Vancouver Canucks vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Tuesday, December 9, 1997 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Vancouver Canucks 7–5 on Tuesday, December 9, 1997 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Canucks 44–32.
Kirk Maltby scored twice and Markus Naslund scored twice. Martin Gelinas, Mark Messier, Vyacheslav Kozlov, Darren McCarty, Steve Yzerman, Brent Gilchrist, Grant Ledyard and Larry Murphy also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Martin Gelinas (3)Mark Messier (14), Jyrki Lumme (8)1–003:37 VAN · 
Kirk Maltby (1)Unassisted1–106:58 DET
Mark Messier (11)Pavel Bure (18), Jyrki Lumme (9)2–109:59 VAN
Vyacheslav Kozlov (9)Doug Brown (7), Mike Knuble (3)2–213:36 DET
Darren McCarty (7)Steve Yzerman (19), Larry Murphy (20)2–315:11 DET · 
Steve Yzerman (9)Nicklas Lidstrom (13), Tomas Holmstrom (5)2–419:01 DET
2nd period
Brent Gilchrist (7)Larry Murphy (21)2–501:22 DET · 
Grant Ledyard (2)Alexander Mogilny (8), Trevor Linden (8)3–508:03 VAN · - Kirk Maltby (2)Mathieu Dandenault (5), Joey Kocur (2)3–613:46 DET
Markus Naslund (5)Bret Hedican (16)4–618:23 VAN ·
3rd period
Larry Murphy (4)Unassisted4–700:18 DET- Markus Naslund (6)Trevor Linden (9), Adrian Aucoin (1)5–718:15 VAN
Team stats
VANDET
3244
45%55%
3/82/6
2923
2323
610
16
36
Penalties
- 0:32 into the first period
Tomas Holmstrom · interference2 min - 0:32 into the first period
Markus Naslund · high sticking2 min - 1:06 into the first periodMark Messier · hooking obstruction2 min
- 2:39 into the first periodMartin Lapointe · interference obstruction2 min
- 4:15 into the first periodGrant Ledyard · interference2 min
- 11:03 into the first periodAnders Eriksson · tripping2 min
- 13:36 into the first periodJamie Pushor · fighting5 min
- 13:36 into the first periodDonald Brashear · roughing2 min
- 13:36 into the first periodDave Scatchard · fighting5 min
- 20:00 into the first periodGino Odjick · misconduct10 min
- 1:06 into the second periodDana Murzyn · tripping2 min
- 6:10 into the second periodViacheslav Fetisov · elbowing2 min
- 8:20 into the second periodMathieu Dandenault · holding2 min
- 9:17 into the second periodMarkus Naslund · interference2 min
- 14:04 into the second periodMike Knuble · interference2 min
- 17:10 into the second periodBrent Gilchrist · hooking obstruction2 min
- 2:29 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 8:34 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 15:55 into the third periodBrent Gilchrist · hooking2 min
Season series
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