Montréal Canadiens vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Playoffs · Thursday, April 23, 1998 · Civic Arena
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3–2 in overtime on Thursday, April 23, 1998 at Civic Arena. The Canadiens outshot the Penguins 40–36.
Goals came from Martin Rucinsky, Brad Werenka, Peter Popovic, Stu Barnes and Benoit Brunet.
Andy Moog made 34 saves on 36 shots for the win; Tom Barrasso stopped 37 of 40.
Scoring
1st period
Martin Rucinsky (1)Vincent Damphousse (1), Igor Ulanov (1)1–012:15 MTL ·
2nd period
Brad Werenka (1)Jiri Slegr (1)1–107:21 PIT · 
Peter Popovic (1)Brian Savage (1), Vincent Damphousse (2)2–116:44 MTL
3rd period
Stu Barnes (1)Jiri Slegr (2), Jaromir Jagr (1)2–218:22 PIT
Overtime
Benoit Brunet (1)Vladimir Malakhov (1)3–218:43 MTL
Team stats
MTLPIT
4036
39%61%
1/50/5
1618
2023
1311
1317
818
Penalties
- 5:42 into the first period
Vincent Damphousse · tripping obstruction2 min - 10:32 into the first period
Tyler Wright · boarding2 min - 5:12 into the second periodBrad Werenka · interference obstruction2 min
- 6:00 into the second periodDarius Kasparaitis · interference obstruction2 min
- 8:26 into the second periodZarley Zalapski · cross checking2 min
- 8:47 into the second periodJiri Slegr · hooking obstruction2 min
- 9:16 into the second periodIgor Ulanov · roughing2 min
- 12:55 into the second periodZarley Zalapski · hooking2 min
- 14:22 into the second periodKevin Hatcher · tripping obstruction2 min
- 8:39 into the third periodSebastien Bordeleau · slashing2 min
- 18:44 into the third periodBenoit Brunet · roughing2 min
- 18:44 into the third periodRob Brown · roughing2 min
- 1:44 into overtimeShayne Corson · roughing2 min
- 1:44 into overtimeDave Manson · roughing2 min
- 1:44 into overtimeTyler Wright · roughing2 min
- 1:44 into overtimeDarius Kasparaitis · roughing2 min
- 4:40 into overtimeKevin Hatcher · hooking obstruction2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 25Vincent DamphousseC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 23:45 |
| 17Benoit BrunetL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 23:21 |
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 22:04 |
| 49Brian SavageL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 19:33 |
| 34Peter PopovicD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 17:48 |
| 38Vladimir MalakhovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 32:43 |
| 55Igor UlanovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 31:15 |
| 8Mark RecchiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 26:27 |
| 23Turner StevensonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 20:33 |
| 27Shayne CorsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 28:27 |
| 28Marc BureauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:28 |
| 44Jonas HoglundR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 10:30 |
| 71Sebastien BordeleauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 04:05 |
| 3Zarley ZalapskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20:49 |
| 5Stephane QuintalD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:44 |
| 22Dave MansonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 30:16 |
| 43Patrice BriseboisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 29:08 |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:03 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Andy MoogG | W | 36 | 2 | .944 |
| 41Jocelyn ThibaultG | 0 | 0 | – |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 71Jiri SlegrD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 29:04 |
| 14Stu BarnesC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 29:09 |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 32:02 |
| 5Brad WerenkaD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 22:47 |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 6 | 30:25 |
| 12Sean ProngerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:27 |
| 16Eddie OlczykR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:11 |
| 20Robert LangC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22:07 |
| 29Tyler WrightC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 03:29 |
| 33Alex HicksL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:12 |
| 44Rob BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 19:18 |
| 82Martin StrakaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 25:13 |
| 95Aleksey MorozovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16:11 |
| 2Chris TamerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 22:28 |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 29:05 |
| 11Darius KasparaitisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:48 |
| 23Fredrik OlaussonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 30:00 |
| 24Ian MoranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:20 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Ken WreggetG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Tom BarrassoG | L | 40 | 3 | .925 |