New Jersey Devils vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Wednesday, April 8, 1998 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The New York Islanders beat the New Jersey Devils 3–2 on Wednesday, April 8, 1998 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Devils outshot the Islanders 26–22.
Ziggy Palffy scored twice. Brendan Morrison, Dave Andreychuk and Robert Reichel also scored.
Tommy Salo made 24 saves on 26 shots for the win; Martin Brodeur stopped 19 of 22.
Scoring
1st period
Brendan Morrison (3)Patrik Elias (16), Dave Andreychuk (33)1–009:37 NJD
Ziggy Palffy (40)Unassisted1–115:05 NYI
2nd period
Dave Andreychuk (13)Patrik Elias (17), Scott Stevens (19)2–105:05 NJD
3rd period
- Ziggy Palffy (41)Mariusz Czerkawski (11), Kenny Jonsson (25)2–207:02 NYI
Robert Reichel (24)Ziggy Palffy (40), Trevor Linden (21)2–319:36 NYI ·
Team stats
NJDNYI
2622
49%51%
0/31/5
106
1125
69
114
910
Penalties
- 3:36 into the first period
Brian Rolston · interference2 min - 16:48 into the first period
Rich Pilon · interference2 min - 8:04 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 10:06 into the second periodBryan Berard · tripping2 min
- 16:13 into the second periodDenis Pederson · holding the stick2 min
- 19:23 into the second periodGino Odjick · roughing2 min
- 10:02 into the third periodScott Stevens · interference2 min
- 18:51 into the third periodBobby Holik · holding2 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 23Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 15:05 |
| 26Patrik EliasC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 16:17 |
| 9Brendan MorrisonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 14:49 |
| 4Scott StevensD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 19:46 |
| 10Denis PedersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 17:35 |
| 14Brian RolstonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19:20 |
| 16Bobby HolikC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:43 |
| 17Petr SykoraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:37 |
| 18Sergei BrylinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 08:34 |
| 19Bobby CarpenterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 17:08 |
| 20Jay PandolfoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 11:18 |
| 22Scott DanielsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:07 |
| 29Krzysztof OliwaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:20 |
| 2Sheldon SourayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:15 |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 17:46 |
| 5Doug BodgerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:55 |
| 24Lyle OdeleinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:21 |
| 27Scott NiedermayerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 27:55 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike DunhamG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Martin BrodeurG | L | 22 | 3 | .864 |
New York Islanders
| 16Ziggy PalffyR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 2 | 23:00 |
| 21Robert ReichelC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 17:57 |
| 25Mariusz CzerkawskiR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:26 |
| 32Trevor LindenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23:43 |
| 29Kenny JonssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 27:54 |
| 10Joe SaccoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 13:09 |
| 13Claude LapointeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 16:40 |
| 14Tom ChorskeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:53 |
| 18Mike HoughL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:14 |
| 20Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 18:31 |
| 24Gino OdjickL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 07:35 |
| 33Ken BelangerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 44Jason DaweR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:03 |
| 2Rich PilonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:43 |
| 3Zdeno CharaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:44 |
| 34Bryan BerardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23:45 |
| 36J.J. DaigneaultD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:41 |
| 60Ray SchultzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:56 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Wade FlahertyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Tommy SaloG | W | 26 | 2 | .923 |