NY Rangers at New Jersey

Period 1
1. NEW JERSEY, ELIAS 29 (SYKORA, STEVENSON), 10:22
2. NEW JERSEY, ELIAS 30 (UNASSISTED), 11:12

PENALTIES: J. SLEGR NJD (ELBOWING, Minor, Game Misconduct) 07:08 (Served by Ryan Smyth), D. KARPA NYR (ROUGHING, Minor) 13:39, T. STEVENSON NJD (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 13:39, P. SVOBODA NYR (ELBOWING, Minor) 19:45, A. ZHAMNOV NJD (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 19:45

Period 2
3. NEW JERSEY, NYLANDER 10 (ELIAS, ZHAMNOV) (PP), 07:59
4. NEW JERSEY, ELIAS 31 (NEMCHINOV, MIRONOV), 18:47

PENALTIES: B. LEETCH NYR (ELBOWING, Minor) 01:44, P. POPOVIC NJD (CHARGING, Minor) 01:44, P. SYKORA NJD (ROUGHING, Minor) 01:51, M. GROSEK NYR (ROUGHING, Minor) 03:43, P. SVOBODA NYR (HIGHSTICKING, Major) 05:22, J. MARSHALL NYR (ELBOWING, Minor) 07:39, P. NEDVED NYR (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 13:22, S. LEFEBVRE NYR (CHARGING, Minor) 13:34, J. ARNOTT NJD (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor) 13:34, J. SPACEK NYR (ELBOWING, Minor, Misconduct) 17:01, J. ARNOTT NJD (CHARGING, Minor) 17:01

Period 3
5. NY RANGERS, NEDVED 23 (CIGER, LEETCH), 07:11
6. NEW JERSEY, ARNOTT 19 (NYLANDER, SALO), 07:55
7. NY RANGERS, NEDVED 24 (VARADA, MALAKHOV) (PP), 10:47
8. NEW JERSEY, SMYTH 34 (HORCOFF, SVOBODA), 13:47

PENALTIES: D. KARPA NYR (ROUGHING, Minor) 06:28, P. ELIAS NJD (CROSS-CHECKING, Major) 06:28, V. VARADA NYR (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 06:52, P. POPOVIC NJD (UNSPORTSMANLIKE-CONDUCT, Minor, Misconduct) 06:52, V. MALAKHOV NYR (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 10:46, R. DVORAK NYR (GOALIE INTERERENCE, Minor) 14:52, J. ARNOTT NJD (HIGHSTICKING, Minor) 14:52

Goalie Statistics

Nikolai Khabibulin (NYR), 20 saves out of 25 shots, L, 14-21-7
Guy Hebert (NYR), 2 saves out of 3 shots
Martin Brodeur (NJD), 16 saves out of 18 shots, W, 30-17-2

Power Play Conversions

NY Rangers 1 for 3
New Jersey 1 for 5

Game Stars

1 - Patrik Elias (NJD)
2 - Petr Nedved (NYR)
3 - Mikael Nylander (NJD)

Player Statistics

NY Rangers G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Igor Ulanov 0 0 0 Even 0 1 2 22 Brian Leetch 0 1 1 +1 2 0 0 21 Jason Marshall 0 0 0 Even 2 0 1 5 Ian Laperriere 0 0 0 -2 0 1 2 18 Jaroslav Spacek 0 0 0 -2 12 1 2 19 Vaclav Varada 0 1 1 -3 2 3 6 17 Dave Karpa 0 0 0 Even 4 0 1 6 Petr Svoboda 0 0 0 -2 7 1 1 13 Mark Messier 0 0 0 -2 0 1 0 14 Michal Grosek 0 0 0 -1 2 2 1 24 Petr Nedved 2 0 2 Even 2 3 0 28 Radek Dvorak 0 0 0 Even 2 2 1 20 Zdeno Ciger 0 1 1 -3 0 2 0 34 Sandy Mccarthy 0 0 0 -1 0 0 1 9 Sylvain Lefebvre 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 9 Nils Ekman 0 0 0 Even 0 0 0 1 Darren Van Impe 0 0 0 -3 0 1 2 18 Vladimir Malakhov 0 1 1 -1 2 0 0 10

New Jersey G A P +/- PIM S HT IT ------------------------------------------------- Alexei Zhamnov 0 1 1 Even 2 2 1 20 Mikael Nylander 1 1 2 +1 0 2 1 25 Boris Mironov 0 1 1 +1 0 1 1 24 Sami Salo 0 1 1 +1 0 0 1 24 Jason Arnott 1 0 1 +2 6 1 0 15 Steve Poapst 0 0 0 Even 0 0 1 16 Peter Popovic 0 0 0 Even 14 0 0 9 Ken Daneyko 0 0 0 +2 0 0 2 14 Patrik Elias 3 1 4 +2 5 8 0 21 Petr Sykora 0 1 1 +2 2 2 0 22 Dave Andreychuk 0 0 0 +1 0 4 0 15 Ryan Smyth 1 0 1 +1 0 3 3 24 Scott Niedermayer 0 0 0 +2 0 1 4 19 Peter Svoboda 0 1 1 +2 0 1 3 9 Sergei Nemchinov 0 1 1 Even 0 1 1 5 Turner Stevenson 0 1 1 +2 2 2 1 12 Jiri Slegr 0 0 0 Even 12 0 0 3 Shawn Horcoff 0 1 1 +1 0 0 0 10

Financial

Attendance: 18342
Net Profit: $962 955,00

Game Notes

Nils Ekman injured at 07:08 of the 1st Period
Jiri Slegr ejected at 07:08 of the 1st Period
Guy Hebert enters game at 07:55 of 3rd period
Patrik Elias scores a hat trick

Minor League Box Score

Hartford       2
Albany Riv     3
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Mikael Samuelsson 11 (Jeff Toms, Derek Armstrong)
unknown (Matthew Herr, Colin Forbes)

Kai Nurminen 17 (Ed Ward, John Emmons)
Pierre Dagenais 28 (unknown, unknown)
Jim Mckenzie 18 (Ted Drury, Mike Jefferson)

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Goalies
Hartford: Vitali Yeremeyev
Albany Riv: John Vanbiesbrouck
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