1st	2nd	3rd	TOTAL
Boston	3	0	2	5
NY Rangers	0	0	2	2

First Period: Scoring: 1, Boston, Girard 1 (Van Impe, Henderson), 11:04. 2, Boston, Axelsson 3 (Carter, Thornton), 13:39. 3, Boston, Samsonov 5 (power play) (Carter, Bourque), 17:09. Penalties: Lefebvre, Nyr (holding), 7:33; J Maclean, Nyr (interference), 15:47.
Second Period: Scoring: None. Penalties: Andreychuk, Bos (Obstr holding), 4:10; Thornton, Bos (high sticking), 18:14.
Third Period: Scoring: 4, Boston, Carter 4 (Axelsson, Eloranta), 8:09. 5, NY Rangers, Hlavac 1 (power play) (Leetch, Nedved), 13:52. 6, Boston, Carter 5 (Thornton), 16:43. 7, NY Rangers, Schneider 1 (Fleury, York), 19:59. Penalties: Quintal, Nyr (slashing), 10:24; Heinze, Bos (interference), 12:37.

SHOTS ON GOAL

Boston		8	5	13	--26
NY Rangers		9	8	12	--29

Power-play Conversions: Bos - 1 of 3, Nyr - 1 of 3. Goalies: Boston, Dafoe (29 shots, 27 saves; record: 3-1-0). NY Rangers, Richter (26, 21; record: 2-7-3). A:18,200. Referees: Larue, Gregson. Linesmen: Collins, Sericolo.

INDIVIDUAL PLAYER STATISTICS

Boston					New York
	G	A	+/-	Shots		G	A	+/-	Shots
Allison Andreychuk Axelsson Bates Bourque Carter Eloranta Gill Girard Heinze Henderson Hulbig K Mclaren Samsonov Sweeney Thornton Timander Van Impe	0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0	0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1	even even +3 even +3 +3 even +2 +1 even even even even even even +2 even +1	2 0 1 1 4 3 1 1 1 5 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 1	Fleury Graves Hatcher Hlavac J Maclean Johnsson Kenady Knuble Langdon Leetch Lefebvre Malhotra Nedved Quintal Schneider Stevens Taylor York	0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0	1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1	-2 -2 -3 even even -1 -1 even -1 -3 even -1 even even +1 even even -2	3 2 4 1 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 3 1 6 1 2 0