New York Rangers vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Saturday, April 6, 2002 · FleetCenter
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Boston Bruins 6–4 on Saturday, April 6, 2002 at FleetCenter. The Bruins outshot the Rangers 38–25.
Petr Nedved scored twice. Sandy McCarthy, Brian Rolston, Eric Lindros, Glen Murray, Martin Rucinsky, Bill Guerin, Sergei Samsonov and Matthew Barnaby also scored.
Dan Blackburn made 34 saves on 38 shots for the win; Byron Dafoe stopped 19 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Petr Nedved (19)Sandy McCarthy (13), Matthew Barnaby (12)1–001:53 NYR- Petr Nedved (20)Matthew Barnaby (13), Bryan Berard (20)2–011:58 NYR
Sandy McCarthy (10)Dale Purinton (4), Bryan Berard (21)3–013:53 NYR
Brian Rolston (30)Glen Murray (30), Sergei Samsonov (38)3–116:32 BOS ·
2nd period
Eric Lindros (35)Martin Rucinsky (24), Pavel Bure (33)4–107:30 NYR
Glen Murray (37)Bill Guerin (25), Joe Thornton (41)4–216:44 BOS ·
3rd period
Martin Rucinsky (11)Pavel Bure (34), Eric Lindros (36)5–203:18 NYR
Bill Guerin (38)Rob Zamuner (13), Joe Thornton (42)5–304:02 BOS
Sergei Samsonov (29)Jozef Stumpel (47), Martin Lapointe (22)5–415:24 BOS
Matthew Barnaby (8)Brian Leetch (43)6–419:20 NYR ·
Team stats
NYRBOS
2538
56%44%
0/12/3
2016
1618
1910
410
87
Penalties
- 13:20 into the first period
P.J. Stock · fighting5 min - 13:20 into the first period
Steve McKenna · fighting5 min - 15:01 into the first periodEric Lindros · holding the stick2 min
- 19:47 into the first periodMatthew Barnaby · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 15:11 into the second periodVladimir Malakhov · tripping2 min
- 19:04 into the second periodMartin Lapointe · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 6:54 into the third periodNick Boynton · roughing2 min
- 6:54 into the third periodEric Lindros · roughing2 min
- 13:06 into the third periodMartin Lapointe · roughing2 min
- 13:06 into the third periodTheo Fleury · roughing2 min
- 19:43 into the third periodNick Boynton · fighting5 min
- 19:43 into the third periodMatthew Barnaby · fighting5 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 36Matthew BarnabyR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +4 | 6 | 15:12 |
| 9Pavel BureR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 3 | 21:06 |
| 10Sandy McCarthyR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 1 | 15:13 |
| 19Martin RucinskyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 18:29 |
| 88Eric LindrosC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 2 | 20:08 |
| 93Petr NedvedC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +3 | 3 | 19:55 |
| 34Bryan BerardD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +4 | 0 | 15:54 |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 24:57 |
| 5Dale PurintonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +4 | 0 | 11:46 |
| 14Theo FleuryR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:23 |
| 17Rem MurrayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 14:07 |
| 21Steve McKennaL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:57 |
| 26Andreas JohanssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:33 |
| 29Roman LyashenkoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 05:58 |
| 37Mikael SamuelssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 06:55 |
| 3Tom PotiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 21:20 |
| 23Vladimir MalakhovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 23:01 |
| 33Dave KarpaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 22:03 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Dan BlackburnG | W | 38 | 4 | .895 |
| 40Johan HolmqvistG | 0 | 0 | – |
Boston Bruins
| 13Bill GuerinR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 7 | 22:16 |
| 14Sergei SamsonovL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 19:03 |
| 19Joe ThorntonC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 20:59 |
| 27Glen MurrayR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 3 | 19:11 |
| 12Brian RolstonR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 6 | 21:04 |
| 16Jozef StumpelL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 18:10 |
| 17Rob ZamunerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10:07 |
| 20Martin LapointeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | 16:41 |
| 10Marty McinnisL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:08 |
| 11P.J. AxelssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | 15:38 |
| 42P.J. StockC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 02:02 |
| 18Kyle McLarenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | 18:31 |
| 21Sean O'DonnellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 22:25 |
| 23Sean BrownD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:41 |
| 25Hal GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 21:42 |
| 31Jamie RiversD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 02:56 |
| 32Don SweeneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:47 |
| 44Nick BoyntonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 20:24 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34Byron DafoeG | L | 24 | 5 | .792 |
| 47John GrahameG | 0 | 0 | – |