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Wednesday, March 4, 1998 · Miami Arena

Rangers 4 at Panthers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 97OVR Wayne Gretzky Rangers First Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG D 68OVR Brian Leetch Rangers Second Star 2A · 6 SOG D 72OVR Ed Jovanovski Panthers Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:24 Scott Mellanby (10) Kirk Muller (15), Robert Svehla (29) NYR 0 – 1 FLA
  2. 19:18 Wayne Gretzky (14) PPG Brian Leetch (24), Alex Kovalev (18) NYR 1 – 1 FLA

2nd Period

  1. 16:02 Kevin Stevens (13) Mike Keane (10), Brian Skrudland (6) NYR 2 – 1 FLA
  2. 18:59 Ed Jovanovski (7) Viktor Kozlov (7), Jeff Norton (11) NYR 2 – 2 FLA

3rd Period

  1. 0:28 Niklas Sundstrom (14) Bruce Driver (12), Wayne Gretzky (47) NYR 3 – 2 FLA
  2. 6:58 Wayne Gretzky (15) PPG Brian Leetch (25), Pat LaFontaine (36) NYR 4 – 2 FLA
  3. 14:54 Ray Whitney (23) Ray Sheppard (14), Ed Jovanovski (7) NYR 4 – 3 FLA

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Wayne Gretzky C 2 1 2 0 0 0 20:58 2.33
Brian Leetch D 0 2 6 0 0 +1 30:12 1.85
Bruce Driver D 0 1 6 0 0 +1 25:37 1.22
Niklas Sundstrom R 1 0 3 1 0 +1 16:07 1.18
Kevin Stevens L 1 0 3 0 0 0 13:43 1.03
Mike Keane R 0 1 1 0 0 0 14:59 0.70
Brian Skrudland C 0 1 1 0 0 0 12:57 0.70
Pat LaFontaine C 0 1 0 0 0 0 18:48 0.63
Alex Kovalev R 0 1 2 0 0 0 16:38 0.63
Adam Graves L 0 0 8 0 0 -1 22:23 0.45
Jeff Finley D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 12:58 -0.08
Bill Berg L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 10:14 -0.10
Mike Eastwood C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 7:28 -0.15
Tim Sweeney R 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:41 -0.35
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:37 -0.38
Doug Lidster D 0 0 1 1 0 -1 16:46 -0.38
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 3 0 -1 14:31 -0.45
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 16:43 -0.80
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 42 39 3 .929 60:00 1.65

Florida Panthers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ed Jovanovski D 1 1 4 0 1 +2 21:37 1.83
Robert Svehla D 0 1 6 0 1 +2 30:33 1.48
Ray Whitney L 1 0 3 0 0 +1 15:26 1.18
Viktor Kozlov C 0 1 5 2 0 +2 16:35 1.15
Scott Mellanby R 1 0 5 0 0 +1 16:36 1.13
Kirk Muller L 0 1 1 1 0 +1 12:22 0.85
Ray Sheppard R 0 1 2 0 0 0 12:54 0.68
Jeff Norton D 0 1 1 0 0 0 13:58 0.65
Esa Tikkanen L 0 0 2 0 0 +1 15:20 0.30
Radek Dvorak R 0 0 1 1 0 0 11:33 0.08
Tom Fitzgerald R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 11:56 0.07
Rhett Warrener D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 16:18 0.03
Rob Niedermayer C 0 0 2 1 0 0 18:39 0.00
Bill Lindsay L 0 0 1 1 1 -1 12:22 -0.08
Dave Gagner C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 15:33 -0.08
Gord Murphy D 0 0 1 1 0 -1 19:54 -0.08
Dino Ciccarelli R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 13:17 -0.45
Paul Laus D 0 0 1 0 0 0 11:17 -0.50
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kevin Weekes L 34 30 4 .882 59:01 0.00