Pittsburgh Penguins vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Tuesday, January 6, 1998 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The Pittsburgh Penguins beat the New York Islanders 4–2 on Tuesday, January 6, 1998 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Islanders outshot the Penguins 26–17.
Goals came from Stu Barnes, Kenny Jonsson, Rob Brown, Robert Reichel, Kevin Hatcher and Jiri Slegr.
Peter Skudra made 24 saves on 26 shots for the win; Eric Fichaud stopped 13 of 16.
Scoring
1st period
Stu Barnes (12)Kevin Hatcher (16), Fredrik Olausson (13)1–004:43 PIT · 
Kenny Jonsson (8)Robert Reichel (26), Ziggy Palffy (19)1–107:21 NYI
2nd period
Rob Brown (5)Robert Lang (3)2–109:36 PIT
Robert Reichel (17)Sergei Nemchinov (16)2–214:42 NYI
Kevin Hatcher (9)Ron Francis (32), Jaromir Jagr (29)3–219:08 PIT ·
3rd period
Jiri Slegr (4)Kevin Hatcher (17)4–219:41 PIT ·
Team stats
PITNYI
1726
53%47%
2/50/7
1612
2127
1710
1119
829
Penalties
- 3:52 into the first period
Rich Pilon · roughing2 min - 7:58 into the first periodPaul Kruse · roughing2 min
- 9:35 into the first period
Kevin Hatcher · tripping obstruction2 min - 11:50 into the first periodJiri Slegr · holding obstruction2 min
- 15:48 into the first periodRobert Lang · holding obstruction2 min
- 16:09 into the first periodAndreas Johansson · slashing2 min
- 19:17 into the first periodClaude Lapointe · slashing2 min
- 5:14 into the second periodTodd Bertuzzi · slashing2 min
- 9:56 into the second periodRob Brown · tripping obstruction2 min
- 18:29 into the second periodRich Pilon · roughing2 min
- 18:29 into the second periodTodd Bertuzzi · charging2 min
- 18:29 into the second periodChris Tamer · roughing2 min
- 1:24 into the third periodJiri Slegr · hooking obstruction2 min
- 8:45 into the third periodKevin Hatcher · cross checking2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 24:51 |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24:10 |
| 14Stu BarnesC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21:07 |
| 20Robert LangC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:45 |
| 44Rob BrownR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 16:06 |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 22:06 |
| 23Fredrik OlaussonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 18:38 |
| 71Jiri SlegrD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15:22 |
| 15Robert DomeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:27 |
| 29Tyler WrightC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 08:55 |
| 33Alex HicksL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:36 |
| 38Andreas JohanssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 05:52 |
| 57Chris FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 05:04 |
| 95Aleksey MorozovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:39 |
| 2Chris TamerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:23 |
| 5Brad WerenkaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 25:20 |
| 11Darius KasparaitisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 19:41 |
| 24Ian MoranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:55 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Peter SkudraG | W | 26 | 2 | .923 |
| 31Ken WreggetG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Islanders
| 21Robert ReichelC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 24:55 |
| 16Ziggy PalffyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 25:49 |
| 17Sergei NemchinovL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 20:31 |
| 29Kenny JonssonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 27:13 |
| 13Claude LapointeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:09 |
| 14Tom ChorskeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:33 |
| 15Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:11 |
| 18Mike HoughL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:24 |
| 24Paul KruseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:10 |
| 25Mariusz CzerkawskiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:35 |
| 33Ken BelangerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:13 |
| 36Dane JacksonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 05:40 |
| 44Todd BertuzziR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:29 |
| 2Rich PilonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 14:12 |
| 4Bryan McCabeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 20:22 |
| 6Doug HoudaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 07:40 |
| 7Scott LachanceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 22:28 |
| 34Bryan BerardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 26:25 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Eric FichaudG | L | 16 | 3 | .813 |
| 35Tommy SaloG | 0 | 0 | – |