Detroit Red Wings vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Saturday, December 27, 1997 · Maple Leaf Gardens
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 8–1 on Saturday, December 27, 1997 at Maple Leaf Gardens. The Red Wings outshot the Maple Leafs 32–30.
Kirk Maltby scored a hat trick. Freddy Modin, Brendan Shanahan, Martin Lapointe, Steve Yzerman, Anders Eriksson and Vyacheslav Kozlov also scored.
Chris Osgood made 29 saves on 30 shots for the win; Felix Potvin stopped 7 of 10.
Scoring
1st period
Freddy Modin (3)Dmitry Yushkevich (3)0–115:47 TOR
2nd period
Brendan Shanahan (17)Bob Rouse (8)1–102:26 DET
Martin Lapointe (8)Brendan Shanahan (18)2–102:44 DET
Steve Yzerman (11)Larry Murphy (25), Tomas Holmstrom (6)3–104:14 DET
Kirk Maltby (5)Nicklas Lidstrom (17), Larry Murphy (26)4–111:51 DET
Anders Eriksson (5)Brent Gilchrist (11), Larry Murphy (27)5–117:22 DET
3rd period
- Kirk Maltby (6)Unassisted6–106:37 DET
Vyacheslav Kozlov (11)Bob Rouse (9)7–113:15 DET- Kirk Maltby (7)Joey Kocur (3), Brent Gilchrist (12)8–115:28 DET ·
Team stats
DETTOR
3230
46%54%
1/70/4
2225
413
68
34
52
Penalties
- 3:47 into the first period
Jamie Pushor · high sticking2 min - 9:25 into the first period
Dmitry Yushkevich · holding2 min - 17:12 into the first periodKris King · slashing2 min
- 5:21 into the second periodBrendan Shanahan · interference2 min
- 9:20 into the second periodSteve Sullivan · roughing2 min
- 9:20 into the second periodSteve Sullivan · roughing2 min
- 10:39 into the second periodBrendan Shanahan · kneeing2 min
- 19:56 into the second periodMathieu Dandenault · elbowing2 min
- 2:21 into the third periodTie Domi · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 9:11 into the third periodBob Rouse · interference2 min
- 12:14 into the third periodBrendan Shanahan · roughing2 min
- 12:14 into the third periodBrendan Shanahan · game misconduct10 min
- 12:14 into the third periodTie Domi · fighting5 min
- 12:14 into the third periodTie Domi · game misconduct10 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 18Kirk MaltbyL | 3 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 4 | 16:45 |
| 55Larry MurphyD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 0 | 20:26 |
| 14Brendan ShanahanL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 15:21 |
| 41Brent GilchristL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 5 | 18:39 |
| 3Bob RouseD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +4 | 0 | 19:36 |
| 13Vyacheslav KozlovL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 15:13 |
| 15Tomas HolmstromL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 09:28 |
| 19Steve YzermanC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 21:27 |
| 20Martin LapointeR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 1 | 12:27 |
| 26Joey KocurR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | 10:44 |
| 5Nicklas LidstromD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +4 | 3 | 26:17 |
| 44Anders ErikssonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 3 | 21:18 |
| 11Mathieu DandenaultR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 07:18 |
| 17Doug BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 15:12 |
| 22Mike KnubleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:47 |
| 25Darren McCartyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 18:53 |
| 4Jamie PushorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 15:57 |
| 28Yan GolubovskyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 13:14 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Chris OsgoodG | W | 30 | 1 | .967 |
| 31Kevin HodsonG | 0 | 0 | – |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 19Freddy ModinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 5 | 11:52 |
| 36Dmitry YushkevichD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 1 | 18:33 |
| 7Derek KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12:13 |
| 11Steve SullivanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13:40 |
| 12Kris KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:01 |
| 13Mats SundinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | 21:53 |
| 14Darby HendricksonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:24 |
| 17Wendel ClarkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 2 | 16:10 |
| 18Alyn McCauleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | 14:39 |
| 20Mike JohnsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 15:44 |
| 21Martin ProchazkaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:11 |
| 22Igor KorolevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 16:40 |
| 28Tie DomiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:43 |
| 2Rob ZettlerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:02 |
| 24Per GustafssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:12 |
| 25Jason SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 20:37 |
| 34Jamie MacounD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 21:25 |
| 72Mathieu SchneiderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 2 | 21:00 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Felix PotvinG | L | 10 | 3 | .700 |
| 30Glenn HealyG | 22 | 5 | .773 |