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Saturday, December 27, 1997 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Panthers 6 at Islanders 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 83OVR Radek Dvorak Panthers First Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG C 65OVR Chris Wells Panthers Second Star 2A · 1 SOG L 69OVR Bill Lindsay Panthers Third Star 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 19:59 Ziggy Palffy (19) Sergei Nemchinov (13), Robert Reichel (23) · Wrist FLA 0 – 1 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 5:54 Radek Dvorak (4) Robert Svehla (18), Ed Jovanovski (4) · Tip-in FLA 1 – 1 NYI
  2. 12:51 Steve Washburn (8) Rob Niedermayer (3), Viktor Kozlov (3) · Wrist FLA 2 – 1 NYI
  3. 13:36 Tom Fitzgerald (6) Bill Lindsay (7), Paul Laus (11) · Wrist FLA 3 – 1 NYI
  4. 16:01 Kenny Jonsson (7) Bryan Smolinski (18), Todd Bertuzzi (10) · Wrist FLA 3 – 2 NYI
  5. 17:46 Ray Sheppard (9) Radek Dvorak (9), Dave Gagner (14) · Wrist FLA 4 – 2 NYI
  6. 18:28 Radek Dvorak (5) SHG Chris Wells (7) · Wrist FLA 5 – 2 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 9:48 Tom Fitzgerald (7) Chris Wells (8), Bill Lindsay (8) · Wrist FLA 6 – 2 NYI

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Radek Dvorak R 2 1 3 0 0 +2 15:27 2.60
Chris Wells C 0 2 1 2 0 +3 10:38 1.88
Bill Lindsay L 0 2 1 0 0 +2 11:10 1.68
Tom Fitzgerald R 2 0 6 3 0 +2 13:11 1.23
Ray Sheppard R 1 0 3 0 0 +1 15:50 1.08
Steve Washburn C 1 0 2 1 0 0 11:05 0.90
Viktor Kozlov C 0 1 2 1 1 0 17:00 0.88
Dave Gagner C 0 1 0 1 1 +1 16:17 0.78
Paul Laus D 0 1 0 1 1 +3 16:03 0.70
Robert Svehla D 0 1 0 2 1 -1 29:36 0.58
Gord Murphy D 0 0 0 0 2 +4 23:38 0.55
Rob Niedermayer C 0 1 3 4 0 0 18:50 0.40
Ed Jovanovski D 0 1 3 8 1 0 18:22 0.32
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 1 0 0 0 4:48 0.08
David Nemirovsky R 0 0 0 2 0 -1 10:39 -0.15
Terry Carkner D 0 0 1 1 1 0 21:19 -0.15
Ray Whitney L 0 0 0 1 0 -1 16:30 -0.20
Scott Mellanby R 0 0 1 2 0 -1 15:52 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Vanbiesbrouck W 22 20 2 .909 59:55 0.50

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ziggy Palffy R 1 0 6 0 1 -1 23:24 1.25
Kenny Jonsson D 1 0 1 1 2 -1 24:33 0.88
Robert Reichel C 0 1 2 0 3 -1 19:29 0.68
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 1 2 0 0 0 21:03 0.63
Todd Bertuzzi R 0 1 1 5 1 -1 11:44 0.60
Bryan Smolinski C 0 1 1 1 1 -2 15:40 0.40
Bryan McCabe D 0 0 2 1 0 +1 26:03 0.30
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 0 2 2 0 14:21 0.10
Doug Houda D 0 0 0 0 1 0 7:03 0.00
Scott Lachance D 0 0 0 3 0 -1 24:47 0.00
Mariusz Czerkawski R 0 0 0 1 0 0 10:12 -0.05
Travis Green C 0 0 2 0 1 -2 15:23 -0.05
Mike Hough L 0 0 0 1 0 0 10:23 -0.10
Tom Chorske R 0 0 0 1 0 -2 15:44 -0.30
Ken Belanger L 0 0 0 1 0 0 5:04 -0.43
Rich Pilon D 0 0 0 2 1 -1 14:26 -0.72
Paul Kruse L 0 0 1 4 0 0 6:40 -0.98
Bryan Berard D 0 0 4 3 1 -4 23:08 -1.43
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Eric Fichaud — 4 2 2 .500 6:24 -1.30
Tommy Salo L 23 19 4 .826 53:36 -1.10