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Wednesday, January 21, 1998 · Centre Molson

Bruins 2 at Canadiens 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 87OVR Martin Rucinsky Canadiens First Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG C 90OVR Vincent Damphousse Canadiens Second Star 1A · 2 SOG D 94OVR Patrice Brisebois Canadiens Third Star 1G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 11:49 Stephane Quintal (5) Martin Rucinsky (22), Brian Savage (12) · Wrist BOS 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 12:43 Anson Carter (6) Kyle McLaren (11), Don Sweeney (12) · Wrist BOS 1 – 1 MTL
  3. 13:28 Patrice Brisebois (3) Benoit Brunet (7), Saku Koivu (32) · Wrist BOS 1 – 2 MTL
  4. 18:21 Sergei Samsonov (8) Dmitri Khristich (17), Jason Allison (28) · Wrist BOS 2 – 2 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 19:02 Patrick Poulin (3) SHG Vincent Damphousse (26) · Wrist BOS 2 – 3 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 4:44 Martin Rucinsky (16) Unassisted BOS 2 – 4 MTL

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Kyle McLaren D 0 1 3 4 2 0 27:23 0.95
Anson Carter R 1 0 1 1 0 +1 15:21 0.93
Sergei Samsonov L 1 0 5 0 0 -2 15:10 0.83
Don Sweeney D 0 1 0 3 2 0 22:31 0.73
Dmitri Khristich R 0 1 1 0 0 -2 18:00 0.45
Jason Allison C 0 1 0 0 1 -2 18:12 0.33
Steve Heinze R 0 0 2 1 0 +1 14:06 0.30
Ted Donato L 0 0 1 2 0 +1 13:15 0.22
Joe Thornton C 0 0 2 1 0 0 7:57 0.15
Tim Taylor C 0 0 3 1 0 -1 17:56 0.07
Ken Baumgartner L 0 0 0 1 0 0 5:33 -0.05
Mattias Timander D 0 0 0 1 0 0 9:19 -0.05
Rob DiMaio R 0 0 0 0 1 -1 14:54 -0.10
Darren Van Impe D 0 0 0 0 0 0 3:47 -0.20
P.J. Axelsson L 0 0 1 1 1 -1 19:05 -0.23
Ray Bourque D 0 0 0 5 2 -2 16:40 -0.25
Mike Sullivan C 0 0 0 1 0 0 9:16 -0.30
Dave Ellett D 0 0 0 1 1 -2 24:12 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Byron Dafoe L 33 29 4 .879 58:46 -0.10

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Martin Rucinsky L 1 1 1 0 2 +2 17:37 1.70
Vincent Damphousse C 0 1 2 1 2 +3 19:44 1.13
Patrice Brisebois D 1 0 3 3 0 +1 22:38 1.13
Brian Savage L 0 1 1 3 0 +2 15:08 0.95
Saku Koivu C 0 1 3 2 0 +1 18:34 0.90
Stephane Quintal D 1 0 2 2 1 0 21:05 0.90
Benoit Brunet L 0 1 2 1 0 +1 18:21 0.88
Mark Recchi R 0 0 8 0 1 +1 21:22 0.75
Patrick Poulin L 1 0 2 0 0 0 13:34 0.65
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 0 2 2 0 +3 23:48 0.55
Dave Manson D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 25:32 0.25
Peter Popovic D 0 0 0 2 1 0 17:15 0.00
Sebastien Bordeleau C 0 0 1 0 1 -1 4:54 -0.02
Scott Thornton L 0 0 1 3 0 -1 10:10 -0.13
Igor Ulanov D 0 0 0 0 1 -1 4:24 -0.15
Turner Stevenson R 0 0 0 5 0 -1 9:20 -0.20
Marc Bureau C 0 0 0 0 1 -1 13:58 -0.20
Valeri Bure R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 13:07 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault W 19 17 2 .895 59:49 0.20