San Jose Sharks vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Monday, February 10, 1997 · Centre Molson
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the San Jose Sharks 4–2 on Monday, February 10, 1997 at Centre Molson. The Sharks outshot the Canadiens 49–30.
Goals came from Stephen Guolla, Vincent Damphousse, Turner Stevenson, Vladimir Malakhov, Dody Wood and Martin Rucinsky.
Jose Theodore made 47 saves on 49 shots for the win; Kelly Hrudey stopped 8 of 11.
Scoring
1st period
Stephen Guolla (6)Dody Wood (2)1–001:21 SJS
Vincent Damphousse (21)Martin Rucinsky (19), Valeri Bure (10)1–106:15 MTL · 
Turner Stevenson (5)Darcy Tucker (11), Craig Rivet (4)1–207:56 MTL
Vladimir Malakhov (6)Vincent Damphousse (39), Saku Koivu (27)1–318:11 MTL
3rd period
Dody Wood (2)Owen Nolan (24)2–313:15 SJS
Martin Rucinsky (19)Vincent Damphousse (40), Valeri Bure (11)2–413:26 MTL
Team stats
SJSMTL
4930
0%0%
0/41/5
1816
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:49 into the first period
Dody Wood · holding the stick2 min - 13:35 into the first period
Valeri Bure · slashing2 min - 13:35 into the first periodMarcus Ragnarsson · slashing2 min
- 2:17 into the second periodSebastien Bordeleau · slashing2 min
- 3:33 into the second periodGreg Hawgood · slashing2 min
- 4:18 into the second periodMark Recchi · roughing2 min
- 4:18 into the second periodMarty McSorley · roughing2 min
- 4:18 into the second periodShean Donovan · holding obstruction2 min
- 7:49 into the second periodTurner Stevenson · high sticking2 min
- 7:49 into the second periodDarcy Tucker · roughing2 min
- 7:49 into the second periodDody Wood · roughing2 min
- 14:57 into the second periodMurray Baron · high sticking2 min
- 14:57 into the second periodShean Donovan · boarding2 min
- 5:18 into the third periodMurray Baron · tripping2 min
- 6:30 into the third periodJeff Friesen · tripping2 min
- 9:11 into the third periodCraig Rivet · hooking2 min
- 10:56 into the third periodMarcus Ragnarsson · slashing2 min
Season series
San Jose Sharks
| 16Dody WoodC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 11Owen NolanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 8 | – |
| 17Stephen GuollaC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 7Ville PeltonenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 9Bernie NichollsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 12Ron SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Bob ErreyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 18Chris TancillR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 36Todd EwenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 39Jeff FriesenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 42Shean DonovanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 3Doug BodgerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 4Greg HawgoodD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 10Marcus RagnarssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 23Todd GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 33Marty McSorleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 44Vlastimil KroupaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Wade FlahertyG | 19 | 1 | .947 | |
| 32Kelly HrudeyG | L | 11 | 3 | .727 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 25Vincent DamphousseC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 18Valeri BureR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 26Martin RucinskyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 11Saku KoivuC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 30Turner StevensonR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 42Darcy TuckerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 38Vladimir MalakhovD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 52Craig RivetD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8Mark RecchiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 22Chris MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Marc BureauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 49Brian SavageL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 71Sebastien BordeleauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 3David WilkieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 34Peter PopovicD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 35Jassen CullimoreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 36Murray BaronD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41Jocelyn ThibaultG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 60Jose TheodoreG | W | 49 | 2 | .959 |