Florida Panthers vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Saturday, December 13, 1997 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The New York Islanders beat the Florida Panthers 4–1 on Saturday, December 13, 1997 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Islanders outshot the Panthers 27–24.
Goals came from Claude Lapointe, Ed Jovanovski, Ken Belanger, Todd Bertuzzi and Bryan Smolinski.
Scoring
1st period
Claude Lapointe (7)Paul Kruse (1), Scott Lachance (4)0–107:39 NYI
Ed Jovanovski (4)David Nemirovsky (5), Kirk Muller (10)1–119:51 FLA ·
2nd period
Ken Belanger (1)Travis Green (10), Mike Hough (5)1–205:51 NYI
3rd period
Todd Bertuzzi (5)Tom Chorske (10)1–302:55 NYI
Bryan Smolinski (6)Unassisted1–406:37 NYI
Team stats
FLANYI
2427
56%44%
1/60/5
1012
1526
1014
1514
321
Penalties
- 1:49 into the first period
Travis Green · holding2 min - 4:35 into the first period
Paul Laus · interference obstruction2 min - 8:17 into the first periodKirk Muller · roughing2 min
- 10:39 into the first periodBryan McCabe · interference2 min
- 19:17 into the first periodSergei Nemchinov · hooking2 min
- 1:52 into the second periodSteve Washburn · interference2 min
- 10:45 into the second periodBryan McCabe · interference2 min
- 13:54 into the second periodRich Pilon · roughing2 min
- 16:39 into the second periodEd Jovanovski · charging2 min
- 7:54 into the third periodRobert Reichel · hooking2 min
- 10:13 into the third periodRay Sheppard · holding obstruction2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.