New York Rangers vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Saturday, January 31, 1998 · FleetCenter
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the New York Rangers 4–2 on Saturday, January 31, 1998 at FleetCenter. The Bruins outshot the Rangers 31–17.
Goals came from Darren Langdon, Brian Leetch, Jason Allison, Hal Gill, Sergei Samsonov and Ray Bourque.
Byron Dafoe made 15 saves on 17 shots for the win; Mike Richter stopped 27 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Darren Langdon (2)Adam Graves (10), Mike Keane (8)1–000:46 NYR
Brian Leetch (13)Wayne Gretzky (40), Pat LaFontaine (34)2–014:36 NYR · 
Jason Allison (19)Darren Van Impe (7), Steve Heinze (8)2–119:38 BOS ·
3rd period
Hal Gill (2)Tim Taylor (9)2–200:32 BOS
Sergei Samsonov (10)Joe Thornton (2)2–305:35 BOS
Ray Bourque (9)Mike Sullivan (8)2–414:05 BOS
Team stats
NYRBOS
1731
46%54%
1/31/4
1311
1819
126
38
13
Penalties
- 12:48 into the first period
Tim Taylor · roughing2 min - 15:41 into the first periodKen Baumgartner · fighting5 min
- 15:41 into the first period
Darren Langdon · fighting5 min - 17:30 into the first periodPat LaFontaine · holding obstruction2 min
- 18:19 into the first periodMike Keane · high sticking2 min
- 4:05 into the second periodDmitri Khristich · high sticking2 min
- 12:11 into the second periodUlf Samuelsson · holding stick obstruction2 min
- 18:22 into the second periodPeter Ferraro · kneeing2 min
- 7:18 into the third periodDon Sweeney · tripping obstruction2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 9Adam GravesL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 21:44 |
| 12Mike KeaneR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:03 |
| 15Darren LangdonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 10:27 |
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | 16:14 |
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 21:25 |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 27:21 |
| 14Peter FerraroR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 13:32 |
| 17Kevin StevensL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 11:32 |
| 18Bill BergL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:55 |
| 20Brian SkrudlandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:30 |
| 21Johan LindbomL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:29 |
| 24Niklas SundstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:05 |
| 28P.J. StockC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:45 |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:24 |
| 23Jeff BeukeboomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:15 |
| 25Alexander KarpovtsevD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:51 |
| 26Jeff FinleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:39 |
| 33Bruce DriverD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 24:46 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Dan CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Mike RichterG | L | 31 | 4 | .871 |
Boston Bruins
| 6Joe ThorntonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 06:30 |
| 14Sergei SamsonovL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 12:22 |
| 23Steve HeinzeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:42 |
| 26Tim TaylorC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:41 |
| 41Jason AllisonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20:56 |
| 42Mike SullivanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12:03 |
| 20Darren Van ImpeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14:58 |
| 25Hal GillD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 19:25 |
| 77Ray BourqueD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 27:03 |
| 11P.J. AxelssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 17:59 |
| 12Dmitri KhristichR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 14:23 |
| 19Rob DiMaioR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 15:47 |
| 21Ted DonatoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 09:53 |
| 22Ken BaumgartnerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 06:28 |
| 33Anson CarterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21:52 |
| 18Kyle McLarenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 24:04 |
| 32Don SweeneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:38 |
| 44Dave EllettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:10 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Byron DafoeG | W | 17 | 2 | .882 |
| 47John GrahameG | 0 | 0 | – |