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Thursday, December 26, 2002 · Madison Square Garden

Penguins 6 at Rangers 1

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 98OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins First Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG C 82OVR Jan Hrdina Coyotes Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG C 54OVR Michal Sivek Penguins Third Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 6:31 Mario Lemieux (18) Martin Straka (9), Jan Hrdina (16) · Slap PIT 1 – 0 NYR
  2. 13:20 Mark Messier (12) PPG Vladimir Malakhov (9) · Tip-in PIT 1 – 1 NYR
  3. 14:22 Jan Hrdina (13) PPG Alex Kovalev (26), Mario Lemieux (44) · Tip-in PIT 2 – 1 NYR
  4. 16:46 Steve McKenna (2) PPG Milan Kraft (4), Michal Sivek (2) · Wrist PIT 3 – 1 NYR

2nd Period

  1. 8:07 Michal Sivek (1) Alex Kovalev (27), Hans Jonsson (1) · Wrist PIT 4 – 1 NYR
  2. 11:33 Michal Rozsival (2) Martin Straka (10), Mario Lemieux (45) · Wrist PIT 5 – 1 NYR

3rd Period

  1. 18:44 Wayne Primeau (3) Ville Nieminen (8) · Wrist PIT 6 – 1 NYR

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT +/- TOI GS
Mario Lemieux C 1 2 3 0 +2 19:05 2.53
Jan Hrdina C 1 1 1 0 +1 18:01 1.60
Michal Sivek C 1 1 1 0 +1 13:25 1.60
Martin Straka C 0 2 1 0 +2 18:51 1.48
Alex Kovalev R 0 2 0 0 +1 17:11 1.40
Steve McKenna L 1 0 2 0 +1 8:57 1.05
Michal Rozsival D 1 0 2 0 +2 20:18 1.05
Hans Jonsson D 0 1 1 0 +2 22:05 1.00
Wayne Primeau C 1 0 3 0 +1 13:15 0.98
Milan Kraft C 0 1 2 0 +1 12:41 0.93
Ville Nieminen L 0 1 0 1 +1 12:53 0.78
Jamie Pushor D 0 0 0 0 +2 16:35 0.30
Marc Bergevin D 0 0 0 0 +2 19:36 0.30
Kent Manderville C 0 0 1 0 0 15:03 0.08
Shean Donovan R 0 0 0 0 0 14:24 0.00
Ian Moran D 0 0 2 0 0 19:49 -0.15
Dan Lacouture L 0 0 1 0 0 7:42 -0.22
Andrew Ference D 0 0 2 0 0 17:38 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Johan Hedberg W 12 11 1 .917 37:51 0.35
Jean-Sebastien Aubin — 12 12 0 1.000 21:57 1.20

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT +/- TOI GS
Mark Messier C 1 0 3 0 -1 18:24 0.83
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 1 3 0 -2 22:45 0.55
Dave Karpa D 0 0 2 0 0 9:47 0.15
Joel Bouchard D 0 0 2 0 0 22:36 0.15
Billy Tibbetts R 0 0 1 0 0 9:40 0.08
Sandy McCarthy R 0 0 0 0 0 5:14 0.00
Radek Dvorak R 0 0 2 0 -1 16:29 0.00
Ronald Petrovicky R 0 0 2 0 0 12:01 0.00
Jamie Lundmark C 0 0 1 0 -1 14:36 -0.08
Mikael Samuelsson R 0 0 3 0 -2 17:53 -0.08
Petr Nedved C 0 0 2 0 -1 20:36 -0.15
Bobby Holik C 0 0 1 2 -2 17:51 -0.22
Eric Lindros C 0 0 2 1 -2 23:39 -0.30
Tom Poti D 0 0 0 0 -2 23:08 -0.30
Darius Kasparaitis D 0 0 0 0 -1 18:34 -0.30
Cory Cross D 0 0 0 0 -1 11:01 -0.30
Richard Lintner D 0 0 0 0 -2 17:29 -0.30
Matthew Barnaby R 0 0 0 0 -1 9:58 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Dunham L 15 10 5 .667 33:11 -2.75
Dan Blackburn — 7 6 1 .857 26:49 -0.15