St. Louis Blues vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Wednesday, December 31, 1997 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the St. Louis Blues 5–2 on Wednesday, December 31, 1997 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Blues 30–19.
Doug Brown scored twice. Joey Kocur, Jamie Rivers, Kirk Maltby, Darren Turcotte and Brendan Shanahan also scored.
Scoring
1st period
Joey Kocur (6)Doug Brown (10), Viacheslav Fetisov (6)0–105:37 DET
Jamie Rivers (1)Jim Campbell (12), Pierre Turgeon (18)1–119:55 STL ·
2nd period
Doug Brown (11)Larry Murphy (28)1–213:24 DET- Doug Brown (12)Nicklas Lidstrom (18), Vyacheslav Kozlov (15)1–317:27 DET ·
3rd period
Kirk Maltby (8)Darren McCarty (15), Steve Yzerman (24)1–403:08 DET
Darren Turcotte (6)Craig Conroy (16), Chris Pronger (12)2–414:23 STL
Brendan Shanahan (18)Steve Yzerman (25), Darren McCarty (16)2–519:24 DET ·
Team stats
STLDET
1930
53%47%
1/51/7
1612
2421
134
15
42
Penalties
- 8:04 into the first period
Brendan Shanahan · tripping obstruction2 min - 11:06 into the first periodTomas Holmstrom · holding2 min
- 11:57 into the first period
Chris Pronger · slashing2 min - 15:12 into the first periodTomas Holmstrom · roughing2 min
- 15:12 into the first periodMarc Bergevin · roughing2 min
- 18:14 into the first periodBrent Gilchrist · slashing2 min
- 0:19 into the second periodChris Pronger · tripping2 min
- 5:15 into the second periodCraig Conroy · interference2 min
- 9:30 into the second periodChris Pronger · slashing2 min
- 12:03 into the second periodViacheslav Fetisov · high sticking2 min
- 13:19 into the second periodChris Pronger · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 17:15 into the second periodSteve Duchesne · holding stick obstruction2 min
- 18:26 into the second periodChris Pronger · cross checking2 min
- 10:58 into the third periodTomas Holmstrom · holding2 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.