Colorado Avalanche vs Detroit Red Wings
Playoffs · Thursday, May 22, 1997 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Colorado Avalanche 6–0 on Thursday, May 22, 1997 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Avalanche 38–19.
Igor Larionov scored twice and Kirk Maltby scored twice. Vyacheslav Kozlov and Sergei Fedorov also scored.
Mike Vernon made 19 saves on 19 shots for the win; Patrick Roy stopped 20 of 25.
Scoring
1st period
Igor Larionov (3)Vyacheslav Kozlov (2), Martin Lapointe (5)0–101:52 DET · - Igor Larionov (4)Martin Lapointe (6), Brendan Shanahan (7)0–207:15 DET
2nd period
Vyacheslav Kozlov (8)Sergei Fedorov (9), Larry Murphy (6)0–312:24 DET
Sergei Fedorov (4)Nicklas Lidstrom (6), Martin Lapointe (7)0–416:54 DET · 
Kirk Maltby (2)Unassisted0–519:13 DET
3rd period
- Kirk Maltby (3)Joey Kocur (2), Kris Draper (3)0–605:25 DET
Team stats
COLDET
1938
0%0%
0/72/13
128108
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:09 into the first period
Sylvain Lefebvre · roughing2 min - 3:16 into the first periodAlexei Gusarov · hooking2 min
- 13:03 into the first periodPeter Forsberg · elbowing2 min
- 17:14 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 19:55 into the first periodClaude Lemieux · high sticking2 min
- 19:55 into the first periodPatrick Roy · misconduct10 min
- 5:07 into the second period
Bob Rouse · holding2 min - 8:28 into the second periodJon Klemm · holding2 min
- 10:15 into the second periodVyacheslav Kozlov · cross checking2 min
- 16:32 into the second periodAdam Foote · elbowing2 min
- 17:33 into the second periodViacheslav Fetisov · roughing2 min
- 18:13 into the second periodMike Ricci · roughing2 min
- 1:12 into the third periodTomas Sandstrom · interference2 min
- 2:48 into the third periodSandis Ozolinsh · slashing2 min
- 7:13 into the third periodEric Messier · slashing2 min
- 10:35 into the third periodAdam Foote · high sticking2 min
- 10:35 into the third periodAdam Foote · instigator2 min
- 10:35 into the third periodAdam Foote · fighting5 min
- 10:35 into the third periodAdam Foote · misconduct10 min
- 10:35 into the third periodAdam Deadmarsh · roughing2 min
- 10:35 into the third periodAdam Deadmarsh · misconduct10 min
- 10:35 into the third periodViacheslav Fetisov · roughing2 min
- 10:35 into the third periodViacheslav Fetisov · misconduct10 min
- 10:35 into the third periodVladimir Konstantinov · fighting5 min
- 13:26 into the third periodMike Keane · misconduct10 min
- 13:26 into the third periodSylvain Lefebvre · fighting5 min
- 13:26 into the third periodSylvain Lefebvre · misconduct10 min
- 13:26 into the third periodClaude Lemieux · misconduct10 min
- 13:26 into the third periodJoey Kocur · roughing2 min
- 13:26 into the third periodJoey Kocur · roughing2 min
- 13:26 into the third periodJoey Kocur · misconduct10 min
- 13:26 into the third periodBob Rouse · misconduct10 min
- 13:26 into the third periodAaron Ward · fighting5 min
- 13:26 into the third periodAaron Ward · misconduct10 min
- 13:26 into the third periodDarren McCarty · misconduct10 min
- 13:58 into the third periodRene Corbet · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 17:42 into the third periodEric Lacroix · fighting5 min
- 17:42 into the third periodEric Lacroix · misconduct10 min
- 17:42 into the third periodRene Corbet · fighting5 min
- 17:42 into the third periodRene Corbet · game misconduct10 min
- 17:42 into the third periodBrendan Shanahan · fighting5 min
- 17:42 into the third periodBrendan Shanahan · game misconduct10 min
- 17:42 into the third periodMartin Lapointe · clipping2 min
- 17:42 into the third periodMartin Lapointe · instigator2 min
- 17:42 into the third periodMartin Lapointe · fighting5 min
- 17:42 into the third periodMartin Lapointe · misconduct10 min
Season series
Colorado Avalanche
| 9Mike RicciC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 13Valeri KamenskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 18Adam DeadmarshR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 19Joe SakicC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Rene CorbetL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 21Peter ForsbergC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 22Claude LemieuxR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 25Mike KeaneR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Stephane YelleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Eric LacroixL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 29Eric MessierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 48Scott YoungR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Sylvain LefebvreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Aaron MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Alexei GusarovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 8Sandis OzolinshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 24Jon KlemmD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 52Adam FooteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 13 | 1 | .923 | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | L | 25 | 5 | .800 |
Detroit Red Wings
| 20Martin LapointeR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 8Igor LarionovC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 18Kirk MaltbyL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 91Sergei FedorovC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 14Brendan ShanahanL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 26Joey KocurR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 33Kris DraperC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 5Nicklas LidstromD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 55Larry MurphyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 17Doug BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 19Steve YzermanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 25Darren McCartyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Tomas SandstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 2Viacheslav FetisovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 3Bob RouseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 16Vladimir KonstantinovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 27Aaron WardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Mike VernonG | W | 19 | 0 | 1.000 |
| 30Chris OsgoodG | 0 | 0 | – |