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Wednesday, March 11, 1998 · Madison Square Garden

Sharks 3 at Rangers 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 97OVR Wayne Gretzky Rangers First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG R 77OVR Owen Nolan Sharks Second Star 2G · 2 SOG · 5 HIT R 85OVR Alex Kovalev Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 14:48 Tony Granato (11) Todd Gill (11), Bernie Nicholls (17) · Wrist SJS 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 19:08 Alex Kovalev (11) PPG Brian Leetch (26), Wayne Gretzky (48) · Slap SJS 1 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 3:28 Owen Nolan (9) Patrick Marleau (13), Marty McSorley (10) · Backhand SJS 2 – 1 NYR
  2. 8:45 Wayne Gretzky (18) PPG Alex Kovalev (21), Pat LaFontaine (37) · Slap SJS 2 – 2 NYR
  3. 9:12 Adam Graves (19) PPG Pat LaFontaine (38), Brian Leetch (27) · Wrist SJS 2 – 3 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 7:46 Vladimir Vorobiev (2) P.J. Stock (2), Tim Sweeney (15) · Wrist SJS 2 – 4 NYR
  2. 8:21 Niklas Sundstrom (15) Wayne Gretzky (49), Kevin Stevens (24) · Snap SJS 2 – 5 NYR
  3. 11:00 Owen Nolan (10) PPG Jeff Friesen (23), Todd Gill (12) · Tip-in SJS 3 – 5 NYR

San Jose Sharks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Owen Nolan R 2 0 2 5 0 +1 21:36 1.75
Todd Gill D 0 2 2 1 1 0 23:43 1.30
Tony Granato R 1 0 4 3 1 0 13:57 1.05
Patrick Marleau C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 16:39 0.75
Marty McSorley D 0 1 1 1 1 0 21:41 0.60
Bernie Nicholls C 0 1 0 2 1 0 15:47 0.48
Jeff Friesen L 0 1 0 2 0 -1 16:43 0.43
Ron Sutter C 0 0 1 2 0 0 7:47 0.13
Marco Sturm L 0 0 2 3 0 0 15:50 0.10
Dave Lowry L 0 0 1 3 0 0 9:31 0.08
Mike Ricci C 0 0 1 3 1 -1 16:00 0.03
John MacLean R 0 0 3 2 0 -1 14:07 0.02
Bill Houlder D 0 0 3 0 1 0 25:32 0.02
Andrei Zyuzin D 0 0 1 0 0 0 10:25 0.02
Shawn Burr L 0 0 0 2 0 0 11:15 -0.05
Stephane Matteau L 0 0 0 2 0 +1 14:14 -0.38
Marcus Ragnarsson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 20:46 -0.40
Mike Rathje D 0 0 0 1 0 0 18:08 -0.40
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kelly Hrudey L 25 20 5 .800 58:36 -1.75

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Wayne Gretzky C 1 2 3 0 0 -1 21:13 1.83
Alex Kovalev R 1 1 3 0 0 0 18:54 1.45
Pat LaFontaine C 0 2 2 2 0 0 20:16 1.30
Brian Leetch D 0 2 1 2 2 -1 28:46 1.18
Adam Graves L 1 0 2 1 1 0 23:57 0.90
Niklas Sundstrom R 1 0 3 1 2 -1 19:28 0.83
Vladimir Vorobiev R 1 0 2 1 0 +1 5:21 0.80
Tim Sweeney R 0 1 0 1 0 +1 5:07 0.78
Kevin Stevens L 0 1 3 3 0 -1 15:38 0.65
P.J. Stock C 0 1 0 2 0 +1 5:17 0.30
Doug Lidster D 0 0 1 2 1 0 17:41 0.18
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 1 3 2 +1 18:22 0.13
Jeff Finley D 0 0 0 3 0 +1 13:20 0.05
Mike Keane R 0 0 1 2 1 0 12:59 0.02
Bill Berg L 0 0 1 3 0 0 14:31 0.02
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 4 0 0 18:10 -0.05
Brian Skrudland C 0 0 1 0 0 0 11:33 -0.08
Bruce Driver D 0 0 1 2 1 -1 18:25 -0.28
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter W 22 19 3 .864 59:58 -0.35