NY Rangers at New Jersey

Period 1
1. NEW JERSEY, SYKORA 33 (ELIAS, NIEDERMAYER), 00:32
2. NY RANGERS, GROSEK 7 (LAPERRIERE, LEFEBVRE), 03:29
3. NY RANGERS, ULANOV 8 (LEETCH, DVORAK), 10:09

PENALTIES: S. SALO NJD (ELBOWING, Minor) 00:33, P. ELIAS NJD (ROUGHING, Minor) 07:19, R. DVORAK NYR (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 10:08

Period 2
4. NY RANGERS, VARADA 22 (IMPE, MESSIER) (PP), 04:37
5. NY RANGERS, VARADA 23 (SPACEK, MESSIER), 19:03

PENALTIES: I. ULANOV NYR (ELBOWING, Minor) 00:20, J. ARNOTT NJD (ELBOWING, Minor) 03:39, D. KARPA NYR (HOOKING, Minor) 06:40

Period 3
6. NY RANGERS, MESSIER 12 (SPACEK, VARADA), 02:40

PENALTIES: I. LAPERRIERE NYR (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 03:55, Z. CIGER NYR (CROSS-CHECKING, Major) 04:34

Goalie Statistics

Nikolai Khabibulin (NYR), 30 saves out of 31 shots, W, 19-26-9
Milan Hnilicka (NJD), 3 saves out of 3 shots
Martin Brodeur (NJD), 19 saves out of 24 shots, L, 33-21-4

Power Play Conversions

NY Rangers 1 for 3
New Jersey 0 for 5

Game Stars

1 - Vaclav Varada (NYR)
2 - Nikolai Khabibulin (NYR)
3 - Mark Messier (NYR)

Player Statistics

NY Rangers G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Igor Ulanov 1 0 1 Even 2 1 4 22 Brian Leetch 0 1 1 Even 0 1 4 25 Ian Laperriere 0 1 1 +1 2 0 5 15 Jaroslav Spacek 0 2 2 +2 0 1 2 24 Nolan Pratt 0 0 0 +2 0 0 1 5 Vaclav Varada 2 1 3 +2 0 4 2 16 Dave Karpa 0 0 0 +1 2 0 1 16 Mark Messier 1 2 3 +2 0 1 1 21 Michal Grosek 1 0 1 +1 0 4 3 16 Petr Nedved 0 0 0 Even 0 4 1 24 Radek Dvorak 0 1 1 Even 2 3 1 20 Zdeno Ciger 0 0 0 Even 5 3 0 22 Sandy Mccarthy 0 0 0 +1 0 1 0 8 Sylvain Lefebvre 0 1 1 +1 0 0 3 9 Nils Ekman 0 0 0 +2 0 2 2 20 Tomas Kloucek 0 0 0 Even 0 0 2 5 Darren Van Impe 0 1 1 Even 0 2 0 11 Vladimir Malakhov 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 8

New Jersey G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Mikael Nylander 0 0 0 -1 0 3 1 25 Boris Mironov 0 0 0 -2 0 5 0 21 Sami Salo 0 0 0 Even 2 1 3 18 Jason Arnott 0 0 0 +1 2 3 1 19 Peter Popovic 0 0 0 Even 0 0 2 8 Ken Daneyko 0 0 0 -1 0 0 2 15 Patrik Elias 0 1 1 Even 2 0 6 23 Petr Sykora 1 0 1 Even 0 4 0 24 Ville Peltonen 0 0 0 Even 0 2 1 8 Dave Andreychuk 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 11 Ryan Smyth 0 0 0 -3 0 1 2 21 Scott Niedermayer 0 1 1 Even 0 6 1 21 Jay Mckee 0 0 0 -1 0 0 4 12 Peter Svoboda 0 0 0 Even 0 1 1 5 Sergei Nemchinov 0 0 0 -1 0 2 0 11 Turner Stevenson 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 16 Jiri Slegr 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 19 Shawn Horcoff 0 0 0 -2 0 1 1 18

Financial

Attendance: 18095
Net Profit: $1 139 985,00

Game Notes

Milan Hnilicka enters game at 02:40 of 3rd period

Minor League Box Score

Hartford       0
Albany Riv     4
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unknown (Frank Musil, Mike Jefferson)
Pierre Dagenais 30 (Ed Ward, Jim Mckenzie)
Stanislav Gron 14 (Ted Drury, unknown)
Frank Musil 10 (Mathieu Biron, Steve Poapst)

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Goalies
Hartford: Mike Richter
Albany Riv: John Vanbiesbrouck
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