Pittsburgh Penguins vs Philadelphia Flyers
Regular season · Sunday, March 8, 1998 · CoreStates Center
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4–3 in overtime on Sunday, March 8, 1998 at CoreStates Center. The Flyers outshot the Penguins 29–26.
Goals came from Mike Sillinger, Brad Werenka, John LeClair, Martin Straka, Shjon Podein, Jaromir Jagr and Alexandre Daigle.
Ron Hextall made 23 saves on 26 shots for the win; Ken Wregget stopped 25 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Mike Sillinger (14)Rod Brind'Amour (26), Trent Klatt (18)0–104:31 PHI ·
2nd period
Brad Werenka (3)Robert Lang (6)1–103:29 PIT · 
John LeClair (39)Eric Desjardins (15), Dainius Zubrus (23)1–208:11 PHI
Martin Straka (12)Jaromir Jagr (51), Fredrik Olausson (22)2–209:14 PIT
3rd period
Shjon Podein (8)Alexandre Daigle (19), Rod Brind'Amour (27)2–319:14 PHI
Jaromir Jagr (29)Kevin Hatcher (26), Ron Francis (51)3–319:45 PIT
Overtime
Alexandre Daigle (8)Rod Brind'Amour (28)3–404:03 PHI
Team stats
PITPHI
2629
51%49%
1/71/7
3636
1922
157
2026
911
Penalties
- 1:17 into the first period
Colin Forbes · interference2 min - 3:44 into the first periodChris Gratton · fighting5 min
- 3:44 into the first periodChris Gratton · misconduct10 min
- 3:44 into the first period
Jiri Slegr · fighting5 min - 3:44 into the first periodJiri Slegr · misconduct10 min
- 3:44 into the first periodDarius Kasparaitis · holding obstruction2 min
- 6:48 into the first periodColin Forbes · roughing2 min
- 6:48 into the first periodColin Forbes · fighting5 min
- 6:48 into the first periodDarius Kasparaitis · roughing2 min
- 6:48 into the first periodDarius Kasparaitis · fighting5 min
- 8:06 into the first periodChris Tamer · slashing2 min
- 8:23 into the first periodJanne Niinimaa · hooking2 min
- 11:35 into the first periodChris Therien · high sticking2 min
- 14:45 into the first periodEric Desjardins · cross checking2 min
- 16:49 into the first periodFredrik Olausson · holding2 min
- 18:31 into the first periodChris Therien · interference2 min
- 1:30 into the second periodChris Gratton · cross checking2 min
- 10:21 into the second periodChris Tamer · interference2 min
- 19:05 into the second periodChris Gratton · slashing2 min
- 7:43 into the third periodKen Wregget · high sticking2 min
- 7:43 into the third periodKen Wregget · high sticking2 min
- 11:49 into the third periodChris Tamer · cross checking2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 27:20 |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 24:30 |
| 20Robert LangC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 20:05 |
| 82Martin StrakaC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 15:03 |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 27:19 |
| 5Brad WerenkaD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 1 | 19:50 |
| 23Fredrik OlaussonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 23:39 |
| 14Stu BarnesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | 26:55 |
| 29Tyler WrightC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 09:54 |
| 38Andreas JohanssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 00:57 |
| 44Rob BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 17:34 |
| 57Chris FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 05:42 |
| 95Aleksey MorozovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:02 |
| 2Chris TamerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:51 |
| 6Neil WilkinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:01 |
| 11Darius KasparaitisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 17:10 |
| 24Ian MoranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 19:43 |
| 71Jiri SlegrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:15 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Peter SkudraG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Ken WreggetG | L | 29 | 4 | .862 |
Philadelphia Flyers
| 17Rod Brind'AmourC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 2 | 22:12 |
| 19Alexandre DaigleR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 08:45 |
| 9Dainius ZubrusC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 16:48 |
| 10John LeClairL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 22:40 |
| 11Mike SillingerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 18:58 |
| 20Trent KlattR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | 18:31 |
| 25Shjon PodeinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 16:43 |
| 37Eric DesjardinsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 24:51 |
| 12Colin ForbesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 11:53 |
| 14Craig DarbyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 04:04 |
| 26John DruceR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 09:02 |
| 29Joel OttoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:34 |
| 55Chris GrattonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 15:25 |
| 6Chris TherienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 20:47 |
| 22Luke RichardsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:11 |
| 28Kjell SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:43 |
| 44Janne NiinimaaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 26:26 |
| 77Paul CoffeyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 25:40 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Ron HextallG | W | 26 | 3 | .885 |
| 35Neil LittleG | 0 | 0 | – |