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Tuesday, March 31, 1998 · MCI Center

Islanders 2 at Capitals 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 99OVR Peter Bondra Capitals First Star 2G · 1A · 3 SOG L 75OVR Steve Konowalchuk Capitals Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG R 78OVR Mariusz Czerkawski Islanders Third Star 2G · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:44 Mariusz Czerkawski (8) Trevor Linden (20), Ziggy Palffy (35) · Tip-in NYI 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 8:43 Peter Bondra (44) Steve Konowalchuk (17), Joe Juneau (20) · Tip-in NYI 1 – 1 WSH
  3. 14:15 Mariusz Czerkawski (9) Kenny Jonsson (23), Ziggy Palffy (36) · Tip-in NYI 2 – 1 WSH
  4. 18:12 Peter Bondra (45) Andrei Nikolishin (3) · Snap NYI 2 – 2 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 7:27 Esa Tikkanen (2) PPG Jeff Brown (21) · Slap NYI 2 – 3 WSH
  2. 14:47 Brian Bellows (3) PPG Sergei Gonchar (15), Phil Housley (24) · Tip-in NYI 2 – 4 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 10:23 Steve Konowalchuk (8) Andrei Nikolishin (4), Peter Bondra (23) · Wrist NYI 2 – 5 WSH

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mariusz Czerkawski R 2 0 5 0 1 +1 19:34 2.08
Ziggy Palffy R 0 2 5 0 1 +2 18:34 1.93
Kenny Jonsson D 0 1 1 0 3 +2 28:20 1.15
Trevor Linden C 0 1 4 1 0 +1 20:04 1.08
Bryan Smolinski C 0 0 4 2 0 0 14:31 0.30
Gino Odjick L 0 0 4 2 0 0 10:00 0.30
Jason Dawe R 0 0 1 0 0 0 14:02 0.08
Bryan Berard D 0 0 1 0 0 0 23:07 0.08
Sergei Nemchinov L 0 0 2 0 1 -1 13:52 0.05
Robert Reichel C 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:19 0.00
Mike Hough L 0 0 1 0 1 -1 11:49 -0.02
J.J. Daigneault D 0 0 1 0 4 -2 23:40 -0.02
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 0 1 1 -1 11:56 -0.10
Zdeno Chara D 0 0 0 2 1 -1 13:38 -0.10
Ray Schultz D 0 0 0 0 1 0 10:24 -0.10
Joe Sacco L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 10:47 -0.15
Tom Chorske R 0 0 1 1 0 -2 13:41 -0.18
Rich Pilon D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 21:09 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Salo L 25 20 5 .800 59:55 -1.75

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Peter Bondra R 2 1 3 1 0 +3 17:08 2.80
Steve Konowalchuk L 1 1 4 1 0 +3 15:37 2.18
Andrei Nikolishin C 0 2 0 0 0 +2 13:39 1.55
Sergei Gonchar D 0 1 2 0 1 +1 25:48 0.98
Brian Bellows L 1 0 4 0 0 -1 18:45 0.95
Jeff Brown D 0 1 0 0 2 +1 20:51 0.88
Esa Tikkanen L 1 0 3 0 0 -1 19:56 0.83
Joe Juneau C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 13:33 0.68
Phil Housley D 0 1 2 0 1 -1 16:43 0.53
Joe Reekie D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 21:26 0.20
Calle Johansson D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 18:25 0.18
Brendan Witt D 0 0 4 2 0 -1 16:47 0.15
Todd Krygier L 0 0 0 0 0 0 13:10 0.00
Mike Eagles L 0 0 0 2 0 0 11:13 0.00
Dale Hunter C 0 0 0 0 0 0 12:24 -0.05
Kelly Miller L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 10:28 -0.08
Craig Berube L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 10:03 -0.20
Adam Oates C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 20:01 -0.43
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Olie Kolzig W 33 31 2 .939 60:00 1.60