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Saturday, March 21, 1998 · Madison Square Garden

Red Wings 4 at Rangers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 98OVR Nicklas Lidstrom Red Wings First Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG D 99OVR Larry Murphy Red Wings Second Star 2A · 0 SOG L 75OVR Kirk Maltby Red Wings Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 1:25 Kirk Maltby (12) Unassisted · Wrist DET 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 7:41 Kris Draper (11) Larry Murphy (36), Kirk Maltby (9) · Tip-in DET 2 – 0 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 4:15 Nicklas Lidstrom (16) PPG Steve Yzerman (37), Larry Murphy (37) · Slap DET 3 – 0 NYR
  2. 10:14 Doug Brown (14) Sergei Fedorov (5), Nicklas Lidstrom (35) · Tip-in DET 4 – 0 NYR
  3. 17:47 Alex Kovalev (14) PPG Brian Leetch (29), Bruce Driver (13) · Slap DET 4 – 1 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 9:33 Tim Sweeney (11) PPG Bruce Driver (14), Wayne Gretzky (56) · Backhand DET 4 – 2 NYR
  2. 11:05 Alex Kovalev (15) Wayne Gretzky (57), Niklas Sundstrom (22) · Tip-in DET 4 – 3 NYR

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Nicklas Lidstrom D 1 1 2 0 1 +2 29:26 1.93
Larry Murphy D 0 2 0 0 2 +3 27:54 1.80
Kirk Maltby L 1 1 3 2 0 +1 18:07 1.70
Kris Draper C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 17:08 1.13
Doug Brown R 1 0 2 1 1 +1 18:24 1.05
Steve Yzerman C 0 1 2 0 0 0 24:05 0.83
Sergei Fedorov C 0 1 1 2 0 +1 21:57 0.55
Brendan Shanahan L 0 0 4 1 0 +1 16:13 0.35
Mike Knuble R 0 0 1 1 1 +1 14:38 0.33
Vyacheslav Kozlov L 0 0 4 0 0 0 18:15 0.15
Jamie Pushor D 0 0 0 1 3 0 12:34 0.05
Mathieu Dandenault R 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:54 0.00
Aaron Ward D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:08 0.00
Darryl Laplante C 0 0 1 0 0 0 3:05 -0.03
Anders Eriksson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 18:20 -0.05
Darren McCarty R 0 0 1 2 0 0 20:25 -0.18
Viacheslav Fetisov D 0 0 0 2 0 0 18:40 -0.20
Bob Rouse D 0 0 1 1 0 -1 12:38 -0.32
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kevin Hodson W 22 19 3 .864 60:00 -0.35

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alex Kovalev R 2 0 5 2 0 -2 26:07 1.33
Bruce Driver D 0 2 0 0 2 -1 21:28 0.95
Wayne Gretzky C 0 2 0 0 0 -2 22:29 0.85
Brian Leetch D 0 1 3 0 2 -1 27:45 0.80
Tim Sweeney R 1 0 3 2 0 0 10:05 0.77
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 1 1 1 1 -1 17:33 0.65
Marc Savard C 0 0 2 0 0 0 16:13 0.15
Mike Eastwood C 0 0 2 0 1 0 10:47 0.15
Geoff Smith D 0 0 0 0 4 -1 20:23 0.10
Mike Keane R 0 0 2 3 0 0 17:11 0.05
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 1 1 0 8:20 0.05
Bill Berg L 0 0 0 2 0 0 12:21 0.05
Adam Graves L 0 0 3 1 1 -1 17:06 0.02
Brian Skrudland C 0 0 0 0 0 0 8:44 0.00
Jeff Finley D 0 0 0 0 2 0 13:46 0.00
Doug Lidster D 0 0 1 0 1 0 15:04 -0.08
Vladimir Vorobiev R 0 0 0 0 0 0 10:07 -0.10
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 19:40 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter L 25 21 4 .840 59:23 -0.90