Detroit Red Wings vs San Jose Sharks
Regular season · Tuesday, December 16, 1997 · San Jose Arena
Game summary
The San Jose Sharks beat the Detroit Red Wings 5–1 on Tuesday, December 16, 1997 at San Jose Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Sharks 25–19.
Goals came from Al Iafrate, Owen Nolan, Kris Draper, Jeff Friesen, Patrick Marleau and Murray Craven.
Mike Vernon made 24 saves on 25 shots for the win; Kevin Hodson stopped 14 of 18.
Scoring
1st period
Al Iafrate (1)Mike Rathje (7), Bernie Nicholls (9)0–107:48 SJS ·
2nd period
Owen Nolan (5)Marco Sturm (13), Murray Craven (6)0–200:47 SJS
Kris Draper (7)Mike Knuble (4), Bob Rouse (5)1–211:24 DET
Jeff Friesen (15)Marcus Ragnarsson (7)1–318:51 SJS
3rd period
Patrick Marleau (6)Dave Lowry (3), Tony Granato (4)1–402:05 SJS
Murray Craven (7)Marcus Ragnarsson (8)1–518:24 SJS · ·
Team stats
DETSJS
2519
52%48%
0/61/5
1214
912
27
65
210
Penalties
- 6:07 into the first period
Tomas Holmstrom · holding2 min - 17:54 into the first periodAnders Eriksson · high sticking2 min
- 2:20 into the second period
Andrei Nazarov · hooking obstruction2 min - 6:47 into the second periodVyacheslav Kozlov · interference obstruction2 min
- 13:03 into the second periodDarren McCarty · roughing2 min
- 13:03 into the second periodOwen Nolan · holding obstruction2 min
- 13:03 into the second periodOwen Nolan · roughing2 min
- 16:29 into the second periodTodd Gill · holding the stick2 min
- 2:15 into the third periodTony Granato · roughing2 min
- 7:12 into the third periodJeff Friesen · holding2 min
- 9:13 into the third periodSteve Yzerman · hooking2 min
- 10:08 into the third periodKirk Maltby · cross checking2 min
- 17:21 into the third periodTodd Gill · roughing2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 22Mike KnubleR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 09:51 |
| 33Kris DraperC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:07 |
| 3Bob RouseD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 16:45 |
| 8Igor LarionovC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 15:55 |
| 11Mathieu DandenaultR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:11 |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:12 |
| 14Brendan ShanahanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 16:24 |
| 15Tomas HolmstromL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:46 |
| 17Doug BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:09 |
| 18Kirk MaltbyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13:23 |
| 19Steve YzermanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 18:46 |
| 20Martin LapointeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 15:11 |
| 25Darren McCartyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 16:20 |
| 41Brent GilchristL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 15:00 |
| 2Viacheslav FetisovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19:38 |
| 5Nicklas LidstromD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 24:40 |
| 44Anders ErikssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:26 |
| 55Larry MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 21:28 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Chris OsgoodG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Kevin HodsonG | L | 18 | 4 | .778 |
San Jose Sharks
| 22Murray CravenL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 18:54 |
| 10Marcus RagnarssonD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | 18:50 |
| 9Bernie NichollsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 11:43 |
| 11Owen NolanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | 18:37 |
| 14Patrick MarleauC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 10:26 |
| 19Marco SturmL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 13:10 |
| 21Tony GranatoR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 10:28 |
| 26Dave LowryL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 09:49 |
| 39Jeff FriesenL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:55 |
| 40Mike RathjeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 22:06 |
| 43Al IafrateD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 21:50 |
| 15John MacLeanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:42 |
| 18Mike RicciC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:10 |
| 27Alexander KorolyukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:22 |
| 62Andrei NazarovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:34 |
| 2Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 21:01 |
| 20Andrei ZyuzinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 17:31 |
| 23Todd GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:43 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Mike VernonG | W | 25 | 1 | .960 |
| 32Kelly HrudeyG | 0 | 0 | – |