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Wednesday, October 29, 1997 · Centre Molson

Islanders 5 at Canadiens 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 66OVR Bryan Berard Islanders First Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG R 95OVR Mark Recchi Canadiens Second Star 2G · 3 SOG R 97OVR Ziggy Palffy Islanders Third Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:54 Travis Green (3) PPG Robert Reichel (10), Bryan Berard (5) · Tip-in NYI 1 – 0 MTL
  2. 16:05 Mark Recchi (6) Saku Koivu (10), Shayne Corson (9) · Snap NYI 1 – 1 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 3:51 Ziggy Palffy (6) PPG Bryan McCabe (1), Bryan Berard (6) · Wrist NYI 2 – 1 MTL
  2. 7:45 Bryan Smolinski (2) Mariusz Czerkawski (3), Scott Lachance (2) · Wrist NYI 3 – 1 MTL
  3. 14:46 Bryan Berard (6) PPG Ziggy Palffy (5), Robert Reichel (11) · Slap NYI 4 – 1 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 1:29 Mike Hough (1) Claude Lapointe (1), Tom Chorske (3) · Wrist NYI 5 – 1 MTL
  2. 14:47 Mark Recchi (7) Vincent Damphousse (4), Martin Rucinsky (5) · Tip-in NYI 5 – 2 MTL

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bryan Berard D 1 2 2 1 1 0 18:17 2.20
Ziggy Palffy R 1 1 1 2 1 0 18:48 1.60
Robert Reichel C 0 2 4 1 0 0 16:56 1.40
Mike Hough L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 11:47 1.03
Claude Lapointe C 0 1 4 4 1 0 19:50 0.93
Tom Chorske R 0 1 1 1 0 +1 12:49 0.90
Bryan Smolinski C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 18:09 0.90
Travis Green C 1 0 1 1 0 0 15:27 0.83
Mariusz Czerkawski R 0 1 3 1 0 0 13:07 0.75
Bryan McCabe D 0 1 2 1 0 0 23:20 0.58
Scott Lachance D 0 1 0 2 2 0 18:14 0.58
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 0 1 4 0 18:18 0.25
Kenny Jonsson D 0 0 0 1 0 +1 21:11 0.15
Rich Pilon D 0 0 2 4 1 0 15:57 0.05
Dennis Vaske D 0 0 1 3 2 -1 21:38 -0.02
Warren Luhning R 0 0 0 1 0 -1 9:15 -0.15
Paul Kruse L 0 0 2 0 2 -2 7:15 -0.35
Ken Belanger L 0 0 0 0 0 0 3:31 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Eric Fichaud W 23 21 2 .913 60:00 0.60

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mark Recchi R 2 0 3 0 0 +2 18:27 1.98
Shayne Corson L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 17:53 0.83
Vincent Damphousse C 0 1 2 0 0 0 19:31 0.73
Martin Rucinsky L 0 1 3 0 0 0 19:25 0.55
Saku Koivu C 0 1 0 1 0 0 15:05 0.42
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 3 0 1 +1 24:16 0.38
Valeri Bure R 0 0 5 1 1 0 16:16 0.23
Craig Rivet D 0 0 0 2 1 +1 7:34 0.20
Brett Clark D 0 0 0 1 0 +1 16:01 0.10
Scott Thornton L 0 0 0 1 1 0 11:39 0.00
Peter Popovic D 0 0 0 3 2 -1 19:36 -0.05
Brian Savage L 0 0 1 1 0 -1 11:45 -0.08
Benoit Brunet L 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:56 -0.13
Dave Manson D 0 0 3 2 1 0 23:14 -0.13
Darcy Tucker R 0 0 0 2 0 0 9:51 -0.15
Stephane Richer R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 14:03 -0.22
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 1 2 2 -2 21:30 -0.22
Turner Stevenson R 0 0 0 0 1 0 6:32 -0.33
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault L 26 21 5 .808 59:50 -1.65