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BOS

TD GARDEN

3FINAL4

December 28, 1997

NYR

Scoring Summary

1st Period

Dmitri Khristich (14) (pp)

Jason Allison (26), Dave Ellett (10)

1-0 BOS

Score

07:21

Time

Wayne Gretzky (10)

Alex Kovalev (13), Johan Lindbom (3)

1-1 Tied

Score

14:42

Time

2nd Period

Dave Ellett (3)

Unassisted

2-1 BOS

Score

04:43

Time

Sergei Samsonov (5) (pp)

Ray Bourque (16), Cameron Mann (1)

3-1 BOS

Score

10:17

Time

Mike Keane (8)

Brian Skrudland (4)

3-2 BOS

Score

14:40

Time

3rd Period

Adam Graves (10)

Brian Leetch (14), Wayne Gretzky (26)

3-3 Tied

Score

03:34

Time

Brian Skrudland (5)

Bill Berg (5), Alexander Karpovtsev (7)

4-3 NYR

Score

19:37

Time

Penalties

1st Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	02:51	Ken Baumgartner – fighting (5 min)
	02:51	Darren Langdon – fighting (5 min)
	06:07	Kevin Stevens – interference (2 min)
	09:54	Dean Malkoc – fighting (5 min)
	09:54	Eric Cairns – fighting (5 min)
	16:27	Ken Baumgartner – roughing (2 min)
	16:27	Darren Langdon – roughing (2 min)
	16:46	Anson Carter – tripping (2 min)
	18:46	Brian Leetch – tripping (2 min)

2nd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	06:20	Tim Taylor – interference-goalkeeper (2 min)
	09:35	Ulf Samuelsson – holding-obstruction (2 min)
	09:35	Ulf Samuelsson – roughing (2 min)
	11:44	Steve Heinze – interference (2 min)

3rd Period

Team	Time	Penalty Description
	07:12	Alexander Karpovtsev – holding-the-stick (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	1	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	32	16:26	6	1	2	4
5	Ulf Samuelsson	D	0	0	0	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	30	24:49	6	3	0	2
9	Adam Graves	L	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	24	19:58	9	0	1	1
12	Mike Keane	R	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	23	19:08	1	1	1	0
15	Darren Langdon	L	0	0	0	-1	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	5	02:39	1	0	0	0
16	Pat LaFontaine	C	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	22	18:30	0	1	2	2
17	Kevin Stevens	L	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	18	16:28	5	0	3	2
18	Bill Berg	L	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	22	16:51	4	1	2	1
20	Brian Skrudland	C	1	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0/0	0.00%	23	14:57	0	1	3	2
21	Johan Lindbom	L	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	13	12:17	2	0	0	0
25	Alexander Karpovtsev	D	0	1	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	31	22:37	2	5	1	1
26	Jeff Finley	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	21	15:11	3	1	0	2
27	Alex Kovalev	R	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	11	11:09	1	0	5	3
29	Eric Cairns	D	0	0	0	-1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	8	04:57	0	0	0	0
33	Bruce Driver	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	21	16:20	1	0	3	3
37	Tim Sweeney	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	18	14:35	1	0	1	0
39	Vladimir Vorobiev	R	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	7	06:25	0	0	1	1
99	Wayne Gretzky	C	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0/0	0.00%	19	20:40	0	0	4	4

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	★	W				26	29	3	1	2	0	.897	3.01	59:50

BOS – Skaters
#	Player	Pos	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	1G	OTG	GWG	ENG	S	FO	FO%	Shifts	TOI	Hits	BLK	GV	TK
10	Cameron Mann	R	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	11	06:22	1	0	0	0
11	P.J. Axelsson	L	0	0	0	-2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%	21	18:20	2	0	1	0
12	Dmitri Khristich	R	1	0	1	-1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	21	21:17	2	0	4	1
14	Sergei Samsonov	L	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0/0	0.00%	17	13:07	0	0	0	0
18	Kyle McLaren	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	25	21:18	4	0	2	1
19	Rob Dimaio	R	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	18	17:40	1	1	0	1
20	Darren Van Impe	D	0	0	0	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	16	15:39	2	0	1	1
22	Ken Baumgartner	L	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	8	03:54	1	0	0	0
23	Steve Heinze	R	0	0	0	-1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	21	19:45	1	0	1	1
25	Hal Gill	D	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	8	07:00	1	0	0	0
26	Tim Taylor	C	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0/0	0.00%	22	17:44	4	1	0	2
29	Dean Malkoc	D	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	6	03:31	2	1	0	0
32	Don Sweeney	D	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	25	19:41	3	2	2	0
33	Anson Carter	R	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	18	14:38	1	0	0	0
41	Jason Allison	C	0	1	1	-1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0/0	0.00%	22	21:44	0	0	2	2
42	Mike Sullivan	C	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0/0	0.00%	19	14:39	4	0	1	0
44	Dave Ellett	D	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0/0	0.00%	24	25:42	4	4	3	3
77	Ray Bourque	D	0	1	1	-3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0/0	0.00%	28	31:44	2	0	1	4

BOS – Goalies
#	Player			1ST	2ND	3RD	SV	SA	GA	EV	PP	SH	SV%	GAA	TOI
34	Byron Dafoe	★	L				19	23	4	4	0	0	.826	4.04	59:27
35	Robbie Tallas						0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0.00	00:00

NYR

BOS

Game Stats

4	Goals	3
23	Shots	29
0.0% (0/4)	Power Play	40.0% (2/5)
22	Penalty Minutes	18
42	Hits	35
14	Blocks	9
29	Giveaways	18
28	Takeaways	16

Goals by Period

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

Shots by Period

	1	2	3	T
	8	11	10	29
	5	10	8	23

Season Series: 1-3-0

BOS 3

NYR 4

FINALBoxscoreDEC 28

BOS 4

NYR 2

FINALBoxscoreJAN 31

BOS 5

NYR 1

FINALBoxscoreMAR 14

BOS 4

NYR 2

FINALBoxscoreAPR 1

As of December 28, 1997

All-Time vs BOS

Overall: 229-263-98-6
At NYR: 137-106-55-3

Last 10 vs BOS

Overall: 6-3-1-0
At NYR: 4-6-0