New York Rangers vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Thursday, February 26, 1998 · Maple Leaf Gardens
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5–2 on Thursday, February 26, 1998 at Maple Leaf Gardens. The Maple Leafs outshot the Rangers 28–25.
Niklas Sundstrom scored twice and Freddy Modin scored twice. Alex Kovalev, Pat LaFontaine and Adam Graves also scored.
Mike Richter made 26 saves on 28 shots for the win; Glenn Healy stopped 20 of 25.
Scoring
1st period
Niklas Sundstrom (12)Wayne Gretzky (44), Alex Kovalev (17)1–009:05 NYR ·
2nd period
Alex Kovalev (10)Brian Leetch (21), Wayne Gretzky (45)2–016:38 NYR · 
Freddy Modin (12)Derek King (19), Jeff Brown (13)2–119:06 TOR- Freddy Modin (13)Derek King (20), Steve Sullivan (16)2–219:36 TOR
3rd period
- Niklas Sundstrom (13)Wayne Gretzky (46), Bruce Driver (11)3–203:28 NYR
Pat LaFontaine (21)Ulf Samuelsson (7), Tim Sweeney (14)4–205:01 NYR
Adam Graves (18)Brian Leetch (22), Pat LaFontaine (35)5–213:29 NYR
Team stats
NYRTOR
2528
49%51%
2/50/10
2010
1622
66
1113
32
Penalties
- 6:28 into the first period
Bill Berg · interference2 min - 8:47 into the first period
Todd Warriner · hooking obstruction2 min - 17:50 into the first periodDarby Hendrickson · tripping obstruction2 min
- 2:29 into the second periodMike Keane · interference2 min
- 5:24 into the second periodDarren Langdon · high sticking2 min
- 5:24 into the second periodDarren Langdon · high sticking2 min
- 9:59 into the second periodKris King · holding stick obstruction2 min
- 10:42 into the second periodKevin Stevens · interference2 min
- 11:26 into the second periodBruce Driver · hooking2 min
- 14:55 into the second periodDerek King · tripping obstruction2 min
- 15:27 into the second periodDmitry Yushkevich · slashing2 min
- 5:22 into the third periodUlf Samuelsson · hooking obstruction2 min
- 9:13 into the third periodPat LaFontaine · holding obstruction2 min
- 16:50 into the third periodTim Sweeney · holding obstruction2 min
- 19:43 into the third periodJeff Finley · tripping2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 17:57 |
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 17:02 |
| 24Niklas SundstromR | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 19:22 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 16:55 |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 27:05 |
| 9Adam GravesL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 20:57 |
| 37Tim SweeneyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 12:43 |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:39 |
| 33Bruce DriverD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 20:55 |
| 12Mike KeaneR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:10 |
| 15Darren LangdonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:40 |
| 17Kevin StevensL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:52 |
| 18Bill BergL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:57 |
| 20Brian SkrudlandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 05:14 |
| 32Mike EastwoodC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:00 |
| 6Doug LidsterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:49 |
| 23Jeff BeukeboomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 18:05 |
| 26Jeff FinleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:45 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Dan CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Mike RichterG | W | 28 | 2 | .929 |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 7Derek KingL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15:50 |
| 19Freddy ModinL | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 14:59 |
| 11Steve SullivanL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 17:36 |
| 33Jeff BrownD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22:55 |
| 8Todd WarrinerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10:23 |
| 12Kris KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:25 |
| 13Mats SundinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 22:21 |
| 14Darby HendricksonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:49 |
| 18Alyn McCauleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10:42 |
| 20Mike JohnsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:18 |
| 22Igor KorolevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 19:18 |
| 28Tie DomiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:46 |
| 94Sergei BerezinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:19 |
| 2Rob ZettlerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:00 |
| 25Jason SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:46 |
| 34Jamie MacounD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:43 |
| 36Dmitry YushkevichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:05 |
| 72Mathieu SchneiderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 27:41 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Felix PotvinG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Glenn HealyG | L | 25 | 5 | .800 |