Montréal Canadiens vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Monday, November 21, 1988 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the New York Rangers 4–2 on Monday, November 21, 1988 at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers outshot the Canadiens 31–25.
Goals came from Mats Naslund, Guy Lafleur, Russ Courtnall, Chris Chelios, Tomas Sandstrom and Guy Carbonneau.
Scoring
1st period
Mats Naslund (7)Mike Keane (4), Bobby Smith (11)1–016:02 MTL
Guy Lafleur (5)Marcel Dionne (11), Tony Granato (5)1–116:22 NYR
2nd period
Russ Courtnall (4)Shayne Corson (7), Chris Chelios (19)2–108:51 MTL ·
3rd period
Chris Chelios (2)Bobby Smith (12), Mike Keane (5)3–110:09 MTL · 
Tomas Sandstrom (6)Jason Lafreniere (4), Norm MacIver (5)3–210:38 NYR
Guy Carbonneau (6)Chris Chelios (20)4–219:54 MTL ·
Team stats
MTLNYR
2531
0%0%
2/30/4
2510
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 8:20 into the first period
Marcel Dionne · holding2 min - 10:13 into the first period
Mats Naslund · interference2 min - 6:54 into the second periodTony Granato · hooking2 min
- 12:18 into the second periodBrent Gilchrist · cross checking2 min
- 16:36 into the second periodShayne Corson · charging2 min
- 16:36 into the second periodShayne Corson · spearing5 min
- 16:36 into the second periodShayne Corson · game misconduct10 min
- 16:36 into the second periodMichel Petit · high sticking2 min
- 2:06 into the third periodBob Gainey · hooking2 min
- 8:21 into the third periodMichel Petit · interference2 min
- 16:25 into the third periodChris Chelios · high sticking2 min
- 16:25 into the third periodBrian Mullen · high sticking2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.