Monday, March 17, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
First Period -- 1, Phoenix, Smyth 4 (Marinucci) 0:42. 2, Phoenix, Smyth 5 (Knipscheer, Modry) 19:36 (pp). Penalties: Tiley, Phoenix (holding) 1:13; Bast, Las Vegas (fighting) 11:00; Schmidt, Phoenix (fighting) 11:00; Bast, Las Vegas (interference) 17:32; Yerkovich, Las Vegas (tripping) 18:57.
Second Period -- 3, Phoenix, Marinucci 24 (Smyth) 1:57. 4, Las Vegas, Day 6 (Huffman, Bancroft) 3:49 (pp). 5, Las Vegas, Quinney 27 (Bancroft) 4:37. 6, Las Vegas, Gendron 36 (Bashkatov, Yerkovich) 5:49. Penalties: Gillingham, Phoenix (roughing) 3:39; Trombley, Las Vegas (elbowing) 9:51; Day, Las Vegas (interference) 14:21.
Third Period -- 7, Las Vegas, Gendron 37 (Yerkovich) 1:38. 8, Las Vegas, Day 7 (Huffman, Lefebvre) 10:42. 9, Las Vegas, Gendron 38 (Bashkatov) 16:31. 10, Phoenix, McRae 25 (Slaney) 16:46. 11, Las Vegas, Day 8 (Lefebvre, Quinney) 16:58. Penalties: Batyrshin, Phoenix (high-sticking) 5:33; Simon, Las Vegas (roughing) 19:39; Crowley (roughing) 19:39.
Shots on goal -- Las Vegas 9-11-13--33; Phoenix 12-9-5--26.
Power plays -- Las Vegas 1 of 3; Phoenix 1 of 4.
Goalies -- Las Vegas, Naumov 1-0-0 (26 shots, 22 saves); Phoenix, Storr 14-21-4 (33, 26).
Attendance -- 4,809 (13,730).
Referee -- Kelly Sutherland. Linesmen -- Pete Messana and Dan Sass.
Three stars -- 1, Las Vegas RW Martin Gendron; 2, Las Vegas C Joe Day; 3, Phoenix Brad Smyth.
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