Boston Bruins vs Florida Panthers
Regular season · Wednesday, November 26, 1997 · Miami Arena
Game summary
The Florida Panthers beat the Boston Bruins 10–5 on Wednesday, November 26, 1997 at Miami Arena. The Bruins outshot the Panthers 37–30.
Ray Whitney scored twice, Ray Sheppard scored a hat trick and David Nemirovsky scored twice. Sergei Samsonov, Tom Fitzgerald, Jason Allison, Dave Gagner, Steve Washburn, Dmitri Khristich, Tim Taylor and Dean Malkoc also scored.
John Vanbiesbrouck made 32 saves on 37 shots for the win; Byron Dafoe stopped 7 of 13.
Scoring
1st period
Sergei Samsonov (3)Dmitri Khristich (6), Ray Bourque (9)1–002:16 BOS
Tom Fitzgerald (4)Bill Lindsay (5), Chris Wells (4)1–107:02 FLA
Ray Whitney (7)Ed Jovanovski (3)1–209:25 FLA- Ray Whitney (8)Paul Laus (6)1–314:00 FLA
Ray Sheppard (4)Scott Mellanby (6), Steve Washburn (3)1–414:56 FLA
Jason Allison (8)Dmitri Khristich (7), Dave Ellett (8)2–419:44 BOS ·
2nd period
Dave Gagner (10)Kirk Muller (6), Terry Carkner (1)2–503:06 FLA
Steve Washburn (2)Ray Whitney (7), Scott Mellanby (7)2–604:34 FLA · 
Dmitri Khristich (8)Sergei Samsonov (6), Mattias Timander (1)3–605:33 BOS
Tim Taylor (8)Don Sweeney (5)4–612:13 BOS- Ray Sheppard (5)Scott Mellanby (8)4–716:11 FLA
David Nemirovsky (3)Johan Garpenlov (1)4–817:22 FLA
3rd period
- David Nemirovsky (4)Ray Whitney (8), Johan Garpenlov (2)4–907:36 FLA
- Ray Sheppard (6)Scott Mellanby (9), Terry Carkner (2)4–1009:56 FLA
Dean Malkoc (1)Tim Taylor (5), Rob DiMaio (10)5–1016:59 BOS
Team stats
BOSFLA
3730
45%55%
1/31/1
610
511
13
26
211
Penalties
- 16:05 into the first period
Bill Lindsay · hooking2 min - 18:29 into the first periodTom Fitzgerald · holding the stick2 min
- 4:25 into the second period
Hal Gill · holding obstruction2 min - 8:26 into the third periodRob DiMaio · elbowing2 min
- 8:26 into the third periodTim Taylor · roughing2 min
- 8:26 into the third periodPaul Laus · roughing2 min
- 8:26 into the third periodRhett Warrener · roughing2 min
- 17:42 into the third periodRobert Svehla · cross checking2 min
Season series
Boston Bruins
| 12Dmitri KhristichR | 1 | 2 | 3 | −3 | 3 | 24:42 |
| 14Sergei SamsonovL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 2 | 14:19 |
| 26Tim TaylorC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 19:28 |
| 19Rob DiMaioR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:49 |
| 41Jason AllisonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 20:21 |
| 29Dean MalkocD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14:50 |
| 32Don SweeneyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 19:22 |
| 37Mattias TimanderD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 10:00 |
| 44Dave EllettD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 26:21 |
| 77Ray BourqueD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 28:37 |
| 6Joe ThorntonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 08:22 |
| 16Randy RobitailleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 07:03 |
| 21Ted DonatoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 23:32 |
| 22Ken BaumgartnerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 08:47 |
| 42Mike SullivanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 12:48 |
| 57P.J. AxelssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 20:31 |
| 18Kyle McLarenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 06:36 |
| 75Hal GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 2 | 16:00 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Jim CareyG | 17 | 4 | .765 | |
| 34Byron DafoeG | L | 13 | 6 | .538 |
Florida Panthers
| 14Ray WhitneyL | 2 | 2 | 4 | +2 | 2 | 12:18 |
| 27Scott MellanbyR | 0 | 4 | 4 | +2 | 0 | 14:55 |
| 26Ray SheppardR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +2 | 5 | 14:29 |
| 22Steve WashburnC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 15:30 |
| 29Johan GarpenlovL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 13:33 |
| 51David NemirovskyR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 12:27 |
| 2Terry CarknerD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +6 | 1 | 20:08 |
| 9Kirk MullerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 13:45 |
| 11Bill LindsayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:10 |
| 15Dave GagnerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14:24 |
| 21Tom FitzgeraldR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 15:09 |
| 23Chris WellsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:43 |
| 3Paul LausD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | 16:01 |
| 55Ed JovanovskiD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 22:35 |
| 12Jody HullR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:11 |
| 5Gord MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 23:53 |
| 7Rhett WarrenerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 17:03 |
| 24Robert SvehlaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +6 | 1 | 19:51 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mark FitzpatrickG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 34John VanbiesbrouckG | W | 37 | 5 | .865 |