Tkachuk, Doug Weight, Scott Young.
 Goaltenders: Martin Brodeur, Curtis Joseph. Defence: Rob Blake, Paul Coffey, Éric Desjardins, Adam Foote, Scott Niedermayer, Scott Stevens. Forwards: Rod Brind’Amour, Vincent Damphousse, Theoren Fleury, Adam Graves, Wayne Gretzky (C), Claude Lemieux, Trevor Linden, Eric Lindros, Mark Messier, Keith Primeau, Joe Sakic, Pat Verbeek.

UNITED STATES	vs.	CANADA (C)
new champion (previous 05/03/1995)	Last Title	reign ends (since 08/29/1996)
41	All-Time Wins	216
4 wins	Head-To-Head (+ 3 ties)	23 wins
First IHLC Meeting (USA vs. CAN)  CAN 2-0 USA  – 04/25/1920 – OG – Antwerp
Previous IHLC Meeting (USA vs. CAN)  CAN 4-1 USA  – 05/03/1995 – WC – Stockholm
Last IHLC Game  CAN 5-3 RUS  – 08/29/1996 – WCH – Vancouver
Next IHLC Game  USA 5-2 RUS  – 09/02/1996 – WCH – New York

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