Boston Bruins vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Wednesday, December 16, 1998 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Boston Bruins 5–3 on Wednesday, December 16, 1998 at Joe Louis Arena. The Bruins outshot the Red Wings 26–25.
Goals came from Nicklas Lidstrom, Jason Allison, Mathieu Dandenault, Dmitri Khristich, Larry Murphy, Martin Lapointe, Shawn Bates and Darren McCarty.
Scoring
1st period
Nicklas Lidstrom (5)Sergei Fedorov (9), Tomas Holmstrom (9)0–108:49 DET · 
Jason Allison (8)Sergei Samsonov (15)1–115:35 BOS
2nd period
Mathieu Dandenault (1)Anders Eriksson (8)1–205:31 DET
Dmitri Khristich (13)Jason Allison (16), Sergei Samsonov (16)2–209:43 BOS
Larry Murphy (4)Brendan Shanahan (13), Darren McCarty (19)2–314:32 DET · 
Martin Lapointe (7)Kris Draper (5)2–415:39 DET ·
3rd period
Shawn Bates (2)Dmitri Khristich (18), Darren Van Impe (8)3–418:29 BOS
Darren McCarty (9)Brendan Shanahan (14), Steve Yzerman (21)3–519:50 DET ·
Team stats
BOSDET
2625
49%51%
0/62/3
814
3434
416
49
36
Penalties
- 8:09 into the first period
Don Sweeney · tripping2 min - 9:21 into the first period
Kris Draper · boarding2 min - 17:14 into the first periodAnders Eriksson · hooking2 min
- 2:55 into the second periodStacy Roest · hooking2 min
- 12:55 into the second periodAnson Carter · holding stick obstruction2 min
- 15:04 into the second periodSteve Yzerman · hooking2 min
- 19:51 into the second periodSteve Heinze · holding2 min
- 0:38 into the third periodRob DiMaio · roughing2 min
- 0:38 into the third periodTomas Holmstrom · roughing2 min
- 9:24 into the third periodSergei Fedorov · holding2 min
- 14:06 into the third periodBrendan Shanahan · high sticking2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.