Florida Panthers vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Tuesday, December 1, 1998 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Florida Panthers 5–4 in overtime on Tuesday, December 1, 1998 at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers outshot the Panthers 29–23.
Adam Graves scored twice. Dave Gagner, Radek Dvorak, Wayne Gretzky, John MacLean, Mark Parrish, Oleg Kvasha and Brian Leetch also scored.
Mike Richter made 19 saves on 23 shots for the win; Sean Burke stopped 24 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Dave Gagner (4)Radek Dvorak (5), Jaroslav Spacek (1)1–003:38 FLA · 
Radek Dvorak (4)Rob Niedermayer (9), Scott Mellanby (7)2–012:44 FLA
2nd period
Wayne Gretzky (4)Petr Nedved (3), Kevin Stevens (6)2–104:02 NYR · 
John MacLean (9)Kevin Stevens (7), Wayne Gretzky (19)2–211:26 NYR · 
Mark Parrish (10)Bill Lindsay (5), Kirk Muller (2)3–214:30 FLA
3rd period
Adam Graves (9)Todd Harvey (8), Mathieu Schneider (9)3–304:47 NYR · 
Oleg Kvasha (4)Dave Gagner (9), Viktor Kozlov (8)4–307:26 FLA
Brian Leetch (5)Wayne Gretzky (20), Petr Nedved (4)4–419:59 NYR
Overtime
- Adam Graves (10)Todd Harvey (9), Marc Savard (8)4–502:10 NYR
Team stats
FLANYR
2329
38%62%
1/43/6
1713
3142
719
2117
149
Penalties
- 1:46 into the first period
Ulf Samuelsson · tripping obstruction2 min - 10:01 into the first period
Mark Parrish · hooking2 min - 12:55 into the first periodPeter Worrell · fighting5 min
- 12:55 into the first periodDarren Langdon · fighting5 min
- 17:25 into the first periodMike Knuble · hooking2 min
- 19:33 into the first periodUlf Samuelsson · tripping2 min
- 3:52 into the second periodViktor Kozlov · holding stick obstruction2 min
- 10:17 into the second periodPeter Worrell · boarding2 min
- 18:48 into the second periodRadek Dvorak · tripping obstruction2 min
- 3:04 into the third periodJohan Garpenlov · cross checking2 min
- 18:15 into the third periodEsa Tikkanen · high sticking2 min
- 19:41 into the third periodRobert Svehla · hooking obstruction2 min
Season series
Florida Panthers
| 15Dave GagnerC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11:36 |
| 19Radek DvorakR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 25:01 |
| 9Kirk MullerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 17:55 |
| 11Bill LindsayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 15:12 |
| 16Oleg KvashaC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 07:21 |
| 21Mark ParrishR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 11:48 |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 13:22 |
| 27Scott MellanbyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 23:11 |
| 44Rob NiedermayerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 27:43 |
| 8Jaroslav SpacekD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 14:24 |
| 14Ray WhitneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:25 |
| 28Peter WorrellL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:13 |
| 29Johan GarpenlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:27 |
| 2Terry CarknerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22:13 |
| 3Paul LausD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 09:04 |
| 5Gord MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:06 |
| 24Robert SvehlaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 27:40 |
| 55Ed JovanovskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27:08 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Kirk McLeanG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Sean BurkeG | L | 29 | 5 | .828 |
New York Rangers
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 23:50 |
| 9Adam GravesL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 5 | 19:42 |
| 17Kevin StevensL | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 2 | 21:23 |
| 20Todd HarveyR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 19:43 |
| 93Petr NedvedC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 4 | 23:50 |
| 15John MacLeanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | 24:52 |
| 33Marc SavardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:52 |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 32:06 |
| 25Mathieu SchneiderD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 26:09 |
| 6Manny MalhotraC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00:46 |
| 10Esa TikkanenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:24 |
| 19Darren LangdonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 00:55 |
| 22Mike KnubleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:03 |
| 24Niklas SundstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:15 |
| 4Chris TamerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 05:57 |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21:04 |
| 23Jeff BeukeboomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 08:45 |
| 34Peter PopovicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22:43 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Mike RichterG | W | 23 | 4 | .826 |
| 39Dan CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – |