New York Rangers vs Phoenix Coyotes
Regular season · Wednesday, December 30, 1998 · America West Arena
Game summary
The Phoenix Coyotes beat the New York Rangers 3–1 on Wednesday, December 30, 1998 at America West Arena. The Rangers outshot the Coyotes 30–26.
Goals came from Niklas Sundstrom, Bob Corkum, Rick Tocchet and Daniel Brière.
Nikolai Khabibulin made 29 saves on 30 shots for the win; Dan Cloutier stopped 23 of 26.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 NYR | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 30 |
 PHX | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 26 |
Scoring
1st period
Niklas Sundstrom (8)Mike Knuble (11), Petr Nedved (12)1–001:25 NYR
2nd period
Bob Corkum (4)Daniel Brière (4), Brad Isbister (4)1–106:48 PHX
Rick Tocchet (12)Juha Ylonen (10), Oleg Tverdovsky (8)1–218:16 PHX
3rd period
Daniel Brière (5)Mike Stapleton (3)1–312:00 PHX
Team stats
NYRPHX
3026
48%52%
0/20/3
86
96
74
2119
919
Penalties
- 7:19 into the first periodUlf Samuelsson · holding2 min
- 13:37 into the first periodPeter Popovic · interference2 min
- 10:55 into the second periodLouie Debrusk · elbowing2 min
- 13:07 into the second periodNiklas Sundstrom · hooking2 min
- 6:41 into the third periodGerald Diduck · interference2 min
- 14:18 into the third periodUlf Samuelsson · holding obstruction2 min
- 14:18 into the third periodBrad Isbister · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 22Mike KnubleR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:01 |
| 24Niklas SundstromR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 18:24 |
| 93Petr NedvedC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 19:13 |
| 6Manny MalhotraC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 04:30 |
| 9Adam GravesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 16:36 |
| 10Esa TikkanenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 09:19 |
| 15John MacLeanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:26 |
| 17Kevin StevensL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:58 |
| 20Todd HarveyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 16:47 |
| 33Marc SavardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 12:36 |
| 37Brent FedykL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:08 |
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:36 |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 27:48 |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:20 |
| 23Jeff BeukeboomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 16:18 |
| 25Mathieu SchneiderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 22:40 |
| 34Peter PopovicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 6 | 20:35 |
| 36Ruman NdurD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 11:42 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Mike RichterG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Dan CloutierG | L | 26 | 3 | .885 |
Phoenix Coyotes
| 8Daniel BrièreC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 14:34 |
| 14Mike StapletonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:09 |
| 16Brad IsbisterL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 16:18 |
| 21Bob CorkumC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 20:16 |
| 22Rick TocchetR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 20:26 |
| 36Juha YlonenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 18:19 |
| 10Oleg TverdovskyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 19:05 |
| 15Jim CumminsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:35 |
| 17Greg AdamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 19:53 |
| 19Shane DoanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 16:03 |
| 23Stephen LeachR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:29 |
| 26Mike SullivanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:52 |
| 29Louie DebruskL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:59 |
| 3Keith CarneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 23:17 |
| 4Gerald DiduckD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 16:20 |
| 5Deron QuintD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | 12:44 |
| 20Jyrki LummeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 24:06 |
| 27Teppo NumminenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 24:27 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28Jimmy WaiteG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Nikolai KhabibulinG | W | 30 | 1 | .967 |