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Thursday, October 16, 1997 · San Jose Arena

Islanders 5 at Sharks 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 97OVR Ziggy Palffy Islanders First Star 3G · 1A · 4 SOG C 87OVR Robert Reichel Islanders Second Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG G 81OVR Tommy Salo Islanders Third Star 32 SV · .941

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:52 Ziggy Palffy (2) Bryan Smolinski (3), Robert Reichel (6) · Wrist NYI 1 – 0 SJS

2nd Period

  1. 3:26 Viktor Kozlov (4) Marty McSorley (2), Bill Houlder (2) · Wrist NYI 1 – 1 SJS
  2. 8:25 Ziggy Palffy (3) PPG Robert Reichel (7), Bryan Berard (4) · Backhand NYI 2 – 1 SJS
  3. 17:48 Bryan Smolinski (1) PPG Travis Green (2), Ziggy Palffy (3) · Slap NYI 3 – 1 SJS

3rd Period

  1. 1:18 Tony Granato (1) Jeff Friesen (2), Andrei Zyuzin (1) · Snap NYI 3 – 2 SJS
  2. 7:42 Robert Reichel (2) Unassisted · Wrist NYI 4 – 2 SJS
  3. 15:02 Ziggy Palffy (4) Kenny Jonsson (3) · Wrist NYI 5 – 2 SJS

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ziggy Palffy R 3 1 4 0 0 +3 22:24 3.63
Robert Reichel C 1 2 2 1 0 +2 18:19 2.30
Bryan Smolinski C 1 1 3 0 0 0 17:19 1.60
Bryan Berard D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 17:00 0.93
Kenny Jonsson D 0 1 1 0 1 +1 22:40 0.75
Bryan McCabe D 0 0 3 0 2 +1 26:03 0.48
Travis Green C 0 1 0 1 1 -1 15:53 0.38
Mike Hough L 0 0 2 1 0 0 10:07 0.15
Mariusz Czerkawski R 0 0 2 0 0 0 10:48 0.15
Scott Lachance D 0 0 0 1 2 0 20:46 0.15
Dennis Vaske D 0 0 0 0 3 0 19:11 0.15
Warren Luhning R 0 0 1 0 0 0 8:36 0.08
Todd Bertuzzi R 0 0 3 0 0 0 12:30 0.07
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 0 1 1 0 17:14 0.05
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 2 0 1 -1 15:50 -0.05
Tom Chorske R 0 0 0 2 0 -1 12:26 -0.15
Paul Kruse L 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:19 -0.15
Rich Pilon D 0 0 0 1 0 -1 14:27 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Salo W 34 32 2 .941 60:00 1.70

San Jose Sharks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Viktor Kozlov C 1 0 8 0 0 +1 15:08 1.45
Tony Granato R 1 0 5 0 0 -1 10:55 0.83
Marty McSorley D 0 1 2 2 0 +1 13:11 0.83
Jeff Friesen L 0 1 2 1 0 0 16:16 0.78
Andrei Zyuzin D 0 1 4 1 0 0 17:03 0.73
Bill Houlder D 0 1 0 0 0 -1 21:17 0.32
Patrick Marleau C 0 0 1 3 0 +1 17:11 0.22
Marcus Ragnarsson D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 16:18 0.22
Doug Bodger D 0 0 3 1 3 -1 21:57 0.02
Marco Sturm L 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:16 0.00
Stephane Matteau L 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:07 0.00
Todd Gill D 0 0 0 1 0 0 18:20 0.00
Ron Sutter C 0 0 1 0 0 0 12:15 -0.02
Mike Rathje D 0 0 1 1 1 -1 20:09 -0.02
Owen Nolan R 0 0 3 1 0 0 16:21 -0.08
Shean Donovan R 0 0 0 3 0 0 9:30 -0.15
Murray Craven L 0 0 1 1 0 -2 14:31 -0.28
Bernie Nicholls C 0 0 2 1 0 -2 12:56 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Vernon L 25 20 5 .800 59:57 -1.75