Thunder-Aeoros Box Score

Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

Thunder 6,

Aeros 4

First Period -- 1, Las Vegas, Lefebvre 3 (Quinney, Dahlquist) 8:39. 2, Las Vegas, Zholtok 4 (Gretzky) 16:05 (pp). Penalties: Loewen, Las Vegas (holding) 1:22; Huffman, Las Vegas (hooking) 9:35; Donnelly, Houston (hooking) 15:59.

Second Period -- 3, Houston, Shuchuk (Lamb, Freer) 3:17. 4, Las Vegas, Gretzky 1 (Dahl, Lefebvre) 6:53 (pp). 5, Houston, Baseggio 1 (Larsoe, Jaques) 18:55. Penalties: Valicevic, Houston (tripping) 5:15; Baseggio, Houston (tripping) 7:16; Simon, Las Vegas (cross checking) 10:20; Larose, Houston (interference) 11:11; Kupaks, Las Vegas (interference) 12:22.

Third Period -- 6, Las Vegas, Moore 1 (Dahlquist, Simon) 6:41. 7, Las Vegas, Gendron 5 (Serowik, Gretzky) 9:45. 8, Las Vegas, Gretzky 2 (Huffman, Bashkatov) 9:54. 9, Houston, May 1 (Straub, Freer) 15:11 (pp). 10, Houston, Townshend 5 (Baseggio, Jaques) 18:58. Penalties: Yerkovich, Las Vegas (high sticking) 11:36; Loewen, Las Vegas (fighting) 11:36; Sears, Houston (fighting) 11:36; Demitra, Las Vegas (hooking) 13:17; Simon, Las Vegas (fighting, misconduct) 16:39; Morissette, Houston (fighting, misconduct) 16:39; Loewen, Las Vegas (roughing) 17:17; Valicevic, Houston (slashing) 17:17.

Shots on goal -- Houston 9-10-11--30; Las Vegas 12-10-9--31.

Power plays -- Houston 1 for 6; Las Vegas 2 for 4.

Goalies -- Houston, Chabot 1-3-1 (31 shots, 25 saves); Las Vegas, Duffus 4-2-0 (30, 26).

Attendance -- 5,045.

Referee -- Brad Meier. Linesmen -- Gerry Collins and Jon Constantine.

Three stars -- 1, Las Vegas C Brent Gretzky; 2, Las Vegas D Kerry Huffman; 3, Las Vegas RW Martin Gendron.