Detroit Red Wings vs San Jose Sharks
Regular season · Saturday, March 15, 1997 · San Jose Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the San Jose Sharks 7–4 on Saturday, March 15, 1997 at San Jose Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Sharks 32–24.
Jeff Friesen scored twice and Sergei Fedorov scored twice. Darren McCarty, Bob Rouse, Brendan Shanahan, Joey Kocur, Darren Turcotte, Stephen Guolla and Vyacheslav Kozlov also scored.
Chris Osgood made 20 saves on 24 shots for the win; Ed Belfour stopped 25 of 32.
Scoring
1st period
Darren McCarty (18)Nicklas Lidstrom (35), Brendan Shanahan (36)1–006:56 DET · 
Bob Rouse (4)Sergei Fedorov (28), Igor Larionov (36)2–009:24 DET · 
Jeff Friesen (24)Unassisted2–114:35 SJS · 
Sergei Fedorov (26)Vyacheslav Kozlov (19), Vladimir Konstantinov (26)3–117:31 DET ·
2nd period
- Jeff Friesen (25)Marty McSorley (10), Viktor Kozlov (24)3–204:11 SJS
Brendan Shanahan (43)Nicklas Lidstrom (36), Steve Yzerman (59)4–208:25 DET ·
3rd period
Joey Kocur (2)Kris Draper (5), Darren McCarty (24)5–201:11 DET
Darren Turcotte (13)Tony Granato (13), Andrei Nazarov (13)5–307:47 SJS · 
Stephen Guolla (10)Darren Turcotte (14), Tony Granato (14)5–411:12 SJS · - Sergei Fedorov (27)Viacheslav Fetisov (22), Vladimir Konstantinov (27)6–412:58 DET ·
Vyacheslav Kozlov (22)Unassisted7–413:08 DET
Team stats
DETSJS
3224
0%0%
4/83/9
3835
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:05 into the first period
Jeff Friesen · slashing2 min - 8:26 into the first period
Darren McCarty · hooking obstruction2 min - 12:15 into the first periodSteve Yzerman · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 12:15 into the first periodSteve Yzerman · misconduct10 min
- 12:15 into the first periodJeff Friesen · roughing2 min
- 12:50 into the first periodViacheslav Fetisov · high sticking2 min
- 15:41 into the first periodBrendan Shanahan · roughing2 min
- 15:41 into the first periodOwen Nolan · roughing2 min
- 15:41 into the first periodRon Sutter · high sticking2 min
- 15:41 into the first periodRon Sutter · high sticking2 min
- 17:09 into the first periodDarren McCarty · slashing2 min
- 17:09 into the first periodMarty McSorley · cross checking2 min
- 17:09 into the first periodMarty McSorley · roughing2 min
- 18:28 into the first periodSergei Fedorov · slashing2 min
- 8:04 into the second periodStephen Guolla · high sticking2 min
- 8:59 into the second periodVladimir Konstantinov · hooking2 min
- 12:07 into the second periodIgor Larionov · tripping2 min
- 12:07 into the second periodVladimir Konstantinov · cross checking2 min
- 12:07 into the second periodTodd Gill · spearing5 min
- 12:07 into the second periodTodd Gill · game misconduct10 min
- 16:18 into the second periodVyacheslav Kozlov · slashing2 min
- 16:41 into the second periodBrendan Shanahan · holding2 min
- 17:57 into the second periodOwen Nolan · roughing2 min
- 1:45 into the third periodKris Draper · holding2 min
- 6:56 into the third periodJoey Kocur · roughing2 min
- 9:18 into the third periodVladimir Konstantinov · interference2 min
- 11:57 into the third periodShean Donovan · interference2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 91Sergei FedorovC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 14Brendan ShanahanL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 25Darren McCartyR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Nicklas LidstromD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Vladimir KonstantinovD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 8Igor LarionovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Steve YzermanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 26Joey KocurR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 33Kris DraperC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Viacheslav FetisovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 3Bob RouseD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Doug BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Martin LapointeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 28Tomas SandstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 37Tim TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Jamie PushorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Chris OsgoodG | W | 24 | 4 | .833 |
| 31Kevin HodsonG | 0 | 0 | – |
San Jose Sharks
| 8Darren TurcotteC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Tony GranatoR | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 39Jeff FriesenL | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 17Stephen GuollaC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 62Andrei NazarovL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 33Marty McSorleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Owen NolanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 12Ron SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 19Tim HunterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Bob ErreyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 42Shean DonovanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Doug BodgerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 4Greg HawgoodD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 10Marcus RagnarssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Todd GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 40Mike RathjeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 44Vlastimil KroupaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20Ed BelfourG | L | 32 | 7 | .781 |
| 32Kelly HrudeyG | 0 | 0 | – |