Montréal Canadiens vs Ottawa Senators
Regular season · Tuesday, December 23, 1997 · Corel Centre
Game summary
The Ottawa Senators beat the Montréal Canadiens 4–3 in overtime on Tuesday, December 23, 1997 at Corel Centre. The Senators outshot the Canadiens 32–22.
Alexei Yashin scored twice. Marc Bureau, Brett Clark, Sergei Zholtok, Mark Recchi and Chris Phillips also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Marc Bureau (5)Unassisted1–013:02 MTL
Alexei Yashin (15)Shawn McEachern (14)1–118:28 OTT ·
3rd period
- Alexei Yashin (16)Andreas Dackell (10), Janne Laukkanen (11)1–201:15 OTT
Brett Clark (1)Martin Rucinsky (16), Vincent Damphousse (15)2–206:56 MTL
Sergei Zholtok (5)Wade Redden (6)2–309:45 OTT · 
Mark Recchi (17)Brian Savage (5), Saku Koivu (26)3–310:23 MTL
Overtime
Chris Phillips (3)Unassisted3–403:51 OTT
Team stats
MTLOTT
2232
40%60%
0/22/5
126
3239
1210
2524
69
Penalties
- 7:02 into the first period
Patrice Brisebois · hooking obstruction2 min - 14:10 into the first periodSaku Koivu · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 14:10 into the first period
Shaun Van Allen · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min - 18:21 into the first periodMartin Rucinsky · holding2 min
- 19:55 into the first periodDenny Lambert · slashing2 min
- 1:16 into the second periodVladimir Malakhov · cross checking2 min
- 5:02 into the second periodLance Pitlick · holding obstruction2 min
- 4:53 into the third periodVladimir Malakhov · hooking obstruction2 min
- 9:12 into the third periodVincent Damphousse · hooking2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.