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Wednesday, February 4, 1998 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Canadiens 2 at Islanders 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 92OVR Bryan McCabe Canucks First Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG R 97OVR Ziggy Palffy Islanders Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 92OVR Vincent Damphousse Canadiens Third Star 2A · 1 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

No scoring

2nd Period

  1. 3:01 Martin Rucinsky (18) SHG Vincent Damphousse (28), Vladimir Malakhov (19) · Snap MTL 1 – 0 NYI
  2. 3:58 Bryan McCabe (3) PPG Unassisted · Wrist MTL 1 – 1 NYI
  3. 11:01 Ziggy Palffy (29) PPG Tom Chorske (16), Bryan McCabe (8) · Wrist MTL 1 – 2 NYI
  4. 18:18 Patrick Poulin (5) Vincent Damphousse (29), Turner Stevenson (4) · Wrist MTL 2 – 2 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 10:48 Bryan Smolinski (11) Todd Bertuzzi (11), Tom Chorske (17) · Wrist MTL 2 – 3 NYI
  2. 14:43 Mike Hough (3) Ziggy Palffy (24), Bryan McCabe (9) · Wrist MTL 2 – 4 NYI

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Vincent Damphousse C 0 2 1 1 0 +1 18:38 1.48
Martin Rucinsky L 1 0 3 0 0 0 16:55 0.98
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 1 5 2 0 0 25:02 0.95
Turner Stevenson R 0 1 1 1 0 +1 6:52 0.85
Patrick Poulin L 1 0 2 0 0 0 9:57 0.85
Benoit Brunet L 0 0 3 1 2 0 10:41 0.32
Saku Koivu C 0 0 2 0 0 0 20:34 0.10
Craig Rivet D 0 0 0 2 0 +1 12:29 0.10
Marc Bureau C 0 0 1 0 0 0 9:10 0.08
Zarley Zalapski D 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:27 0.05
Dave Manson D 0 0 2 1 1 0 21:18 0.05
Scott Thornton L 0 0 0 0 0 0 5:02 0.00
Jonas Hoglund R 0 0 0 0 0 0 9:30 0.00
Shayne Corson L 0 0 2 1 0 -1 23:17 -0.05
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 2 0 1 -1 21:54 -0.10
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 0 0 0 0 18:24 -0.15
Brian Savage L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 16:50 -0.20
Mark Recchi R 0 0 1 1 0 -1 22:55 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Andy Moog L 24 20 4 .833 58:07 -1.00

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bryan McCabe D 1 2 2 1 1 0 29:53 2.25
Ziggy Palffy R 1 1 4 0 0 0 22:00 1.73
Bryan Smolinski C 1 0 7 0 0 +1 17:41 1.43
Tom Chorske R 0 2 3 1 1 -1 19:15 1.38
Mike Hough L 1 0 2 1 1 +1 16:52 1.10
Todd Bertuzzi R 0 1 0 2 0 +1 8:31 0.38
Bryan Berard D 0 0 1 1 2 0 23:15 0.28
Dan Plante R 0 0 2 3 0 0 14:23 0.20
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 0 1 1 +1 18:30 0.15
Rich Pilon D 0 0 0 5 1 0 24:08 0.15
Mariusz Czerkawski R 0 0 1 0 0 0 5:34 0.13
Kenny Jonsson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 1:08 0.05
Steve Webb R 0 0 0 3 0 0 5:50 0.00
Paul Kruse L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 8:08 -0.08
Scott Lachance D 0 0 1 0 0 0 26:45 -0.08
Jason Strudwick D 0 0 0 1 0 0 12:41 -0.10
Travis Green C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 17:55 -0.15
Robert Reichel C 0 0 0 1 0 -1 12:07 -0.20
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Salo W 27 25 2 .926 60:00 1.00