Pittsburgh Penguins vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Monday, March 24, 1997 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3–0 on Monday, March 24, 1997 at Madison Square Garden. The Penguins outshot the Rangers 34–18.
Goals came from Bruce Driver, Mike Eastwood and Wayne Gretzky.
Mike Richter made 34 saves on 34 shots for the win; Patrick Lalime stopped 15 of 17.
Scoring
1st period
Bruce Driver (5)Wayne Gretzky (67), Patrick Flatley (12)0–104:58 NYR
2nd period
Mike Eastwood (2)Bill Berg (6), Alexander Karpovtsev (28)0–205:32 NYR
3rd period
Wayne Gretzky (23)Unassisted0–319:09 NYR ·
Team stats
PITNYR
3418
0%0%
0/30/2
46
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 12:31 into the first period
Neil Wilkinson · interference2 min - 14:59 into the first period
Dallas Eakins · interference2 min - 18:44 into the first periodDarren Langdon · boarding2 min
- 2:06 into the third periodNeil Wilkinson · interference2 min
- 14:34 into the third periodPatrick Flatley · tripping2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 7Joe MullenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 9Greg JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 14Stu BarnesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 15Josef BeranekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Joe DziedzicL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Roman OksiutaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Eddie OlczykR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 33Alex HicksL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 51Dave RocheL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 66Mario LemieuxC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 2Chris TamerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 6Neil WilkinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 22Jason WoolleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 23Fredrik OlaussonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 24Ian MoranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 28Craig MuniD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Philippe De RouvilleG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Patrick LalimeG | L | 17 | 2 | .882 |
New York Rangers
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 8Patrick FlatleyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 18Bill BergL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 32Mike EastwoodC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 25Alexander KarpovtsevD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 33Bruce DriverD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 9Adam GravesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 10Esa TikkanenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 11Mark MessierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Chris FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Darren LangdonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Russ CourtnallR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Shane ChurlaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Niklas SundstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 23Jeff BeukeboomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Dallas EakinsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Glenn HealyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Mike RichterG | W | 34 | 0 | 1.000 |