Colorado Avalanche vs Chicago Blackhawks
Playoffs · Saturday, April 26, 1997 · United Center
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Chicago Blackhawks 6–3 on Saturday, April 26, 1997 at United Center. The Avalanche outshot the Blackhawks 29–24.
Joe Sakic scored twice and Valeri Kamensky scored twice. Keith Carney, Gary Suter, Tony Amonte, Claude Lemieux and Adam Deadmarsh also scored.
Patrick Roy made 21 saves on 24 shots for the win; Jeff Hackett stopped 23 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Keith Carney (1)Jeff Shantz (4)0–102:46 CHI
Gary Suter (1)Denis Savard (2), Tony Amonte (2)0–210:18 CHI
Tony Amonte (4)Unassisted0–317:28 CHI · 
Joe Sakic (2)Rene Corbet (1)1–318:37 COL ·
2nd period
Valeri Kamensky (4)Claude Lemieux (4), Stephane Yelle (5)2–300:28 COL- Joe Sakic (3)Adam Deadmarsh (4), Scott Young (1)3–315:10 COL
3rd period
- Valeri Kamensky (5)Peter Forsberg (6), Claude Lemieux (5)4–308:00 COL ·
Claude Lemieux (5)Joe Sakic (9), Sandis Ozolinsh (4)5–309:25 COL · 
Adam Deadmarsh (1)Peter Forsberg (7), Claude Lemieux (6)6–317:00 COL
Team stats
COLCHI
2924
0%0%
3/60/3
814
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:41 into the first period
Rene Corbet · interference2 min - 11:10 into the first period
Tony Amonte · high sticking2 min - 14:52 into the first periodEric Daze · holding obstruction2 min
- 17:05 into the first periodEnrico Ciccone · interference obstruction2 min
- 11:46 into the second periodCam Russell · roughing2 min
- 11:46 into the second periodRene Corbet · roughing2 min
- 18:59 into the second periodJoe Sakic · holding2 min
- 7:01 into the third periodSergei Krivokrasov · slashing2 min
- 9:01 into the third periodJim Cummins · boarding2 min
- 14:25 into the third periodEnrico Ciccone · elbowing2 min
- 14:50 into the third periodAdam Deadmarsh · interference obstruction2 min
Season series
Colorado Avalanche
| 22Claude LemieuxR | 1 | 3 | 4 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 19Joe SakicC | 2 | 1 | 3 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 13Valeri KamenskyL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 18Adam DeadmarshR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 21Peter ForsbergC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 20Rene CorbetL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Stephane YelleC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 48Scott YoungR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Sandis OzolinshD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 9Mike RicciC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Keith JonesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Mike KeaneR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 28Eric LacroixL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Sylvain LefebvreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Aaron MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 5Alexei GusarovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 24Jon KlemmD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 52Adam FooteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 24 | 3 | .875 |
Chicago Blackhawks
| 10Tony AmonteR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 11Jeff ShantzC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Denis SavardC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 4Keith CarneyD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Gary SuterD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 14Steve DubinskyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 15Jim CumminsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Kevin MillerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 19Ethan MoreauL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 22Ulf DahlenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Bob ProbertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Sergei KrivokrasovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 38James BlackL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 55Eric DazeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 2Eric WeinrichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 7Chris CheliosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 8Cam RussellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 39Enrico CicconeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Jeff HackettG | L | 29 | 6 | .793 |
| 40Chris TerreriG | 0 | 0 | – |