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Saturday, March 9, 2002 · Mellon Arena

Rangers 2 at Penguins 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 99OVR Alex Kovalev Penguins First Star 2A · 5 SOG C 60OVR Milan Kraft Penguins Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG C 54OVR Kris Beech Penguins Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 18:03 Milan Kraft (7) PPG Aleksey Morozov (22), Kris Beech (14) · Snap NYR 0 – 1 PIT

2nd Period

  1. 4:59 Andreas Johansson (14) Mikael Samuelsson (9), Dave Karpa (7) · Slap NYR 1 – 1 PIT
  2. 10:51 Kris Beech (8) PPG Alex Kovalev (32), Milan Kraft (7) · Slap NYR 1 – 2 PIT

3rd Period

  1. 18:09 Sandy McCarthy (6) Theo Fleury (35), Mike York (36) · Wrist NYR 2 – 2 PIT

Overtime

  1. 0:37 Jan Hrdina (20) Alex Kovalev (33) · Tip-in NYR 2 – 3 PIT

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike York L 0 1 5 1 1 0 23:14 1.00
Andreas Johansson L 1 0 2 0 0 +1 16:56 1.00
Theo Fleury R 0 1 6 2 1 0 27:07 0.93
Sandy McCarthy R 1 0 2 2 0 +1 12:51 0.90
Mikael Samuelsson R 0 1 0 0 1 +1 14:07 0.83
Dave Karpa D 0 1 0 3 2 0 22:30 0.73
Bryan Berard D 0 0 1 0 3 +1 18:47 0.23
Sylvain Lefebvre D 0 0 3 4 0 0 19:20 0.22
Petr Nedved C 0 0 1 0 2 0 18:29 0.18
Tomas Kloucek D 0 0 1 0 1 +1 15:43 0.13
Jeff Toms L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 12:11 0.10
Manny Malhotra C 0 0 0 0 0 0 3:07 0.00
Radek Dvorak R 0 0 0 1 1 0 19:35 0.00
Steve McKenna L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 0 0 0 0 5:22 0.00
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 0 2 2 0 0 6:33 0.00
Eric Lindros C 0 0 1 1 0 0 15:27 -0.08
Brian Leetch D 0 0 2 1 1 0 28:46 -0.10
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Richter L 31 28 3 .903 60:37 0.55

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Alex Kovalev R 0 2 5 1 0 +1 29:24 1.63
Milan Kraft C 1 1 1 1 0 0 9:23 1.45
Kris Beech C 1 1 3 2 0 -1 15:56 1.45
Jan Hrdina C 1 0 4 0 0 +1 25:32 1.00
Aleksey Morozov R 0 1 2 0 0 0 21:04 0.83
Randy Robitaille C 0 0 5 1 1 -1 23:45 0.28
Michal Rozsival D 0 0 2 1 2 0 23:02 0.25
Stephane Richer R 0 0 2 1 0 0 15:21 0.20
Janne Laukkanen D 0 0 3 2 2 -1 18:59 0.18
Eric Meloche R 0 0 0 2 2 0 7:59 0.10
Toby Petersen C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 9:27 0.00
Dan Lacouture L 0 0 0 3 0 0 6:34 0.00
Hans Jonsson D 0 0 0 1 0 0 13:02 0.00
Andrew Ference D 0 0 1 2 1 -1 13:31 -0.02
Ian Moran D 0 0 0 1 1 -1 18:38 -0.10
Shane Endicott C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 6:11 -0.15
Billy Tibbetts R 0 0 1 5 0 -2 7:12 -0.22
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 0 5 1 +1 22:37 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Johan Hedberg W 26 24 2 .923 60:37 0.90