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Friday, December 12, 1997 · Madison Square Garden

Panthers 4 at Rangers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 76OVR Kevin Stevens Rangers First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG C 91OVR Pat LaFontaine Rangers Second Star 3A · 1 SOG R 83OVR Radek Dvorak Panthers Third Star 2G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:38 Bruce Driver (3) Kevin Stevens (11), Pat LaFontaine (22) · Wrist FLA 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 13:37 Radek Dvorak (1) SHG Chris Wells (5) · Backhand FLA 1 – 1 NYR
  3. 18:31 Radek Dvorak (2) SHG Steve Washburn (4) · Backhand FLA 2 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 3:22 David Nemirovsky (6) Ray Whitney (14), Chris Wells (6) · Tip-in FLA 3 – 1 NYR
  2. 7:48 Kevin Stevens (7) Pat LaFontaine (23) · Tip-in FLA 3 – 2 NYR
  3. 17:27 Terry Carkner (1) Ryan Johnson (2) · Slap FLA 4 – 2 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 4:41 Tim Sweeney (8) Pat LaFontaine (24), Kevin Stevens (12) FLA 4 – 3 NYR

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Radek Dvorak R 2 0 3 1 1 0 15:31 1.73
Terry Carkner D 1 0 2 1 2 +2 21:35 1.35
Chris Wells C 0 2 0 1 1 +2 13:17 1.20
David Nemirovsky R 1 0 3 0 0 +1 10:57 1.13
Steve Washburn C 0 1 2 0 1 +1 16:13 0.98
Ray Whitney L 0 1 0 0 1 +1 12:31 0.88
Ryan Johnson C 0 1 1 0 0 0 10:42 0.70
Gord Murphy D 0 0 1 2 4 +1 24:28 0.43
Scott Mellanby R 0 0 3 3 0 0 17:36 0.18
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 0 1 3 0 0 14:19 0.13
Bill Lindsay L 0 0 1 0 0 0 13:59 0.08
Ray Sheppard R 0 0 2 0 0 0 17:23 0.05
Ed Jovanovski D 0 0 1 6 3 -1 21:35 0.03
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 2 0 0 0 17:11 0.00
Robert Svehla D 0 0 2 1 0 +1 22:21 0.00
Kirk Muller L 0 0 3 0 2 -2 14:33 -0.08
Dave Gagner C 0 0 1 0 1 -2 14:46 -0.18
Paul Laus D 0 0 1 1 2 -1 11:37 -0.50
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Vanbiesbrouck W 31 28 3 .903 60:00 0.55

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Kevin Stevens L 1 2 3 3 0 +2 17:05 2.43
Pat LaFontaine C 0 3 1 1 1 +1 19:14 2.25
Bruce Driver D 1 0 4 0 2 -1 22:48 1.05
Tim Sweeney R 1 0 3 2 0 +2 15:45 1.03
Mike Keane R 0 0 3 2 0 0 17:37 0.28
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 2 4 2 -1 22:05 0.25
Mike Eastwood C 0 0 2 1 0 0 5:20 0.15
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 2 0 +2 19:34 0.15
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 2 0 +1 8:39 0.10
Brian Skrudland C 0 0 1 0 0 0 15:36 0.08
Brian Leetch D 0 0 3 4 3 -1 16:31 0.02
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 0 1 1 2 0 11:46 0.02
Johan Lindbom L 0 0 0 1 0 0 14:55 -0.05
Wayne Gretzky C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 21:58 -0.10
Alex Kovalev R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 8:03 -0.18
Adam Graves L 0 0 3 4 0 -3 22:45 -0.27
Darren Langdon L 0 0 1 2 0 0 4:28 -0.30
Vladimir Vorobiev R 0 0 1 1 0 -3 14:09 -0.48
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter L 29 25 4 .862 59:12 -0.50