New York Rangers vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Thursday, October 30, 1997 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The New York Islanders beat the New York Rangers 5–3 on Thursday, October 30, 1997 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Islanders outshot the Rangers 32–26.
Brian Leetch scored twice. Sergei Nemchinov, Tim Sweeney, Bryan Smolinski, Travis Green, Bryan Berard and Scott Lachance also scored.
Tommy Salo made 23 saves on 26 shots for the win; Mike Richter stopped 14 of 18.
Scoring
1st period
Sergei Nemchinov (2)Kenny Jonsson (6)0–101:43 NYI · 
Tim Sweeney (1)Bill Berg (1), Mike Eastwood (1)1–109:52 NYR
Brian Leetch (2)Wayne Gretzky (10), Niklas Sundstrom (9)2–117:58 NYR
2nd period
Bryan Smolinski (3)Robert Reichel (12), Mariusz Czerkawski (4)2–204:58 NYI
Travis Green (4)Bryan Berard (7)2–309:17 NYI · 
Bryan Berard (7)Travis Green (3), Ziggy Palffy (6)2–409:52 NYI ·
3rd period
- Brian Leetch (3)Mike Eastwood (2), Darren Langdon (1)3–411:24 NYR
Scott Lachance (1)Bryan Smolinski (4), Mariusz Czerkawski (5)3–513:22 NYI ·
Team stats
NYRNYI
2632
56%44%
0/63/7
3534
1115
106
814
1314
Penalties
- 0:45 into the first period
Travis Green · cross checking2 min - 7:59 into the first periodKen Belanger · fighting5 min
- 7:59 into the first period
Darren Langdon · fighting5 min - 8:06 into the first periodPaul Kruse · fighting5 min
- 8:06 into the first periodPaul Kruse · misconduct10 min
- 8:06 into the first periodRyan Vandenbussche · fighting5 min
- 10:51 into the first periodAlexander Karpovtsev · interference obstruction2 min
- 12:37 into the first periodTravis Green · holding stick obstruction2 min
- 15:49 into the first periodMike Eastwood · tripping obstruction2 min
- 1:06 into the second periodKenny Jonsson · interference obstruction2 min
- 8:49 into the second periodBryan McCabe · roughing2 min
- 8:49 into the second periodJeff Beukeboom · roughing2 min
- 8:49 into the second periodJeff Beukeboom · spearing5 min
- 8:49 into the second periodJeff Beukeboom · game misconduct10 min
- 14:34 into the second periodRich Pilon · charging2 min
- 15:06 into the second periodBryan McCabe · tripping obstruction2 min
- 12:54 into the third periodNiklas Sundstrom · hooking obstruction2 min
- 14:12 into the third periodMike Hough · holding stick obstruction2 min
- 16:28 into the third periodKevin Stevens · cross checking2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 32Mike EastwoodC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 1 | 12:41 |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 17:11 |
| 15Darren LangdonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 06:43 |
| 18Bill BergL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 12:01 |
| 24Niklas SundstromR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 20:37 |
| 37Tim SweeneyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 11:54 |
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 24:51 |
| 8Ryan VandenbusscheR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 01:29 |
| 12Mike KeaneR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:57 |
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 20:30 |
| 17Kevin StevensL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 19:19 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:04 |
| 36Pierre SevignyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 08:03 |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21:19 |
| 23Jeff BeukeboomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 08:57 |
| 25Alexander KarpovtsevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 24:36 |
| 26Jeff FinleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 11:10 |
| 33Bruce DriverD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 19:38 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Jason MuzzattiG | 14 | 1 | .929 | |
| 35Mike RichterG | L | 18 | 4 | .778 |
New York Islanders
| 15Bryan SmolinskiC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 14:25 |
| 25Mariusz CzerkawskiR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11:31 |
| 39Travis GreenC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 4 | 22:19 |
| 34Bryan BerardD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −3 | 3 | 20:28 |
| 16Ziggy PalffyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 23:21 |
| 17Sergei NemchinovL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 20:33 |
| 21Robert ReichelC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 17:20 |
| 7Scott LachanceD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 23:51 |
| 29Kenny JonssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 22:13 |
| 13Claude LapointeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:29 |
| 14Tom ChorskeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 13:00 |
| 18Mike HoughL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 11:48 |
| 24Paul KruseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 03:19 |
| 33Ken BelangerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:08 |
| 44Todd BertuzziR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:08 |
| 2Rich PilonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 15:12 |
| 4Bryan McCabeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:49 |
| 28Dennis VaskeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 19:14 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Eric FichaudG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Tommy SaloG | W | 26 | 3 | .885 |