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Saturday, January 3, 1998 · MCI Center

Rangers 3 at Capitals 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 97OVR Wayne Gretzky Rangers First Star 2G · 4 SOG D 97OVR Mark Tinordi Capitals Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG G 67OVR Dan Cloutier Rangers Third Star 16 SV · 1.000 RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:31 Andrew Brunette (3) Todd Krygier (5), Mark Tinordi (9) NYR 0 – 1 WSH
  2. 6:20 Mark Tinordi (7) SHG Adam Oates (30) NYR 0 – 2 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 4:53 Wayne Gretzky (11) Bruce Driver (6), Darren Langdon (3) NYR 1 – 2 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 1:34 Adam Graves (11) Pat LaFontaine (27), Tim Sweeney (11) NYR 2 – 2 WSH
  2. 19:38 Wayne Gretzky (12) Niklas Sundstrom (15) NYR 3 – 2 WSH

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Wayne Gretzky C 2 0 4 0 0 +1 16:53 1.85
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 1 5 2 0 +1 16:46 1.20
Adam Graves L 1 0 1 0 0 +1 19:06 0.98
Bruce Driver D 0 1 2 0 2 +1 26:39 0.87
Tim Sweeney R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 11:19 0.78
Pat LaFontaine C 0 1 1 0 0 0 18:34 0.60
Jeff Finley D 0 0 0 2 1 +3 18:05 0.50
Darren Langdon L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 6:11 0.48
Alexander Karpovtsev D 0 0 1 1 2 +2 27:26 0.32
Bill Berg L 0 0 2 0 1 0 15:11 0.20
Brian Leetch D 0 0 4 1 2 -2 28:13 0.15
Alex Kovalev R 0 0 1 0 0 0 13:34 0.08
Eric Cairns D 0 0 1 0 0 0 11:51 0.08
P.J. Stock C 0 0 0 0 0 0 8:55 0.05
Mike Keane R 0 0 2 0 1 -1 18:15 0.00
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 1 1 -1 7:10 -0.10
Kevin Stevens L 0 0 0 1 1 -1 14:30 -0.40
Brian Skrudland C 0 0 2 0 1 -1 13:30 -0.48
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dan Cloutier W 16 16 0 1.000 53:37 1.60
Mike Richter — 4 2 2 .500 6:18 -1.30

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mark Tinordi D 1 1 2 2 4 +2 20:17 1.73
Andrew Brunette L 1 0 1 0 0 0 18:47 0.83
Adam Oates C 0 1 0 0 2 +1 24:18 0.73
Todd Krygier L 0 1 3 0 0 -1 19:48 0.70
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 0 2 2 1 0 19:38 0.25
Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 2 0 1 0 21:09 0.20
Mike Eagles L 0 0 1 2 1 0 11:21 0.13
Joe Reekie D 0 0 0 1 0 0 17:20 0.10
Richard Zednik R 0 0 1 1 0 0 7:18 0.08
Michal Pivonka C 0 0 2 1 0 0 15:47 0.05
Jan Bulis C 0 0 0 1 0 0 6:03 0.00
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 2 2 0 0 18:40 0.00
Kelly Miller L 0 0 0 1 1 -1 12:11 -0.05
Peter Bondra R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 18:14 -0.20
Calle Johansson D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 24:43 -0.20
Brendan Witt D 0 0 1 3 0 -2 18:00 -0.22
Craig Berube L 0 0 0 1 0 0 6:11 -0.53
Dale Hunter C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 10:33 -0.70
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Olie Kolzig L 27 24 3 .889 59:38 0.15