Montréal Canadiens vs San Jose Sharks
Regular season · Friday, November 7, 1997 · San Jose Arena
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the San Jose Sharks 4–3 on Friday, November 7, 1997 at San Jose Arena. The Sharks outshot the Canadiens 27–26.
Goals came from Saku Koivu, Patrice Brisebois, Viktor Kozlov, Shayne Corson, Bill Houlder, Todd Gill and Martin Rucinsky.
Scoring
1st period
Saku Koivu (4)Mark Recchi (10), Shayne Corson (14)1–009:42 MTL
Patrice Brisebois (2)Shayne Corson (15), Mark Recchi (11)2–010:11 MTL
Viktor Kozlov (5)Doug Bodger (4), Bernie Nicholls (4)2–116:51 SJS ·
2nd period
Shayne Corson (7)Saku Koivu (12), Vladimir Malakhov (12)3–111:29 MTL · 
Bill Houlder (3)Rich Brennan (1), Marco Sturm (6)3–215:53 SJS ·
3rd period
Todd Gill (5)Patrick Marleau (3), Bernie Nicholls (5)3–302:47 SJS · 
Martin Rucinsky (5)Vincent Damphousse (7), Valeri Bure (6)4–318:30 MTL
Team stats
MTLSJS
2627
42%58%
1/53/7
1612
410
13
23
55
Penalties
- 1:36 into the first period
Andrei Nazarov · holding2 min - 4:34 into the first period
Scott Thornton · interference2 min - 12:32 into the first periodVladimir Malakhov · interference2 min
- 12:32 into the first periodAndrei Nazarov · roughing2 min
- 15:33 into the first periodDarcy Tucker · boarding2 min
- 18:04 into the first periodScott Thornton · roughing2 min
- 0:45 into the second periodShayne Corson · hooking obstruction2 min
- 2:56 into the second periodShean Donovan · holding2 min
- 7:29 into the second periodAndrei Nazarov · interference2 min
- 10:36 into the second periodRich Brennan · interference2 min
- 14:46 into the second periodMartin Rucinsky · holding2 min
- 17:09 into the second periodMartin Rucinsky · hooking obstruction2 min
- 1:25 into the third periodStephane Quintal · roughing2 min
- 4:12 into the third periodMarcus Ragnarsson · slashing2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.