Vancouver Canucks vs Colorado Avalanche
Regular season · Tuesday, March 18, 1997 · McNichols Sports Arena
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Vancouver Canucks 4–2 on Tuesday, March 18, 1997 at McNichols Sports Arena. The Avalanche outshot the Canucks 31–23.
Claude Lemieux scored twice. Peter Forsberg, Stephane Yelle, Gino Odjick and Mike Ridley also scored.
Patrick Roy made 21 saves on 23 shots for the win; Corey Hirsch stopped 27 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Peter Forsberg (21)Unassisted0–102:47 COL
Stephane Yelle (8)Eric Lacroix (16), Mike Keane (15)0–217:36 COL
Gino Odjick (5)Alexander Mogilny (38), Scott Walker (12)1–218:16 VAN
2nd period
Claude Lemieux (10)Valeri Kamensky (32), Peter Forsberg (50)1–312:53 COL · 
Mike Ridley (20)Dave Babych (17), Adrian Aucoin (15)2–318:26 VAN
3rd period
- Claude Lemieux (11)Peter Forsberg (51)2–414:54 COL
Team stats
VANCOL
2331
0%0%
0/41/5
1210
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:35 into the first period
Lonny Bohonos · hooking obstruction2 min - 8:30 into the first period
Sandis Ozolinsh · hooking2 min - 13:37 into the first periodChris Joseph · holding2 min
- 19:25 into the first periodValeri Kamensky · roughing2 min
- 19:25 into the first periodValeri Kamensky · roughing2 min
- 19:25 into the first periodLarry Courville · roughing2 min
- 6:00 into the second periodAdrian Aucoin · holding2 min
- 12:10 into the second periodDonald Brashear · tripping2 min
- 14:50 into the second periodMike Keane · high sticking2 min
- 0:29 into the third periodBret Hedican · interference2 min
- 6:11 into the third periodEric Lacroix · interference obstruction2 min
Season series
Vancouver Canucks
| 17Mike RidleyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 24Scott WalkerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 29Gino OdjickL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 89Alexander MogilnyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 6Adrian AucoinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 8Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 14Lonny BohonosR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 18Troy CrowderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Markus NaslundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 22Larry CourvilleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 23Martin GelinasL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 26Mike SillingerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Brian NoonanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 3Bret HedicanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 5Dana MurzynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Leif RohlinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 32Chris JosephD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mike FountainG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Corey HirschG | L | 31 | 4 | .871 |
Colorado Avalanche
| 21Peter ForsbergC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 8 | – |
| 22Claude LemieuxR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 13Valeri KamenskyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 25Mike KeaneR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Stephane YelleC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Eric LacroixL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Mike RicciC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11Keith JonesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Adam DeadmarshR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 19Joe SakicC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 20Rene CorbetL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 48Scott YoungR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Sylvain LefebvreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 4Uwe KruppD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 5Alexei GusarovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 8Sandis OzolinshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Jon KlemmD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 52Adam FooteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 23 | 2 | .913 |