Toronto Maple Leafs vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Friday, December 26, 1997 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4–1 on Friday, December 26, 1997 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Maple Leafs 34–21.
Goals came from Steve Yzerman, Kirk Maltby, Igor Larionov, Steve Sullivan and Joey Kocur.
Chris Osgood made 20 saves on 21 shots for the win; Felix Potvin stopped 30 of 34.
Scoring
1st period
Steve Yzerman (10)Brendan Shanahan (16), Bob Rouse (7)0–108:20 DET
Kirk Maltby (4)Brent Gilchrist (9)0–212:17 DET
Igor Larionov (4)Brendan Shanahan (17), Darren McCarty (13)0–317:50 DET ·
2nd period
Steve Sullivan (5)Sergei Berezin (9)1–303:44 TOR
3rd period
Joey Kocur (5)Brent Gilchrist (10), Larry Murphy (24)1–413:21 DET
Team stats
TORDET
2134
51%49%
0/51/5
2323
2533
124
36
40
Penalties
- 9:15 into the first period
Rob Zettler · interference2 min - 14:28 into the first period
Martin Lapointe · holding stick obstruction2 min - 17:18 into the first periodTie Domi · interference2 min
- 7:15 into the second periodBrendan Shanahan · interference2 min
- 9:34 into the second periodSteve Yzerman · hooking2 min
- 12:38 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 18:23 into the second periodKirk Maltby · roughing2 min
- 18:23 into the second periodDarby Hendrickson · high sticking2 min
- 19:46 into the second periodChris Osgood · delaying game2 min
- 3:44 into the third periodJoey Kocur · roughing2 min
- 3:44 into the third periodJoey Kocur · roughing2 min
- 3:44 into the third periodTie Domi · roughing2 min
- 3:44 into the third periodKris King · roughing2 min
- 3:44 into the third periodKris King · roughing2 min
- 8:08 into the third periodBrendan Shanahan · slashing2 min
- 8:08 into the third periodDarren McCarty · fighting5 min
- 8:08 into the third periodTie Domi · slashing2 min
- 8:08 into the third periodKris King · fighting5 min
- 9:14 into the third periodDmitry Yushkevich · holding2 min
- 15:41 into the third periodAnders Eriksson · hooking2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 11Steve SullivanL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:07 |
| 94Sergei BerezinL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 15:24 |
| 7Derek KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:56 |
| 12Kris KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:58 |
| 13Mats SundinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 20:46 |
| 14Darby HendricksonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:52 |
| 17Wendel ClarkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:19 |
| 18Alyn McCauleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:44 |
| 19Freddy ModinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 11:13 |
| 20Mike JohnsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:47 |
| 22Igor KorolevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 14:16 |
| 28Tie DomiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:09 |
| 2Rob ZettlerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:18 |
| 25Jason SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:05 |
| 34Jamie MacounD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:01 |
| 36Dmitry YushkevichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:30 |
| 38Yannick TremblayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:58 |
| 72Mathieu SchneiderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | 24:39 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Felix PotvinG | L | 34 | 4 | .882 |
| 30Glenn HealyG | 0 | 0 | – |
Detroit Red Wings
| 14Brendan ShanahanL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 16:36 |
| 41Brent GilchristL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | 16:10 |
| 8Igor LarionovC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 06:56 |
| 18Kirk MaltbyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 14:14 |
| 19Steve YzermanC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 19:13 |
| 25Darren McCartyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 14:34 |
| 26Joey KocurR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 08:54 |
| 3Bob RouseD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 16:48 |
| 55Larry MurphyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 24:29 |
| 11Mathieu DandenaultR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:17 |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 6 | 19:07 |
| 15Tomas HolmstromL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:12 |
| 17Doug BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16:32 |
| 20Martin LapointeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:58 |
| 4Jamie PushorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:09 |
| 5Nicklas LidstromD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | 22:46 |
| 28Yan GolubovskyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:02 |
| 44Anders ErikssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23:36 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Chris OsgoodG | W | 21 | 1 | .952 |
| 31Kevin HodsonG | 0 | 0 | – |