1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
NY Rangers	1	2	2	5
Washington	2	0	1	3

First Period: Scoring: 1, Washington, Simon 1 (power play) (Yake, Oates), 12:03. 2, NY Rangers, Kamensky 5 (Messier, B Brown), 15:47. 3, Washington, Bondra 6 (unassisted), 15:53. Penalties: Yake, Was (tripping), 2:26; Graves, Nyr (interference), 2:45; Simon, Was (tripping), 5:06; Lefebvre, Nyr (interference), 10:50.
Second Period: Scoring: 4, NY Rangers, York 4 (Lacroix), 2:04. 5, NY Rangers, Fleury 12 (power play) (Leetch, Nedved), 18:12. Penalties: Simon, Was ( double high sticking minor), 3:01; B Brown, Nyr (slashing), 9:04; Bondra, Was (goalie interference), 16:08; Reekie, Was (cross checking), 17:33; Graves, Nyr (roughing), 19:17; Reekie, Was (roughing), 19:17.
Third Period: Scoring: 6, NY Rangers, Hlavac 6 (Dvorak, Nedved), 1:39. 7, Washington, Nikolishin 5 (Zednik, Bondra), 15:29. 8, NY Rangers, Fleury 13 (shorthanded empty net) (Leetch), 19:32. Penalties: Mottau, Nyr (holding), 6:35; Pilon, Nyr (interference), 18:36.

SHOTS ON GOAL

NY Rangers		11	11	6	--28
Washington		14	6	10	--30

Power-play Conversions: Nyr - 1 of 6, Was - 1 of 5. Goalies: NY Rangers, Richter (30 shots, 27 saves; record: 5-2-0). Washington, Kolzig (27, 23; record: 3-7-2). A:15,186. Referees: Angus, S Walkom. Linesmen: Nowak, Seitz.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

New York					Washington
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
B Brown Dvorak Fleury Graves Grosek Hlavac Kamensky Lacroix Leetch Lefebvre Mccarthy Messier Mottau Nedved Pilon Purinton Taylor York	0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1	1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0	-1 +1 +1 -1 +1 +1 -1 +1 +2 +1 even -1 even +1 +1 +1 even +2	0 3 6 1 0 3 3 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 4	Berube Bondra Bulis Cote Dahlen Gonchar Halpern Klee Konowalchuk Nikolishin Oates Reekie Sacco Simon Witt Yake Zednik Zettler	0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0	0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0	even +1 -1 -1 -2 -1 -2 even -1 +2 -3 even even -3 even even +1 -1	1 4 0 0 4 3 1 0 1 4 1 3 0 4 1 0 3 0