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Wednesday, April 15, 1998 · Madison Square Garden

Islanders 2 at Rangers 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 85OVR Alex Kovalev Rangers First Star 1G · 2A · 2 SOG L 69OVR Adam Graves Rangers Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG R 97OVR Ziggy Palffy Islanders Third Star 2G · 7 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:28 Adam Graves (22) Brian Leetch (32), Alex Kovalev (29) · Wrist NYI 0 – 1 NYR
  2. 14:36 Alex Kovalev (22) Wayne Gretzky (66), Eric Cairns (3) · Snap NYI 0 – 2 NYR

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 6:02 Ulf Samuelsson (3) P.J. Stock (3) · Slap NYI 0 – 3 NYR
  2. 7:29 Ziggy Palffy (42) PPG Robert Reichel (39) · Wrist NYI 1 – 3 NYR
  3. 12:17 Ziggy Palffy (43) Robert Reichel (40), Zdeno Chara (1) · Backhand NYI 2 – 3 NYR
  4. 19:13 Wayne Gretzky (23) Alex Kovalev (30), Adam Graves (12) · Wrist NYI 2 – 4 NYR

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ziggy Palffy R 2 0 7 0 0 0 28:53 1.93
Robert Reichel C 0 2 3 0 0 0 20:35 1.33
Zdeno Chara D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 13:18 0.58
Bryan Berard D 0 0 2 1 2 -1 26:03 0.15
Mike Hough L 0 0 1 1 0 0 10:01 0.13
Mariusz Czerkawski R 0 0 2 0 0 0 14:30 0.10
Gino Odjick L 0 0 1 0 0 0 7:35 0.08
Ken Belanger L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2:19 0.00
Kenny Jonsson D 0 0 3 1 1 -2 25:30 -0.07
Joe Sacco L 0 0 0 0 1 -2 10:26 -0.10
Trevor Linden C 0 0 2 0 1 -1 24:34 -0.10
Jason Dawe R 0 0 2 1 0 -2 11:16 -0.15
Ray Schultz D 0 0 0 0 1 0 11:57 -0.15
Rich Pilon D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 15:38 -0.22
Tom Chorske R 0 0 2 1 0 -1 13:43 -0.25
J.J. Daigneault D 0 0 1 1 0 -1 23:40 -0.33
Claude Lapointe C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 11:41 -0.35
Bryan Smolinski C 0 0 2 0 0 -3 16:38 -0.35
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Tommy Salo L 29 26 3 .897 59:41 0.35

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alex Kovalev R 1 2 2 0 0 +3 18:34 2.50
Adam Graves L 1 1 3 0 2 +2 21:25 2.20
Wayne Gretzky C 1 1 4 0 0 +3 23:14 1.92
Brian Leetch D 0 1 6 0 4 +2 29:02 1.63
Ulf Samuelsson D 1 0 1 0 3 +2 18:22 1.33
Eric Cairns D 0 1 1 1 1 0 12:59 0.50
P.J. Stock C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 4:32 0.48
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 1 0 2 +1 19:02 0.48
Niklas Sundstrom R 0 0 2 0 0 0 20:54 0.45
Geoff Smith D 0 0 0 0 2 0 20:43 0.35
Bill Berg L 0 0 2 0 0 +1 12:17 0.25
Maxim Galanov D 0 0 0 0 1 +1 12:45 0.20
Marc Savard C 0 0 6 0 0 -1 14:17 0.15
Johan Lindbom L 0 0 1 0 1 -1 10:42 0.13
Daniel Goneau L 0 0 0 1 1 0 12:33 0.05
Kevin Stevens L 0 0 1 1 0 +1 18:30 0.02
Darren Langdon L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 5:32 -0.05
Bob Errey L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 13:00 -0.10
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Dan Cloutier W 31 29 2 .935 60:00 1.40