1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
NY Rangers	2	1	1	4
Pittsburgh	2	3	1	6

First Period: Scoring: 1, NY Rangers, Dvorak 18 (Hlavac, Nedved), 0:25. 2, Pittsburgh, Kovalev 37 (Straka), 14:43. 3, NY Rangers, Messier 19 (shorthanded) (unassisted), 17:26. 4, Pittsburgh, Kovalev 38 (power play) (Stevens, Jagr), 18:44. Penalties: Butenschon, Pit (hooking), 9:03; Lacroix, Nyr (tripping), 17:08.
Second Period: Scoring: 5, Pittsburgh, Lemieux 22 (power play) (Kovalev, Straka), 3:50. 6, Pittsburgh, J Beranek 7 (Primeau, Hrdina), 6:43. 7, NY Rangers, Leetch 15 (power play) (Messier, Graves), 11:52. 8, Pittsburgh, Kovalev 39 (Lang, Straka), 12:28. Penalties: Kamensky, Nyr (hooking), 2:29; Mccarthy, Nyr (fighting major), 6:56; Oliwa, Pit (fighting major), 6:56; Boughner, Pit (holding), 11:01.
Third Period: Scoring: 9, Pittsburgh, Straka 22 (Kovalev, Butenschon), 0:46. 10, NY Rangers, Kamensky 12 (power play) (Leetch, Graves), 4:05. Penalties: Stevens, Pit (interference), 3:09; Kamensky, Nyr (roughing), 9:20; Fleury, Nyr (slashing), 17:00.

SHOTS ON GOAL

NY Rangers		12	8	7	--27
Pittsburgh		12	13	7	--32

Power-play Conversions: Nyr - 2 of 3, Pit - 2 of 4. Goalies: NY Rangers, Yeremeyev (32 shots, 26 saves; record: 0-3-0). Pittsburgh, J Aubin (27, 23; record: 16-10-0). A:17,148. Referees: P Devorski, Marouelli. Linesmen: Mcelman, Scapinello.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

New York					Pittsburgh
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
B Brown Dvorak Fleury Graves Gusarov Hlavac Johnsson Kamensky Lacroix Leetch Lefebvre M Malhotra Mccarthy Messier Nedved Pilon Ulmer York	0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0	0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0	even -2 even +1 -2 -2 -2 -1 even even even even -1 +1 -2 even even -1	1 1 2 3 0 3 1 3 0 5 1 0 0 4 0 1 0 2	Boughner Butenschon Ference Hrdina J Beranek Jagr Kasparaitis Kovalev Lang Laukkanen Lemieux Mckenna Melichar Oliwa Primeau Stevens Straka Tibbetts	0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0	0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0	+1 +2 even +1 +1 -1 +2 +1 +1 even -1 even +1 even +1 even +1 even	2 3 0 1 3 1 1 5 2 1 3 1 1 1 0 3 3 1