Vancouver Canucks vs San Jose Sharks
Regular season · Wednesday, November 12, 1997 · San Jose Arena
Game summary
The Vancouver Canucks beat the San Jose Sharks 5–2 on Wednesday, November 12, 1997 at San Jose Arena. The Sharks outshot the Canucks 32–24.
Goals came from Pavel Bure, Steve Staios, Trevor Linden, Jyrki Lumme, Jarrod Skalde, Mike Sillinger and Shean Donovan.
Arturs Irbe made 30 saves on 32 shots for the win; Mike Vernon stopped 19 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Pavel Bure (8)Unassisted1–006:27 VAN
Steve Staios (2)Alexander Mogilny (2), Pavel Bure (10)2–017:48 VAN
Trevor Linden (5)Mike Sillinger (4), Markus Naslund (5)3–018:34 VAN
2nd period
Jyrki Lumme (1)Mark Messier (6), Pavel Bure (11)4–000:26 VAN · 
Jarrod Skalde (1)Shean Donovan (2), Rich Brennan (2)4–101:42 SJS
Mike Sillinger (3)Markus Naslund (6), Brian Noonan (3)5–119:43 VAN
3rd period
Shean Donovan (3)Jarrod Skalde (3), Stephane Matteau (4)5–200:49 SJS
Team stats
VANSJS
2432
60%40%
1/50/7
2541
611
74
26
89
Penalties
- 2:22 into the first period
Marty McSorley · interference obstruction2 min - 13:00 into the first period
Donald Brashear · tripping2 min - 14:58 into the first periodSteve Staios · cross checking2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodDody Wood · boarding2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodDody Wood · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodDody Wood · misconduct10 min
- 20:00 into the first periodGrant Ledyard · high sticking2 min
- 4:24 into the second periodMarco Sturm · holding obstruction2 min
- 8:02 into the second periodMarty McSorley · fighting5 min
- 8:02 into the second periodMike Rathje · tripping2 min
- 8:02 into the second periodDonald Brashear · elbowing2 min
- 8:02 into the second periodDonald Brashear · fighting5 min
- 10:07 into the second periodJyrki Lumme · holding the stick2 min
- 13:27 into the second periodOwen Nolan · roughing2 min
- 13:27 into the second periodJyrki Lumme · slashing2 min
- 16:01 into the second periodBret Hedican · interference obstruction2 min
- 17:40 into the second periodMike Vernon · holding obstruction2 min
- 6:33 into the third periodBrian Noonan · holding obstruction2 min
- 7:26 into the third periodDoug Bodger · holding obstruction2 min
- 9:57 into the third periodSteve Staios · hooking obstruction2 min
- 16:31 into the third periodSteve Staios · hooking2 min
- 19:58 into the third periodMarty McSorley · misconduct10 min
Season series
Vancouver Canucks
| 10Pavel BureR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 1 | 23:33 |
| 19Markus NaslundL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 16:02 |
| 26Mike SillingerC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | 21:25 |
| 11Mark MessierC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25:28 |
| 16Trevor LindenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 24:32 |
| 28Brian NoonanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 10:34 |
| 89Alexander MogilnyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 19:23 |
| 21Jyrki LummeD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 22:47 |
| 25Steve StaiosD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15:30 |
| 8Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:04 |
| 17Lonny BohonosR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 01:24 |
| 20Dave ScatchardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:59 |
| 24Scott WalkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 06:15 |
| 36Chris McAllisterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 05:44 |
| 2Mattias OhlundD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19:47 |
| 3Bret HedicanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:40 |
| 4Grant LedyardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21:53 |
| 6Adrian AucoinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 07:19 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Kirk McLeanG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Arturs IrbeG | W | 32 | 2 | .938 |
San Jose Sharks
| 8Jarrod SkaldeC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 17:01 |
| 42Shean DonovanR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 15:59 |
| 37Stephane MatteauL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 16:18 |
| 7Rich BrennanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 17:32 |
| 11Owen NolanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 21:44 |
| 14Patrick MarleauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:30 |
| 16Dody WoodC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 03:05 |
| 17Stephen GuollaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 07:29 |
| 19Marco SturmL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 15:36 |
| 22Murray CravenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 20:52 |
| 25Viktor KozlovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13:00 |
| 39Jeff FriesenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 5 | 18:49 |
| 62Andrei NazarovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 02:49 |
| 2Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 22:25 |
| 3Doug BodgerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25:55 |
| 23Todd GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25:07 |
| 33Marty McSorleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:57 |
| 40Mike RathjeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:23 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Mike VernonG | L | 24 | 5 | .792 |
| 32Kelly HrudeyG | 0 | 0 | – |