Canada 4-3 United States  (OT)
World Cup Of Hockey Final, Game 1
CoreStates Center, Philadelphia 
Tuesday, September 10, 1996

BOXSCORE
1st Period
05:36 –  PEN – Damphousse, slashing
07:56 –  PEN – Weight, slashing
15:01 –  PEN – Guerin, holding
16:04 –  PEN – Coffey, roughing
16:04 –  PEN – Deadmarsh, roughing
16:04 –  PEN – Shanahan, roughing
16:04 –  PEN – Chelios, slashing
16:50 –  PP GOAL – Lindros (Gretzky, Blake)
19:23 –  PEN – Niedermayer, tripping

2nd Period
22:03 –  GOAL – D. Hatcher (LeClair, Smolinski)
24:06 –  PEN – Sakic, holding
25:17 –  PEN – Niedermayer, roughing
25:17 –  PEN – Tkachuk, roughing
25:55 –  PEN – Suter, roughing
26:58 –  PEN – Sakic, holding
31:24 –  PEN – team, too many players
33:51 –  GOAL – D. Hatcher (Amonte, Leetch)
39:21 –  GOAL – Lemieux (Messier, Graves)

3rd Period
46:28 –  PEN – Foote, roughing
46:28 –  PEN – Schneider, roughing
49:58 –  GOAL – Fleury (Brind’Amour)
59:53 –  EA GOAL – LeClair (Leetch, Otto)

Overtime
64:25 –  PEN – Weight, high sticking
70:37 –  GOAL – Yzerman (Brind’Amour, Fleury)

GOALTENDERS
W:  Joseph (23-26)
L:  Richter (31-35)

SHOTS ON GOAL
 11+8+9+7 = 35
 5+11+9+1 = 26

ROSTERS
 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, Joe Sakic, Brendan Shanahan, Steve Yzerman.
 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, Pat LaFontaine, John LeClair, Mike Modano, Joel Otto, Bryan Smolinski, Keith Tkachuk, Doug Weight, Scott Young.

CANADA	vs.	UNITED STATES (C)
new champion (previous 08/31/1996)	Last Title	reign ends (since 08/31/1996)
217	All-Time Wins	44
24 wins	Head-To-Head (+ 3 ties)	4 wins
First IHLC Meeting (CAN vs. USA)  CAN 2-0 USA  – 04/25/1920 – OG – Antwerp
Previous IHLC Meeting (CAN vs. USA)  USA 5-3 CAN  – 08/31/1996 – WCH – Philadelphia
Last IHLC Game  USA 5-2 RUS  – 09/08/1996 – WCH – Ottawa
Next IHLC Game  USA 5-2 CAN  – 09/12/1996 – WCH – Montréal

Photo Credit: MSN Sports – IIHF – HHOF – IOC