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Friday, October 3, 1997 · Madison Square Garden

Islanders 2 at Rangers 2

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 81OVR Tommy Salo Islanders First Star 29 SV · .935 R 65OVR Todd Bertuzzi Canucks Second Star 1G · 3 SOG G 73OVR Mike Richter Rangers Third Star 27 SV · .931

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:53 Bryan Berard (1) PPG Robert Reichel (1), Ziggy Palffy (1) · Snap NYI 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 10:09 Adam Graves (1) PPG Alex Kovalev (1), Bruce Driver (1) · Backhand NYI 1 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 13:23 Todd Bertuzzi (1) Travis Green (1), Tom Chorske (1) · Snap NYI 2 – 1 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 11:15 Pat LaFontaine (1) PPG Alexander Karpovtsev (1) · Tip-in NYI 2 – 2 NYR

Overtime

No scoring

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Todd Bertuzzi R 1 0 3 2 0 +1 15:31 1.23
Bryan Berard D 1 0 6 1 2 0 20:45 1.15
Travis Green C 0 1 3 2 0 +1 20:50 1.00
Robert Reichel C 0 1 2 0 0 0 22:08 0.98
Tom Chorske R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 21:46 0.90
Ziggy Palffy R 0 1 4 1 0 0 21:39 0.88
Dennis Vaske D 0 0 3 2 2 +1 21:07 0.48
Mike Hough L 0 0 2 2 1 0 15:38 0.20
Bryan McCabe D 0 0 0 1 2 +1 23:09 0.20
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 0 2 0 0 9:07 0.10
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 0 1 0 0 17:37 0.10
Bryan Smolinski C 0 0 2 2 0 0 20:34 0.05
Kenny Jonsson D 0 0 1 1 3 0 25:19 -0.02
Mariusz Czerkawski R 0 0 1 2 0 0 10:25 -0.03
Scott Lachance D 0 0 1 2 1 0 20:12 -0.08
Paul Kruse L 0 0 0 1 0 0 4:39 -0.15
Rich Pilon D 0 0 0 3 1 0 21:04 -0.20
Ken Belanger L 0 0 0 2 0 0 3:24 -0.33
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Salo T 31 29 2 .935 65:00 1.40

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pat LaFontaine C 1 0 3 1 0 -1 13:54 1.03
Bruce Driver D 0 1 3 0 1 0 22:23 1.00
Adam Graves L 1 0 4 2 0 -1 16:08 0.90
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 1 1 5 3 0 26:45 0.90
Alex Kovalev R 0 1 3 1 0 -1 19:32 0.65
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 0 1 2 1 0 20:53 0.53
Mike Keane R 0 0 2 1 2 0 18:33 0.35
Brian Leetch D 0 0 3 1 4 -1 18:02 0.32
Brian Skrudland C 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:54 0.25
Wayne Gretzky C 0 0 7 0 0 0 25:49 0.23
Bill Berg L 0 0 1 0 1 0 15:03 0.02
Mike Eastwood C 0 0 0 1 1 0 7:09 0.00
Kevin Stevens L 0 0 2 9 0 0 21:01 -0.10
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:31 -0.10
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 1 3 2 -1 18:31 -0.12
Marc Savard C 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:17 -0.20
Jeff Finley D 0 0 0 2 1 0 18:05 -0.20
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3:41 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter T 29 27 2 .931 65:00 1.20