St. Louis Blues vs San Jose Sharks
Regular season · Tuesday, March 11, 1997 · San Jose Arena
Game summary
The St. Louis Blues beat the San Jose Sharks 4–3 on Tuesday, March 11, 1997 at San Jose Arena. The Blues outshot the Sharks 27–25.
Pierre Turgeon scored twice. Stephen Guolla, Chris Pronger, Geoff Courtnall, Jeff Friesen and Owen Nolan also scored.
Grant Fuhr made 22 saves on 25 shots for the win; Ed Belfour stopped 23 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Stephen Guolla (9)Bob Errey (5), Marty McSorley (9)0–106:15 SJS
2nd period
Chris Pronger (8)Pierre Turgeon (45), Brett Hull (33)1–100:24 STL · 
Geoff Courtnall (15)Pierre Turgeon (46), Igor Kravchuk (20)2–107:00 STL ·
3rd period
Jeff Friesen (23)Owen Nolan (28), Marcus Ragnarsson (12)2–200:57 SJS
Pierre Turgeon (21)Chris Pronger (20), Igor Kravchuk (21)3–205:21 STL- Pierre Turgeon (22)Stephane Matteau (16)4–210:14 STL
Owen Nolan (28)Unassisted4–318:04 SJS
Team stats
STLSJS
2725
0%0%
2/70/3
1018
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 12:52 into the first period
Joe Murphy · holding the stick2 min - 15:23 into the first period
Owen Nolan · holding obstruction2 min - 19:55 into the first periodMarcus Ragnarsson · tripping obstruction2 min
- 3:00 into the second periodAndrei Nazarov · roughing2 min
- 4:01 into the second periodTodd Gill · high sticking2 min
- 4:01 into the second periodTodd Gill · high sticking2 min
- 5:38 into the second periodMarty McSorley · roughing2 min
- 5:38 into the second periodJoe Murphy · roughing2 min
- 7:16 into the second periodCraig Conroy · hooking obstruction2 min
- 14:30 into the second periodOwen Nolan · holding2 min
- 14:30 into the second periodOwen Nolan · roughing2 min
- 14:30 into the second periodMike Peluso · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 16:31 into the second periodRicard Persson · holding the stick2 min
- 6:15 into the third periodOwen Nolan · roughing2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 77Pierre TurgeonC | 2 | 2 | 4 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 5Igor KravchukD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 44Chris ProngerD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 14Geoff CourtnallL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 16Brett HullR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 32Stephane MatteauL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 17Joe MurphyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 18Tony TwistL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Mike PelusoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Craig ConroyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Craig MacTavishC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 36Robert PetrovickyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 37Harry YorkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 39Scott PellerinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 2Al MacInnisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 4Marc BergevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 19Chris McalpineD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Ricard PerssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Jamie McLennanG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Grant FuhrG | W | 25 | 3 | .880 |
San Jose Sharks
| 11Owen NolanR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 17Stephen GuollaC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Bob ErreyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 39Jeff FriesenL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 10Marcus RagnarssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 33Marty McSorleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Bernie NichollsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 12Ron SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Tim HunterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Tony GranatoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 36Todd EwenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 42Shean DonovanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 62Andrei NazarovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Doug BodgerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Greg HawgoodD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Todd GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 44Vlastimil KroupaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20Ed BelfourG | L | 27 | 4 | .852 |
| 32Kelly HrudeyG | 0 | 0 | – |