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FLA

TD GARDEN

4FINAL3

December 12, 1997

NYR

Scoring Summary

1st Period

Bruce Driver (3)

Kevin Stevens (11), Pat LaFontaine (22)

1-0 NYR

Score

02:38

Time

Radek Dvorak (1) (sh)

Chris Wells (5)

1-1 Tied

Score

13:37

Time

Radek Dvorak (2) (sh)

Steve Washburn (4)

2-1 FLA

Score

18:31

Time

2nd Period

David Nemirovsky (6)

Ray Whitney (14), Chris Wells (6)

3-1 FLA

Score

03:22

Time

Kevin Stevens (7)

Pat LaFontaine (23)

3-2 FLA

Score

07:48

Time

Terry Carkner (1)

Ryan Johnson (2)

4-2 FLA

Score

17:27

Time

3rd Period

Tim Sweeney (8)

Pat LaFontaine (24), Kevin Stevens (12)

4-3 FLA

Score

04:41

Time

Penalties

1st Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	09:25	Tim Sweeney – tripping (2 min)
	13:07	Paul Laus – interference-obstruction (2 min)
	17:35	Chris Wells – interference-obstruction (2 min)

2nd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	03:00	Paul Laus – fighting (5 min)
	03:00	Darren Langdon – fighting (5 min)
	03:51	Robert Svehla – interference-obstruction (2 min)
	09:44	Chris Wells – roughing (2 min)
	09:44	Alexander Karpovtsev – roughing (2 min)

3rd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	06:28	Kevin Stevens – roughing (2 min)
	08:30	Robert Svehla – interference-obstruction (2 min)

NYR – Skaters
#	Player	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	1G	OTG	GWG	ENG	S	FO	FO%	Shifts	TOI	Hits	BLK	GV	TK
2	Brian Leetch	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	31	16:31	4	3	9	5
5	Ulf Samuelsson	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	27	22:05	4	2	2	5
9	Adam Graves	L	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	23	22:45	4	0	4	3
12	Mike Keane	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	20	17:37	2	0	2	3
15	Darren Langdon	L	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	7	04:28	2	0	0	0
16	Pat LaFontaine	C	0	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	22	19:14	1	1	2	4
17	Kevin Stevens	L	1	2	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	19	17:05	3	0	2	3
20	Brian Skrudland	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	18	15:36	0	0	1	1
21	Johan Lindbom	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	19	14:55	1	0	2	1
23	Jeff Beukeboom	D	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	25	19:34	2	0	3	0
25	Alexander Karpovtsev	D	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	15	11:46	1	2	1	1
27	Alex Kovalev	R	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	9	08:03	0	0	0	1
29	Eric Cairns	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	11	08:39	2	0	1	0
32	Mike Eastwood	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	10	05:20	1	0	1	1
33	Bruce Driver	D	1	0	1	-1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%	26	22:48	0	2	1	2
37	Tim Sweeney	R	1	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	20	15:45	2	0	2	0
39	Vladimir Vorobiev	R	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	15	14:09	1	0	2	0
99	Wayne Gretzky	C	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	23	21:58	0	0	2	3

NYR – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
31	Jason Muzzatti						0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	00:00
35	Mike Richter	★	L				25	29	4	2	0	2	.862	4.05	59:12

FLA – Skaters
#	Player	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	1G	OTG	GWG	ENG	S	FO	FO%	Shifts	TOI	Hits	BLK	GV	TK
2	Terry Carkner	D	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0/0	0.00%	28	21:35	1	2	2	3
3	Paul Laus	D	0	0	0	-1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	16	11:37	1	2	0	0
5	Gord Murphy	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	27	24:28	2	4	1	1
7	Rhett Warrener	D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	21	17:11	0	0	5	2
9	Kirk Muller	L	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	18	14:33	0	2	2	0
11	Bill Lindsay	L	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	19	13:59	0	0	0	0
14	Ray Whitney	L	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	13	12:31	0	1	0	1
15	Dave Gagner	C	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	18	14:46	0	1	1	1
16	Ryan Johnson	C	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	13	10:42	0	0	0	0
19	Radek Dvorak	R	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	20	15:31	1	1	1	0
21	Tom Fitzgerald	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	21	14:19	3	0	2	3
22	Steve Washburn	C	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	19	16:13	0	1	1	1
23	Chris Wells	C	0	2	2	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	19	13:17	1	1	2	0
24	Robert Svehla	D	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	30	22:21	1	0	1	1
26	Ray Sheppard	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	18	17:23	0	0	4	2
27	Scott Mellanby	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	20	17:36	3	0	2	1
51	David Nemirovsky	R	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	13	10:57	0	0	2	2
55	Ed Jovanovski	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	23	21:35	6	3	2	1

FLA – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
30	Mark Fitzpatrick						0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	00:00
34	John Vanbiesbrouck	★	W				28	31	3	3	0	0	.903	3.00	60:00

NYR

FLA

Game Stats

3	Goals	4
31	Shots	29
0.0% (0/5)	Power Play	0.0% (0/2)
11	Penalty Minutes	15
30	Hits	19
10	Blocks	18
37	Giveaways	28
33	Takeaways	19

Goals by Period

	1	2	3	T
	2	2	0	4
	1	1	1	3

Shots by Period

	1	2	3	T
	12	13	4	29
	10	9	12	31

Season Series: 3-1-1

FLA 1

NYR 3

FINALBoxscoreNOV 18

FLA 1

NYR 1

FINAL OTBoxscoreNOV 30

FLA 4

NYR 3

FINALBoxscoreDEC 12

FLA 2

NYR 4

FINALBoxscoreDEC 17

FLA 3

NYR 4

FINALBoxscoreMAR 4

As of December 12, 1997

All-Time vs FLA

Overall: 9-9-5-0
At NYR: 4-4-4-0

Last 10 vs FLA

Overall: 2-5-3-0
At NYR: 2-4-4-0