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Friday, December 5, 1997 · Madison Square Garden

Flyers 4 at Rangers 4

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 99OVR John LeClair Flyers First Star 2G · 7 SOG D 68OVR Brian Leetch Rangers Second Star 2G · 6 SOG G 51OVR Jason Muzzatti Sharks Third Star 25 SV · .962

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:39 Rod Brind'Amour (12) Trent Klatt (6), Petr Svoboda (3) PHI 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 1:57 Tim Sweeney (7) Doug Lidster (3) PHI 1 – 1 NYR
  3. 14:27 John LeClair (21) Unassisted · Wrist PHI 2 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 6:17 Vinny Prospal (4) PPG Paul Coffey (10), Janne Niinimaa (11) PHI 3 – 1 NYR
  2. 8:36 John LeClair (22) Dainius Zubrus (15), Chris Gratton (13) · Snap PHI 4 – 1 NYR
  3. 10:21 Brian Skrudland (1) Mike Keane (6), Ulf Samuelsson (4) · Wrist PHI 4 – 2 NYR
  4. 12:22 Brian Leetch (5) PPG Vladimir Vorobiev (1), Pat LaFontaine (19) PHI 4 – 3 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 3:07 Brian Leetch (6) PPG Wayne Gretzky (19), Niklas Sundstrom (14) PHI 4 – 4 NYR

Overtime

No scoring

Philadelphia Flyers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
John LeClair L 2 0 7 2 0 +1 21:29 1.98
Dainius Zubrus C 0 1 3 2 0 +1 19:23 1.00
Chris Gratton C 0 1 2 2 1 +1 19:51 0.98
Paul Coffey D 0 1 4 1 2 -1 19:41 0.88
Janne Niinimaa D 0 1 4 1 1 -1 19:28 0.83
Vinny Prospal L 1 0 1 0 0 -1 6:34 0.73
Trent Klatt R 0 1 1 0 1 0 20:52 0.70
Eric Desjardins D 0 0 1 2 2 +3 23:18 0.63
Chris Therien D 0 0 3 4 2 +3 23:02 0.58
Petr Svoboda D 0 1 0 0 2 -1 20:23 0.58
Shjon Podein L 0 0 5 1 1 0 15:48 0.48
Rod Brind'Amour C 1 0 5 2 1 +1 20:01 0.18
Joel Otto C 0 0 2 0 1 0 15:40 0.05
Pat Falloon R 0 0 0 0 0 0 3:42 0.00
Colin Forbes L 0 0 1 2 0 0 14:14 -0.03
Luke Richardson D 0 0 1 4 0 -1 20:46 -0.08
Eric Lindros C 0 0 2 2 0 0 24:39 -0.10
Dan Kordic L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:42 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Garth Snow T 31 27 4 .871 64:59 -0.30

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brian Leetch D 2 0 6 0 1 0 17:49 1.90
Brian Skrudland C 1 0 3 2 2 +1 14:28 1.23
Wayne Gretzky C 0 1 2 0 1 0 23:07 1.03
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 1 3 3 1 0 21:07 0.80
Mike Keane R 0 1 2 4 0 0 20:03 0.78
Pat LaFontaine C 0 1 3 0 1 -1 19:10 0.75
Tim Sweeney R 1 0 3 0 0 -1 10:28 0.73
Doug Lidster D 0 1 0 1 3 0 9:48 0.73
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 1 1 3 0 0 12:04 0.70
Vladimir Vorobiev R 0 1 2 0 1 -1 19:25 0.68
Alex Kovalev R 0 0 3 3 2 0 21:25 0.28
Kevin Stevens L 0 0 0 3 0 0 12:13 0.05
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 0 1 5 2 0 22:42 0.02
Johan Lindbom L 0 0 0 4 1 0 14:46 -0.05
Adam Graves L 0 0 2 9 0 -1 23:31 -0.10
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 3 0 -1 7:53 -0.15
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 5 2 -1 24:59 -0.25
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:21 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jason Muzzatti T 26 25 1 .962 38:43 1.75
Mike Richter — 16 13 3 .812 26:17 -0.95