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Friday, February 23, 2001 · Mellon Arena

Rangers 4 at Penguins 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Alex Kovalev Penguins First Star 3G · 2A · 5 SOG C 97OVR Martin Straka Penguins Second Star 1G · 3A · 3 SOG D 98OVR Brian Leetch Rangers Third Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:25 Radek Dvorak (18) Jan Hlavac (25), Petr Nedved (34) · Wrist NYR 1 – 0 PIT
  2. 14:43 Alex Kovalev (37) Martin Straka (44) · Wrist NYR 1 – 1 PIT
  3. 17:26 Mark Messier (19) SHG Unassisted · Backhand NYR 2 – 1 PIT
  4. 18:44 Alex Kovalev (38) PPG Kevin Stevens (18), Jaromir Jagr (49) · Wrist NYR 2 – 2 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 3:50 Mario Lemieux (22) PPG Alex Kovalev (35), Martin Straka (45) · Snap NYR 2 – 3 PIT
  2. 6:43 Josef Beranek (7) Wayne Primeau (14), Jan Hrdina (22) · Slap NYR 2 – 4 PIT
  3. 11:52 Brian Leetch (15) PPG Mark Messier (30), Adam Graves (13) · Slap NYR 3 – 4 PIT
  4. 12:28 Alex Kovalev (39) Robert Lang (38), Martin Straka (46) · Wrist NYR 3 – 5 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 0:46 Martin Straka (22) Alex Kovalev (36), Sven Butenschon (1) · Wrist NYR 3 – 6 PIT
  2. 4:05 Valeri Kamensky (12) PPG Brian Leetch (47), Adam Graves (14) · Wrist NYR 4 – 6 PIT

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brian Leetch D 1 1 5 0 2 0 16:15 1.85
Mark Messier C 1 1 4 0 0 +1 23:00 1.78
Adam Graves L 0 2 3 2 1 +1 22:31 1.63
Valeri Kamensky L 1 0 3 1 1 -1 10:56 0.52
Jan Hlavac L 0 1 3 1 0 -2 19:18 0.50
Radek Dvorak R 1 0 1 0 0 -2 16:54 0.48
Petr Nedved C 0 1 0 1 0 -2 19:54 0.38
Rich Pilon D 0 0 1 6 4 0 24:48 0.28
Sylvain Lefebvre D 0 0 1 2 1 0 13:37 0.08
Jeff Ulmer R 0 0 0 0 0 0 9:46 0.05
Brad Brown D 0 0 1 1 0 0 8:40 0.02
Manny Malhotra C 0 0 0 2 0 0 5:06 0.00
Theo Fleury R 0 0 2 0 0 0 22:02 0.00
Mike York L 0 0 2 1 0 -1 14:26 0.00
Kim Johnsson D 0 0 1 1 1 -2 22:13 -0.12
Eric Lacroix L 0 0 0 1 0 0 2:00 -0.15
Alexei Gusarov D 0 0 0 0 2 -2 15:19 -0.25
Sandy McCarthy R 0 0 0 2 0 -1 10:52 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Vitali Yeremeyev L 32 26 6 .812 59:03 -1.90

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alex Kovalev R 3 2 5 1 0 +1 22:53 3.98
Martin Straka C 1 3 3 0 1 +1 22:34 2.90
Josef Beranek L 1 0 3 2 0 +1 15:34 1.08
Sven Butenschon D 0 1 3 1 0 +2 16:06 1.00
Robert Lang C 0 1 2 1 0 +1 20:24 0.88
Wayne Primeau C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 13:27 0.83
Jan Hrdina C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 15:37 0.80
Mario Lemieux C 1 0 3 0 0 -1 22:32 0.78
Kevin Stevens L 0 1 3 1 0 0 18:58 0.65
Jaromir Jagr R 0 1 1 0 0 -1 21:14 0.55
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 1 6 0 +2 20:14 0.43
Josef Melichar D 0 0 1 3 1 +1 16:43 0.28
Janne Laukkanen D 0 0 1 0 2 0 17:16 0.18
Bob Boughner D 0 0 2 2 0 +1 19:57 0.15
Billy Tibbetts R 0 0 1 1 0 0 7:28 0.08
Steve McKenna L 0 0 1 0 0 0 2:52 0.08
Andrew Ference D 0 0 0 1 1 0 18:07 0.05
Krzysztof Oliwa L 0 0 1 1 0 0 4:13 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jean-Sebastien Aubin W 27 23 4 .852 60:00 -0.70