Edmonton Oilers vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Saturday, November 8, 1997 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Edmonton Oilers 2–1 on Saturday, November 8, 1997 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Oilers 25–18.
Goals came from Calle Johansson, Craig Millar and Adam Oates.
Olie Kolzig made 17 saves on 18 shots for the win; Curtis Joseph stopped 23 of 25.
Scoring
1st period
Calle Johansson (7)Adam Oates (9), Phil Housley (9)0–104:48 WSH ·
2nd period
Craig Millar (4)Doug Weight (8), Dean McAmmond (4)1–101:11 EDM
3rd period
Adam Oates (5)Sylvain Cote (2), Peter Bondra (7)1–200:30 WSH
Team stats
EDMWSH
1825
41%59%
0/61/6
1424
1414
910
43
14
Penalties
- 4:08 into the first period
Drake Berehowsky · interference2 min - 4:36 into the first periodBench · coach or manager on the ice2 min
- 8:05 into the first period
Michal Pivonka · holding stick obstruction2 min - 17:06 into the first periodCraig Millar · interference2 min
- 18:43 into the first periodKelly Buchberger · roughing2 min
- 18:43 into the first periodDrew Bannister · roughing2 min
- 18:43 into the first periodAdam Oates · slashing2 min
- 3:42 into the second periodPeter Bondra · hooking2 min
- 10:07 into the second periodPat Peake · hooking2 min
- 13:21 into the second periodRyan Smyth · interference2 min
- 17:05 into the second periodAndrei Kovalenko · high sticking2 min
- 6:08 into the third periodChris Simon · high sticking2 min
- 9:44 into the third periodPat Peake · interference2 min
- 18:04 into the third periodJoe Reekie · interference2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodChris Simon · gross misconduct10 min
Season series
Edmonton Oilers
| 37Dean McAmmondC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 15:52 |
| 39Doug WeightC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 21:14 |
| 32Craig MillarD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 19:06 |
| 7Jason ArnottC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 18:48 |
| 10Steve KellyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:31 |
| 14Mats LindgrenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:38 |
| 16Kelly BuchbergerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:55 |
| 19Boyd DevereauxC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:12 |
| 25Mike GrierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:37 |
| 26Todd MarchantC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 20:50 |
| 28Bill HuardL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:22 |
| 51Andrei KovalenkoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 17:34 |
| 94Ryan SmythL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:07 |
| 2Boris MironovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 25:46 |
| 5Greg De VriesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 19:31 |
| 15Drake BerehowskyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:11 |
| 33Dan McgillisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 21:09 |
| 55Drew BannisterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:54 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Bob EssensaG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Curtis JosephG | L | 25 | 2 | .920 |
Washington Capitals
| 77Adam OatesC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 27:20 |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 23:21 |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 22:01 |
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 25:39 |
| 96Phil HousleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21:15 |
| 8Jan BulisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:32 |
| 10Kelly MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 10:18 |
| 14Pat PeakeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:42 |
| 17Chris SimonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 15:38 |
| 20Michal PivonkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:18 |
| 22Steve KonowalchukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 24:09 |
| 27Craig BerubeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 07:08 |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:54 |
| 44Richard ZednikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 07:42 |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 07:02 |
| 19Brendan WittD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:26 |
| 24Mark TinordiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18:49 |
| 29Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:35 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Bill RanfordG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | W | 18 | 1 | .944 |