Ottawa Senators vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Wednesday, March 25, 1998 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The Ottawa Senators beat the New York Rangers 3–2 in overtime on Wednesday, March 25, 1998 at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers outshot the Senators 29–26.
Goals came from Bruce Gardiner, Andreas Dackell, Alex Kovalev, Darren Langdon and Alexei Yashin.
Damian Rhodes made 27 saves on 29 shots for the win; Mike Richter stopped 23 of 26.
Scoring
1st period
Bruce Gardiner (6)Randy Cunneyworth (10), Jason York (11)1–008:36 OTT
Andreas Dackell (14)Randy Cunneyworth (11), Bruce Gardiner (9)2–017:29 OTT
2nd period
Alex Kovalev (16)Wayne Gretzky (59), Niklas Sundstrom (23)2–118:11 NYR
3rd period
Darren Langdon (3)Wayne Gretzky (60), Bill Berg (9)2–208:57 NYR
Overtime
Alexei Yashin (30)Daniel Alfredsson (24), Wade Redden (12)3–203:11 OTT
Team stats
OTTNYR
2629
50%50%
0/20/2
88
1117
1118
2849
1532
Penalties
- 1:12 into the first period
Brian Leetch · hooking2 min - 19:14 into the first period
Shawn McEachern · holding the stick2 min - 5:17 into the second periodStan Neckar · elbowing2 min
- 7:17 into the second periodAdam Graves · roughing2 min
- 7:17 into the second periodLance Pitlick · interference2 min
- 12:10 into the second periodKevin Stevens · roughing2 min
- 12:10 into the second periodStan Neckar · roughing2 min
- 14:58 into the second periodJeff Finley · cross checking2 min
Season series
Ottawa Senators
| 7Randy CunneyworthL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 14:08 |
| 25Bruce GardinerR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 16:14 |
| 10Andreas DackellR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 19:53 |
| 11Daniel AlfredssonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 17:19 |
| 19Alexei YashinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 20:36 |
| 6Wade ReddenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 23:03 |
| 33Jason YorkD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21:46 |
| 13Vinny ProspalL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 16:29 |
| 14Radek BonkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:52 |
| 15Shawn McEachernL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 19:40 |
| 16Sergei ZholtokC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12:03 |
| 17Chris MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:04 |
| 22Shaun Van AllenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:44 |
| 2Lance PitlickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:36 |
| 4Chris PhillipsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:28 |
| 24Stan NeckarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:39 |
| 27Janne LaukkanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:32 |
| 29Igor KravchukD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22:32 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Damian RhodesG | W | 29 | 2 | .931 |
| 31Ron TugnuttG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Rangers
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 25:34 |
| 15Darren LangdonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10:52 |
| 18Bill BergL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12:10 |
| 24Niklas SundstromR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 21:48 |
| 27Alex KovalevR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 23:46 |
| 9Adam GravesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | 20:16 |
| 10Marc SavardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:33 |
| 12Bob ErreyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:02 |
| 17Kevin StevensL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 17:56 |
| 32Harry YorkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 11:55 |
| 37Tim SweeneyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:19 |
| 39Vladimir VorobievR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 05:04 |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 30:34 |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22:11 |
| 14Geoff SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 22:51 |
| 23Jeff BeukeboomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:09 |
| 26Jeff FinleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 10:05 |
| 33Bruce DriverD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 27:42 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Dan CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Mike RichterG | L | 26 | 3 | .885 |