NewJersey at Pittsburgh

Shots
123OTT
NewJersey 9 8 6 0 23
Pittsburgh 7 17 3 0 27
Goals
123OTT
NewJersey 1 1 0 0 2
Pittsburgh 2 2 0 0 4


Scoring Summary


Period 1
1. PITTSBURGH, KOVALEV 6 (PRIMEAU, NIEDERMAYER), 01:03
2. NEWJERSEY, THOMAS 17 (JOHANSSON, SWEENEY), 08:13
3. PITTSBURGH, LINDEN 21 (KECZMER, WALKER), 10:33

PENALTIES: D. MANSON PIT (HOOKING, Minor) 05:34

Period 2
4. PITTSBURGH, KOVALEV 7 (PRIMEAU, LAFONTAINE), 05:23
5. NEWJERSEY, JOHANSSON 13 (YZERMAN, MACINNIS), 10:56
6. PITTSBURGH, LEACH 9 (KECZMER, MANSON), 18:04



Period 3
NO SCORING

PENALTIES: E. TIKKANEN NJD (CROSS-CHECKING, Minor) 09:30, Z. CIGER NJD (HOOKING, Minor) 14:02, B. MARCHMENT PIT (CHARGING, Double Minor) 18:20

Goalie Statistics

Evgeni Nabokov (NJD), 23 saves out of 27 shots, L, 19-28-4
Tommy Salo (PIT), 21 saves out of 23 shots, W, 18-22-3

Power Play Conversions

NewJersey 0 for 2
Pittsburgh 0 for 2

Game Stars

1 - Alexei Kovalev (PIT)
2 - Trevor Linden (PIT)
3 - Keith Primeau (PIT)

Player Statistics

NewJersey

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Sylvain Cote          0  0  0    -1   0  2   2 20
Valery Zelepukin      0  0  0    -1   0  2   0 24
Steve Thomas          1  0  1  Even   0  3   0 12
Esa Tikkanen          0  0  0  Even   2  2   1 14
Calle Johansson       1  1  2  Even   0  3   0 22
Eric Desjardins       0  0  0    -1   0  1   0 24
Kirk Muller           0  0  0  Even   0  1   0 13
Don Sweeney           0  1  1  Even   0  2   0 24
Steve Yzerman         0  1  1    -1   0  0   0 19
Yves Racine           0  0  0    -1   0  0   0 12
Donald Audette        0  0  0    -1   0  3   3 22
Josef Beranek         0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  6
Zdeno Ciger           0  0  0    -1   2  0   1 16
Doug Gilmour          0  0  0    -1   0  0   0 22
Denis Savard          0  0  0  Even   0  1   0  6
Paul Ysebaert         0  0  0  Even   0  0   0  6
Al MacInnis           0  1  1    -1   0  1   0 18
German Titov          0  0  0    -1   0  2   3 16
   
Pittsburgh

                      G  A  P   +/- PIM  S  HT IT
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Boris Mironov         0  0  0    -1   0  0   0  2
Alexei Kovalev        2  0  2    +2   0  2   1 16
Cam Neely             0  0  0    -2   0  1   2 20
Brian Savage          0  0  0    +1   0  2   0 13
Trevor Linden         1  0  1    +2   0  6   2 24
Pat Lafontaine        0  1  1    +1   0  7   0 21
Dan Keczmer           0  2  2    +2   0  2   2 22
Steve Leach           1  0  1    +1   0  1   0  7
Dave Manson           0  1  1    -1   2  0   1 23
Bryan Marchment       0  0  0    -1   4  0   3 16
Jason Woolley         0  0  0    +2   0  1   2 20
Keith Primeau         0  2  2    +2   0  3   2 21
Francis Lessard       0  0  0  Even   0  0   1  8
Vincent Damphousse    0  0  0    -1   0  0   1 19
Jyrki Lumme           0  0  0    +1   0  1   1 16
Scott Niedermayer     0  1  1    +2   0  0   1 17
Mark Recchi           0  0  0    -1   0  0   0 18
Scott Walker          0  1  1    +1   0  1   2 13
   

Financial

Attendance: 18000
Net Profit: $378,000.00

Game Notes


Minor League Box Score

Utica          3
Cleveland      2
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Markus Naslund 29 (Geoff Sanderson, Rene Corbet)
Trevor Letowski 18 (Andrei Nikolishin, John Madden)
Rene Corbet 15 (Peter Ferraro, Blake Sloan)

Bill Lindsay 15 (Derian Hatcher, Vitali Yachmenev)
Bill Lindsay 16 (David Vyborny, Shawn Horcoff)

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Goalies
Utica: Andrew Raycroft
Cleveland: Jocelyn Thibault
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