Pittsburgh Penguins vs Edmonton Oilers
Regular season · Saturday, October 31, 1998 · Skyreach Centre
Game summary
The Edmonton Oilers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4–1 on Saturday, October 31, 1998 at Skyreach Centre. The Penguins outshot the Oilers 22–15.
Goals came from Kevin Brown, Boyd Devereaux, Andrei Kovalenko, Rob Brown and Mike Grier.
Bob Essensa made 21 saves on 22 shots for the win; Jean-Sebastien Aubin stopped 11 of 15.
Scoring
1st period
Kevin Brown (4)Andrei Kovalenko (7), Pat Falloon (1)0–109:51 EDM · 
Boyd Devereaux (3)Unassisted0–210:51 EDM ·
2nd period
Andrei Kovalenko (2)Bill Guerin (4)0–315:50 EDM
Rob Brown (2)Kevin Hatcher (4), German Titov (5)1–317:54 PIT ·
3rd period
Mike Grier (3)Ryan Smyth (1), Craig Millar (1)1–417:06 EDM
Team stats
PITEDM
2215
55%45%
1/71/7
1818
2623
109
917
1418
Penalties
- 4:58 into the first period
Robert Lang · tripping obstruction2 min - 8:36 into the first periodBrad Werenka · delaying game2 min
- 10:30 into the first period
Mats Lindgren · cross checking2 min - 1:25 into the second periodRyan Smyth · holding2 min
- 1:44 into the second periodGerman Titov · holding obstruction2 min
- 3:51 into the second periodBill Guerin · cross checking2 min
- 8:34 into the second periodKip Miller · tripping2 min
- 11:28 into the second periodJiri Slegr · interference2 min
- 11:38 into the second periodBoris Mironov · hooking2 min
- 17:01 into the second periodDean McAmmond · kneeing2 min
- 19:58 into the second periodJiri Slegr · holding2 min
- 2:32 into the third periodRoman Hamrlik · interference2 min
- 5:41 into the third periodDean McAmmond · elbowing2 min
- 11:19 into the third periodSean Brown · roughing2 min
- 11:19 into the third periodBoyd Devereaux · roughing2 min
- 11:19 into the third periodJiri Slegr · roughing2 min
- 11:19 into the third periodTyler Wright · roughing2 min
- 17:39 into the third periodJan Hrdina · tripping obstruction2 min
Season series
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 9German TitovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 22:43 |
| 44Rob BrownR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:00 |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 25:19 |
| 14Stu BarnesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 18:41 |
| 20Robert LangC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:14 |
| 28Dan KesaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:03 |
| 29Tyler WrightC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 07:15 |
| 37Kip MillerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:21 |
| 38Jan HrdinaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:45 |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 13:09 |
| 82Martin StrakaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 27:32 |
| 95Aleksey MorozovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:31 |
| 5Brad WerenkaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:55 |
| 8Bobby DollasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 12:06 |
| 11Darius KasparaitisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:58 |
| 47Maxim GalanovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:52 |
| 48Jeff SerowikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:41 |
| 71Jiri SlegrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 14:08 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Peter SkudraG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Jean-Sebastien AubinG | L | 15 | 4 | .733 |
Edmonton Oilers
| 51Andrei KovalenkoR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 16:04 |
| 9Bill GuerinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:35 |
| 10Pat FalloonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13:24 |
| 19Boyd DevereauxC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 12:46 |
| 25Mike GrierR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:33 |
| 42Kevin BrownR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 08:00 |
| 94Ryan SmythL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 13:24 |
| 32Craig MillarD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17:01 |
| 14Mats LindgrenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:28 |
| 16Kelly BuchbergerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 12:41 |
| 20Josef BeranekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 16:44 |
| 26Todd MarchantC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 15:39 |
| 37Dean McAmmondC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:19 |
| 2Boris MironovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 25:38 |
| 8Frantisek MusilD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:37 |
| 22Roman HamrlikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 21:16 |
| 23Sean BrownD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:34 |
| 44Janne NiinimaaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 26:14 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Bob EssensaG | W | 22 | 1 | .955 |
| 35Mikhail ShtalenkovG | 0 | 0 | – |