Toronto Maple Leafs vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Monday, December 7, 1998 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6–2 on Monday, December 7, 1998 at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers outshot the Maple Leafs 29–26.
Goals came from Freddy Modin, Mike Knuble, Todd Harvey, Niklas Sundstrom, Brian Leetch, Sergei Berezin, Petr Nedved and John MacLean.
Mike Richter made 24 saves on 26 shots for the win; Curtis Joseph stopped 23 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Freddy Modin (7)Mats Sundin (19), Steve Thomas (10)1–000:25 TOR
Mike Knuble (4)Niklas Sundstrom (7), Ulf Samuelsson (1)1–109:22 NYR
Todd Harvey (8)Adam Graves (4)1–219:51 NYR
2nd period
Niklas Sundstrom (6)Mike Knuble (6), Petr Nedved (6)1–300:53 NYR
Brian Leetch (6)Petr Nedved (7), Niklas Sundstrom (8)1–415:27 NYR
Sergei Berezin (8)Dmitry Yushkevich (8), Steve Thomas (11)2–418:09 TOR
3rd period
Petr Nedved (3)Niklas Sundstrom (9), Mike Knuble (7)2–512:32 NYR
John MacLean (10)Kevin Stevens (9), Wayne Gretzky (21)2–613:25 NYR
Team stats
TORNYR
2629
45%55%
0/40/2
812
3632
1627
2324
1024
Penalties
- 12:25 into the first period
Ulf Samuelsson · roughing2 min - 5:49 into the second periodKevin Stevens · slashing2 min
- 8:42 into the second period
Danny Markov · holding obstruction2 min - 14:37 into the second periodAdam Graves · roughing2 min
- 14:37 into the second periodTodd Harvey · roughing2 min
- 14:37 into the second periodTie Domi · roughing2 min
- 14:37 into the second periodKris King · roughing2 min
- 18:35 into the second periodPetr Nedved · holding obstruction2 min
- 1:41 into the third periodJason Smith · roughing2 min
- 6:11 into the third periodJohn MacLean · tripping2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 32Steve ThomasR | 0 | 2 | 2 | −2 | 1 | 15:58 |
| 13Mats SundinC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 3 | 15:50 |
| 19Freddy ModinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 1 | 12:55 |
| 94Sergei BerezinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 18:48 |
| 36Dmitry YushkevichD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20:40 |
| 7Derek KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 15:37 |
| 10Garry ValkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:18 |
| 12Kris KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 11:26 |
| 14Darby HendricksonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:19 |
| 18Alyn McCauleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:53 |
| 20Mike JohnsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:14 |
| 22Igor KorolevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 18:38 |
| 28Tie DomiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 11:03 |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 22:13 |
| 15Tomas KaberleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 19:13 |
| 25Jason SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 19:18 |
| 38Yannick TremblayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 22:06 |
| 55Danny MarkovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:29 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Glenn HealyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Curtis JosephG | L | 29 | 6 | .793 |
New York Rangers
| 24Niklas SundstromR | 1 | 3 | 4 | +2 | 2 | 16:36 |
| 22Mike KnubleR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 4 | 14:28 |
| 93Petr NedvedC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 4 | 15:52 |
| 9Adam GravesL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 17:46 |
| 15John MacLeanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 19:52 |
| 17Kevin StevensL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:31 |
| 20Todd HarveyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:16 |
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:17 |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +4 | 4 | 27:17 |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 0 | 20:54 |
| 6Manny MalhotraC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:43 |
| 10Esa TikkanenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:14 |
| 33Marc SavardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 13:32 |
| 37Brent FedykL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:31 |
| 3Stan NeckarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:44 |
| 23Jeff BeukeboomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:08 |
| 25Mathieu SchneiderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:20 |
| 34Peter PopovicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19:40 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Mike RichterG | W | 26 | 2 | .923 |
| 39Dan CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – |