San Jose Sharks vs Colorado Avalanche
Regular season · Thursday, October 9, 1997 · McNichols Sports Arena
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the San Jose Sharks 3–2 on Thursday, October 9, 1997 at McNichols Sports Arena. The Sharks outshot the Avalanche 31–27.
Goals came from Joe Sakic, Valeri Kamensky, Shean Donovan, Rene Corbet and Mike Rathje.
Patrick Roy made 29 saves on 31 shots for the win; Mike Vernon stopped 24 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Joe Sakic (2)Valeri Kamensky (1), Patrick Roy (1)0–114:13 COL
2nd period
Valeri Kamensky (2)Joe Sakic (2), Uwe Krupp (2)0–204:57 COL ·
3rd period
Shean Donovan (1)Mike Rathje (1), Ron Sutter (1)1–202:57 SJS
Rene Corbet (1)Sylvain Lefebvre (2)1–305:47 COL
Mike Rathje (1)Bernie Nicholls (2), Owen Nolan (2)2–314:49 SJS
Team stats
SJSCOL
3127
52%48%
0/51/5
1414
514
1122
129
26
Penalties
- 9:16 into the first period
Bernie Nicholls · holding obstruction2 min - 13:56 into the first period
Adam Deadmarsh · slashing2 min - 13:56 into the first periodMarco Sturm · slashing2 min
- 15:02 into the first periodPeter Forsberg · slashing2 min
- 17:47 into the first periodSandis Ozolinsh · high sticking2 min
- 3:26 into the second periodMike Rathje · tripping obstruction2 min
- 6:13 into the second periodAdam Foote · high sticking2 min
- 8:10 into the second periodBill Houlder · interference obstruction2 min
- 11:28 into the second periodValeri Kamensky · interference2 min
- 3:29 into the third periodBill Houlder · interference obstruction2 min
- 6:19 into the third periodSandis Ozolinsh · roughing2 min
- 6:19 into the third periodShean Donovan · roughing2 min
- 6:51 into the third periodMike Rathje · holding2 min
- 10:51 into the third periodClaude Lemieux · interference2 min
Season series
San Jose Sharks
| 40Mike RathjeD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 23:09 |
| 9Bernie NichollsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 20:38 |
| 11Owen NolanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:10 |
| 12Ron SutterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 11:24 |
| 42Shean DonovanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 08:42 |
| 14Patrick MarleauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 07:59 |
| 19Marco SturmL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:03 |
| 21Tony GranatoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 12:01 |
| 22Murray CravenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:40 |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 16:18 |
| 27Alexander KorolyukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:01 |
| 28Shawn BurrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 13:20 |
| 39Jeff FriesenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17:13 |
| 2Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 22:42 |
| 3Doug BodgerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:57 |
| 10Marcus RagnarssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:24 |
| 20Andrei ZyuzinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:10 |
| 23Todd GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:02 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Mike VernonG | L | 27 | 3 | .889 |
| 32Kelly HrudeyG | 0 | 0 | – |
Colorado Avalanche
| 13Valeri KamenskyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 19:00 |
| 19Joe SakicC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 22:59 |
| 20Rene CorbetL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 12:44 |
| 2Sylvain LefebvreD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17:33 |
| 4Uwe KruppD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 21:09 |
| 6Wade BelakR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 05:17 |
| 17Jari KurriR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 18:11 |
| 18Adam DeadmarshR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 16:30 |
| 21Peter ForsbergC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 19:48 |
| 22Claude LemieuxR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:05 |
| 26Stephane YelleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:39 |
| 28Eric LacroixL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 11:59 |
| 3Aaron MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:53 |
| 5Alexei GusarovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:11 |
| 8Sandis OzolinshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:27 |
| 24Jon KlemmD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 09:45 |
| 27Francois LerouxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 03:22 |
| 52Adam FooteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:02 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 31 | 2 | .935 |