St. Louis Blues vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Sunday, April 13, 1997 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The St. Louis Blues beat the Detroit Red Wings 3–1 on Sunday, April 13, 1997 at Joe Louis Arena.
Goals came from Stephane Matteau, Pavol Demitra, Kirk Maltby and Joe Murphy.
Grant Fuhr made 23 saves on 24 shots for the win; Chris Osgood stopped 21 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Stephane Matteau (16)Unassisted1–006:32 STL · 
Pavol Demitra (3)Joe Murphy (25), Pierre Turgeon (58)2–013:31 STL ·
2nd period
Kirk Maltby (3)Unassisted2–111:07 DET
3rd period
Joe Murphy (20)Stephane Matteau (20), Pierre Turgeon (59)3–104:40 STL
Team stats
STLDET
2424
0%0%
1/40/10
3614
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:49 into the first period
Al MacInnis · hooking2 min - 10:54 into the first periodMike Peluso · roughing2 min
- 13:11 into the first period
Tomas Sandstrom · hooking obstruction2 min - 16:57 into the first periodStephane Matteau · holding obstruction2 min
- 19:28 into the first periodTim Taylor · roughing2 min
- 0:22 into the second periodChris Pronger · tripping obstruction2 min
- 4:58 into the second periodChris Mcalpine · holding obstruction2 min
- 8:03 into the second periodJoey Kocur · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 8:03 into the second periodJoey Kocur · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 8:03 into the second periodTony Twist · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 8:03 into the second periodChris Mcalpine · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 8:03 into the second periodChris Mcalpine · misconduct10 min
- 8:03 into the second periodRicard Persson · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 11:54 into the second periodChris Pronger · holding obstruction2 min
- 12:32 into the second periodBrendan Shanahan · cross checking2 min
- 12:32 into the second periodDarren McCarty · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 12:32 into the second periodScott Pellerin · roughing2 min
- 14:52 into the second periodJamie Pushor · cross checking2 min
- 15:36 into the second periodPavol Demitra · hooking obstruction2 min
- 5:02 into the third periodGeoff Courtnall · slashing2 min
- 17:28 into the third periodRicard Persson · slashing2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 17Joe MurphyR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 32Stephane MatteauL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 77Pierre TurgeonC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 38Pavol DemitraR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 14Geoff CourtnallL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 18Tony TwistL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Mike PelusoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Craig ConroyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Sergio MomessoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Stephen LeachR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 37Harry YorkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 39Scott PellerinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Al MacInnisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 4Marc BergevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 5Igor KravchukD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Chris McalpineD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Ricard PerssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 44Chris ProngerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Jon CaseyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Grant FuhrG | W | 24 | 1 | .958 |
Detroit Red Wings
| 18Kirk MaltbyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Brendan ShanahanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 15Tomas HolmstromL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Doug BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 19Steve YzermanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Martin LapointeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Darren McCartyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 26Joey KocurR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 28Tomas SandstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 33Kris DraperC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 37Tim TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 91Sergei FedorovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 3Bob RouseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 4Jamie PushorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Nicklas LidstromD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 16Vladimir KonstantinovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 55Larry MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Chris OsgoodG | L | 24 | 3 | .875 |
| 31Kevin HodsonG | 0 | 0 | – |