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Sunday, December 28, 1997 · Madison Square Garden

Bruins 3 at Rangers 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 97OVR Wayne Gretzky Rangers First Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG D 67OVR Dave Ellett Bruins Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG · 4 HIT C 48OVR Brian Skrudland Stars Third Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:21 Dmitri Khristich (14) PPG Jason Allison (26), Dave Ellett (10) · Snap BOS 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 14:42 Wayne Gretzky (10) Alex Kovalev (13), Johan Lindbom (3) BOS 1 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 4:43 Dave Ellett (3) Unassisted · Wrist BOS 2 – 1 NYR
  2. 10:17 Sergei Samsonov (5) PPG Ray Bourque (16), Cameron Mann (1) · Slap BOS 3 – 1 NYR
  3. 14:40 Mike Keane (8) Brian Skrudland (4) · Snap BOS 3 – 2 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 3:34 Adam Graves (10) Brian Leetch (14), Wayne Gretzky (26) · Wrist BOS 3 – 3 NYR
  2. 19:37 Brian Skrudland (5) Bill Berg (5), Alexander Karpovtsev (7) · Backhand BOS 3 – 4 NYR

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dave Ellett D 1 1 3 4 4 +1 25:42 1.95
Sergei Samsonov L 1 0 4 0 0 0 13:07 1.05
Cameron Mann R 0 1 1 1 0 0 6:22 0.70
Ray Bourque D 0 1 5 2 0 -3 31:44 0.70
Dmitri Khristich R 1 0 2 2 0 -1 21:17 0.60
Jason Allison C 0 1 0 0 0 -1 21:44 0.48
Hal Gill D 0 0 0 1 0 +1 7:00 0.15
Rob DiMaio R 0 0 2 1 1 -1 17:40 0.10
P.J. Axelsson L 0 0 4 2 0 -2 18:20 -0.05
Steve Heinze R 0 0 3 1 0 -1 19:45 -0.08
Mike Sullivan C 0 0 1 4 0 -1 14:39 -0.13
Kyle McLaren D 0 0 1 4 0 -1 21:18 -0.13
Tim Taylor C 0 0 2 4 1 -2 17:44 -0.15
Anson Carter R 0 0 0 1 0 0 14:38 -0.15
Don Sweeney D 0 0 0 3 2 -1 19:41 -0.15
Dean Malkoc D 0 0 0 2 1 0 3:31 -0.33
Darren Van Impe D 0 0 1 2 0 -3 15:39 -0.37
Ken Baumgartner L 0 0 0 1 0 0 3:54 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Byron Dafoe L 23 19 4 .826 59:27 -1.10

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Wayne Gretzky C 1 1 5 0 0 +2 20:40 2.05
Brian Skrudland C 1 1 1 0 1 +1 14:57 1.60
Brian Leetch D 0 1 2 6 1 +3 16:26 1.23
Mike Keane R 1 0 1 1 1 +2 19:08 1.13
Adam Graves L 1 0 1 9 0 +1 19:58 0.98
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 1 1 2 5 +1 22:37 0.95
Bill Berg L 0 1 0 4 1 +2 16:51 0.93
Alex Kovalev R 0 1 2 1 0 +1 11:09 0.83
Johan Lindbom L 0 1 0 2 0 +1 12:17 0.78
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 1 6 3 +3 24:49 0.48
Jeff Finley D 0 0 0 3 1 +1 15:11 0.30
Pat LaFontaine C 0 0 1 0 1 0 18:30 0.13
Vladimir Vorobiev R 0 0 1 0 0 0 6:25 0.08
Bruce Driver D 0 0 3 1 0 -1 16:20 0.07
Kevin Stevens L 0 0 3 5 0 0 16:28 0.02
Tim Sweeney R 0 0 1 1 0 0 14:35 0.02
Eric Cairns D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 4:57 -0.53
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 1 0 -1 2:39 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 29 26 3 .897 59:50 0.35