Boston Bruins vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Wednesday, January 21, 1998 · Centre Molson
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 4–2 on Wednesday, January 21, 1998 at Centre Molson. The Canadiens outshot the Bruins 33–19.
Goals came from Stephane Quintal, Anson Carter, Patrice Brisebois, Sergei Samsonov, Patrick Poulin and Martin Rucinsky.
Jocelyn Thibault made 17 saves on 19 shots for the win; Byron Dafoe stopped 29 of 33.
Scoring
1st period
Stephane Quintal (5)Martin Rucinsky (22), Brian Savage (12)0–111:49 MTL
Anson Carter (6)Kyle McLaren (11), Don Sweeney (12)1–112:43 BOS
Patrice Brisebois (3)Benoit Brunet (7), Saku Koivu (32)1–213:28 MTL
Sergei Samsonov (8)Dmitri Khristich (17), Jason Allison (28)2–218:21 BOS
2nd period
Patrick Poulin (3)Vincent Damphousse (26)2–319:02 MTL ·
3rd period
Martin Rucinsky (16)Unassisted2–404:44 MTL
Team stats
BOSMTL
1933
61%39%
0/20/4
1219
2324
1010
1621
31
Penalties
- 15:47 into the first period
Mike Sullivan · holding obstruction2 min - 3:16 into the second period
Patrick Poulin · tripping obstruction2 min - 8:01 into the second periodMike Sullivan · holding obstruction2 min
- 12:25 into the second periodDarren Van Impe · hooking2 min
- 17:17 into the second periodMartin Rucinsky · slashing2 min
- 6:48 into the third periodDave Ellett · roughing2 min
- 6:48 into the third periodDave Ellett · slashing2 min
- 6:48 into the third periodDave Ellett · slashing2 min
- 6:48 into the third periodValeri Bure · slashing5 min
- 6:48 into the third periodValeri Bure · game misconduct10 min
Season series
Boston Bruins
| 12Dmitri KhristichR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 18:00 |
| 14Sergei SamsonovL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 5 | 15:10 |
| 33Anson CarterR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:21 |
| 41Jason AllisonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | 18:12 |
| 18Kyle McLarenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 27:23 |
| 32Don SweeneyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22:31 |
| 6Joe ThorntonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 07:57 |
| 11P.J. AxelssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 19:05 |
| 19Rob DiMaioR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:54 |
| 21Ted DonatoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 13:15 |
| 22Ken BaumgartnerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:33 |
| 23Steve HeinzeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 14:06 |
| 26Tim TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 17:56 |
| 42Mike SullivanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:16 |
| 20Darren Van ImpeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:47 |
| 37Mattias TimanderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:19 |
| 44Dave EllettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 24:12 |
| 77Ray BourqueD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 16:40 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Byron DafoeG | L | 33 | 4 | .879 |
| 35Robbie TallasG | 0 | 0 | – |
Montréal Canadiens
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 17:37 |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 18:34 |
| 17Benoit BrunetL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 18:21 |
| 25Vincent DamphousseC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 2 | 19:44 |
| 37Patrick PoulinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13:34 |
| 49Brian SavageL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 15:08 |
| 5Stephane QuintalD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21:05 |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 22:38 |
| 8Mark RecchiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 8 | 21:22 |
| 20Valeri BureR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 13:07 |
| 23Turner StevensonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:20 |
| 24Scott ThorntonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:10 |
| 28Marc BureauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 13:58 |
| 71Sebastien BordeleauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 04:54 |
| 22Dave MansonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 25:32 |
| 34Peter PopovicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:15 |
| 38Vladimir MalakhovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 2 | 23:48 |
| 55Igor UlanovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 04:24 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Andy MoogG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Jocelyn ThibaultG | W | 19 | 2 | .895 |