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Wednesday, December 17, 1997 · Miami Arena

Rangers 4 at Panthers 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 50OVR Mike Eastwood Blues First Star 2G · 2 SOG D 71OVR Ulf Samuelsson Rangers Second Star 2A · 1 SOG L 53OVR Johan Lindbom Rangers Third Star 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 1:21 Brian Skrudland (4) Alex Kovalev (12), Ulf Samuelsson (5) NYR 1 – 0 FLA
  2. 17:22 Ray Whitney (10) PPG Robert Svehla (14), Dave Gagner (11) NYR 1 – 1 FLA

3rd Period

  1. 0:41 Chris Wells (3) SHG Radek Dvorak (6), Gord Murphy (6) NYR 1 – 2 FLA
  2. 8:18 Mike Eastwood (1) Ulf Samuelsson (6) NYR 2 – 2 FLA
  3. 11:42 Pat LaFontaine (16) Johan Lindbom (2), Brian Leetch (12) NYR 3 – 2 FLA
  4. 12:56 Mike Eastwood (2) Darren Langdon (2), P.J. Stock (1) NYR 4 – 2 FLA

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike Eastwood C 2 0 2 0 1 +2 10:27 2.05
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 2 1 1 0 +3 20:41 1.78
Johan Lindbom L 0 1 3 0 0 +2 14:21 1.20
Darren Langdon L 0 1 1 1 0 +2 8:18 1.05
P.J. Stock C 0 1 1 0 0 +2 9:34 1.00
Pat LaFontaine C 1 0 3 0 0 0 18:21 0.98
Brian Leetch D 0 1 4 0 0 0 25:17 0.98
Brian Skrudland C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 12:14 0.90
Alex Kovalev R 0 1 1 1 0 +1 12:01 0.55
Jeff Finley D 0 0 2 0 0 +2 20:11 0.45
Mike Keane R 0 0 4 0 0 0 16:27 0.30
Kevin Stevens L 0 0 4 2 0 0 16:18 0.30
Eric Cairns D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 13:57 0.28
Adam Graves L 0 0 4 0 0 -1 20:53 0.15
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 0 4 0 0 0 22:42 0.15
Wayne Gretzky C 0 0 1 0 0 0 18:55 0.13
Bruce Driver D 0 0 1 0 0 0 17:12 0.08
Tim Sweeney R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 16:24 -0.08
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 29 27 2 .931 59:56 1.20

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Chris Wells C 1 0 3 1 0 0 13:03 0.87
Robert Svehla D 0 1 2 0 1 0 23:06 0.83
Radek Dvorak R 0 1 0 0 0 0 16:21 0.73
Ray Whitney L 1 0 4 1 0 -2 13:48 0.65
Gord Murphy D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 22:47 0.60
Dave Gagner C 0 1 3 0 0 -2 16:15 0.55
Paul Laus D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 11:59 0.22
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 0 1 1 0 0 16:21 0.13
David Nemirovsky R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 10:12 0.12
Kirk Muller L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 12:16 0.00
Bill Lindsay L 0 0 2 2 0 0 11:56 0.00
Steve Washburn C 0 0 0 1 0 0 16:09 0.00
Terry Carkner D 0 0 0 0 0 0 19:13 0.00
Scott Mellanby R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 18:04 -0.02
Ed Jovanovski D 0 0 3 3 0 -1 20:42 -0.08
Dallas Eakins D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 14:34 -0.22
Ray Sheppard R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 18:25 -0.28
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 16:17 -0.48
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Vanbiesbrouck L 40 36 4 .900 58:39 0.60