Philadelphia Flyers (2) - New York Rangers (0)

October 22, 1999

Fights on the ice and in the stands are pretty standard when the Rangers play the Flyers. It should be interesting Friday night at Madison Square Garden.

Mark Recchi had a goal and three assists as the Philadelphia Flyers stopped the New York Rangers, 5-0, Wednesday night, their first dominant performance of the season.

Eric Lindros punctuated a physical game with a resounding check on Petr Nedved with 6:20 left. After Lindros blasted Nedved loose from his helmet and off his skates, he bloodied Todd Harvey's eye in a fight in front of the Philadelphia bench. The teams play again Friday in New York.

"Any time you get back-to-back games, things will heat up a little bit," Lindros said. "New York-Philadelphia is a pretty good rivalry."

Lindros, assessed two minutes for elbowing and five minutes for fighting, skated off from an ovation from a sellout crowd that was depleted by early departures and ejections. Rangers and Flyers fans had several fights themselves.

Philadelphia won its second straight after starting the year 0-5-1. The Rangers lost for the second time in six games. Flyers goaltender John Vanbiesbrouck, a former Rangers goalie, stopped 34 shots for his 36th career shutout.

Recchi, hampered by a series of concussions after the Flyers acquired him last season, is a completely different player this year. He has three goals and 11 assists for 14 points, second in the league.

Moments before the Lindros incident, Jody Hull made it 4-0 on a short-handed goal with 9:34 left. Recchi came up with New York's errant centering pass and rushed up ice. He slid a pass underneath Leetch to Hull, who one-timed it past Richter.

With 18.2 seconds left, Recchi passed to rookie Simon Gagne for his fourth goal, clinching the game. Both of those goals resulted from defensive takeaways -- whereas the Flyers' winless streak was marred by carelessness in their own zone.

Recchi scored on a nifty pass from John LeClair to make it 3-0 in the second, a rare moment of beauty in a game filled with crushing hits and chippy play. Lindros skated across the blue line and appeared to attempt a pass to Recchi, who was tied up and spun around. The puck went instead to LeClair, who shuttled it back to Recchi for his third goal of the season past a sprawling Mike Richter with 8:48 left in the period.

Statistics Summary

Goal Scoring:

1st

2d

3d

FINAL

PHI

0

2

0

2

NYR

0

0

0

0

Shots on Goal:
PHI

7

16

9

32

NYR

7

6

7

20

Power Play Conversions:
PHI

1 - of - 3

NYR

0 - of - 3

Game Details

Goal Scoring:  
 
Scorer-Goal #-(Assist/s)  

Team

Time

 
1st Desjardins 2 (Langkow, Recchi) (PP)  

PHI

13:56

 
2nd Zelepukin 3 (unassisted)  

PHI

4:43

  Recchi 3 (LeClair, Lindros)  

PHI

11:12

         
3rd Hull 1 (shorthanded) (Recchi, McGillis)  

PHI

9:34

  Gagne 4 (Recchi)  

PHI

19:41

 
Penalties:  

Team

Time

 
1st Quintal (ob holding)  

NYR

1:41

  Schneider (cross checking)  

NYR

12:58

Kamensky (elbowing)  

NYR

15:38

         
2nd Vanbiesbrouck, served by Renberg (Delay of game)  

PHI

0:40

Berube (roughing)  

PHI

4:56

 
3rd Eaton (ob holding)  

PHI

8:22

  Harvey (instigator, fighting major, misconduct)  

NYR

13:40

  Lindros (elbowing, fighting major)  

PHI

13:40

   

Individual Player Statistics:

G

A

+/-

Shots

Andersson

0

0

+1

2

Berube

0

0

even

1

Bureau

0

0

even

0

Burt

0

0

+2

1

Desjardins

1

0

+2

3

Eaton

0

0

+2

0

Gagne

1

0

+1

2

Hull

1

0

+1

1

Langkow

0

1

+1

3

LeClair

0

1

+1

3

Lindros

0

1

+1

1

McCarthy

0

0

+1

1

McGillis

0

1

+2

1

Reechi

1

3

+3

2

Renberg

0

0

even

1

Richardson

0

0

even

2

Therien

0

0

even

0

Zelepukin

1

0

+1

4



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