71.   By adding Popovic, Mathieu Schneider and Jan Mertzig to their blue line, the Rangers have upgraded this core corps around the centerpiece, the captain Brian Leetch.

72.   Carney got his first goal of the season by firing a shot on net from just inside the blue line.

73.   Carpenter was flattened by Marchment, who roared in from inside his blue line before the players collided at the red line.

74.   Carpenter was flattened by Marchment, who roared from inside his blue line before meeting Carpenter at the red line.

75.   Carter started the play by picking up a loose puck inside the circle and passing it out to Jason Allison just inside the blue line.

76.   Center Igor Larionov wheeled around the right circle and fed Lapointe just inside the blue line.

77.   Center Jesse Belanger left the puck for Mellanby shortly past the blue line, and Mellanby skated left and fired.

78.   Center Joe Thornton spanned the blue lines with a pass to Bill Guerin, who from the slot dropped the puck back to Axelsson.

79.   Clark sent a shot wide from the blue line, and Forsberg merely directed it toward the net.

80.   Clark took control of the puck at mid-ice, crossed the blue line and belted a long slapper at Ranford in the Boston net.