Box Score: Thunder 6, Blades 5 (SO)

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.

First Period -- 1, Las Vegas, Gendron 27 (Lefebvre) 1:47. 2, Las Vegas, Quinney (Loewen) 6:28 (sh). 3, Kansas City, Jacques 1 (Purves) 9:56 (sh). 4, Kansas City, Kimble 4 (Sylvester, Cirone) 13:41. Penalties: Yerkovich, Las Vegas (cross-checking) 4:58; Stacey, Kansas City (tripping) 7:07; Bruce, Kansas City (slashing) 8:38; Voronov, Las Vegas (tripping) 15:42.

Second Period -- 5, Kansas City, Sylvester 10 (Palmer, Cirone) 13:17. 6, Kansas City, Bruce 30 (Craigwell, Purves) 17:29. Penalties: Trombley, Las Vegas (fighting) 7:18; Kimble, Kansas City (fighting) 7:18; Voronov, Las Vegas (cross-checking) 19:48.

Third Period -- 7, Las Vegas, Gendron 28 (Bancroft) 4:12. 8, Kansas City, Sylvester 11 (Cirone) 4:36. 9, Las Vegas, Quinney 19 (St. Jacques) (pp) 7:33.10, Las Vegas, Bashkirov 1 (Bashkatov, Gendron) 15:11 (pp). Penalties: Purves, Kansas City (boarding) 5:47; Kimble, Kansas City (hooking) 14:28; Yerkovich, Las Vegas (roughing) 16:45; Emmons, Kansas City (roughing) 16:45.

Shootout -- Kansas City (2 of 5) Emmons miss, Purves miss, Bruce score, Madill score, Cirone miss; Las Vegas (3 of 5) Lefebvre score, Bashkatov miss, Gendron score, St. Jacques miss, Bashkirov score.

Shots on goal -- Kansas City 15-19-8--42; Las Vegas 7-8-11--26.

Power plays -- Kansas City 0 of 3; Las Vegas 2 of 4.

Goalies -- Kansas City, Dyck 13-9-6 (26 shots, 21 saves); Las Vegas, Duffus 23-13-4 (42 ,37).

Attendance -- 5,829 (12,347).

Referee -- Dan O'Halloran. Linesmen -- Richard Frederick and Jon Constantine.

Three stars -- 1, Las Vegas LW Ken Quinney; 2, Las Vegas RW Martin Gendron; 3, Kansas City RW Dean Sylvester.