Colorado Avalanche vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Saturday, January 3, 1998 · Civic Arena
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5–4 in overtime on Saturday, January 3, 1998 at Civic Arena. The Penguins outshot the Avalanche 31–14.
Valeri Kamensky scored a hat trick. Joe Sakic, Robert Lang, Stephane Yelle, Jaromir Jagr, Robert Dome and Darius Kasparaitis also scored.
Patrick Roy made 27 saves on 31 shots for the win; Peter Skudra stopped 9 of 14.
Scoring
1st period
Valeri Kamensky (13)Shean Donovan (6), Peter Forsberg (38)1–013:21 COL- Valeri Kamensky (14)Peter Forsberg (39), Joe Sakic (27)2–017:38 COL ·
2nd period
Joe Sakic (19)Adam Deadmarsh (12), Sandis Ozolinsh (14)3–008:33 COL
Robert Lang (6)Ian Moran (3), Robert Dome (1)3–108:49 PIT
Stephane Yelle (6)Shean Donovan (7), Jon Klemm (5)4–117:30 COL
3rd period
Jaromir Jagr (20)Ron Francis (31)4–201:03 PIT
Robert Dome (2)Rob Brown (18), Robert Lang (2)4–307:07 PIT
Darius Kasparaitis (2)Brad Werenka (4), Peter Skudra (1)4–410:54 PIT
Overtime
- Valeri Kamensky (15)Claude Lemieux (19), Alexei Gusarov (8)5–403:04 COL
Team stats
COLPIT
1431
40%60%
1/30/5
128
1723
711
515
616
Penalties
- 9:06 into the first period
Stephane Yelle · holding obstruction2 min - 16:39 into the first period
Robert Lang · holding2 min - 17:01 into the first periodJiri Slegr · hooking2 min
- 18:48 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 4:15 into the second periodFrancois Leroux · roughing2 min
- 4:15 into the second periodPeter Ferraro · slashing2 min
- 6:13 into the second periodSandis Ozolinsh · high sticking2 min
- 9:45 into the second periodDarius Kasparaitis · holding2 min
- 12:40 into the second periodStephane Yelle · hooking obstruction2 min
- 15:59 into the third periodClaude Lemieux · interference obstruction2 min
Season series
Colorado Avalanche
| 13Valeri KamenskyL | 3 | 0 | 3 | +1 | 4 | 19:07 |
| 12Shean DonovanR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 09:10 |
| 19Joe SakicC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 21:03 |
| 21Peter ForsbergC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 24:58 |
| 18Adam DeadmarshR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17:41 |
| 22Claude LemieuxR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 22:56 |
| 26Stephane YelleC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16:54 |
| 5Alexei GusarovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | 25:10 |
| 8Sandis OzolinshD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:39 |
| 24Jon KlemmD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 14:10 |
| 16Jeff OdgersR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:29 |
| 17Jari KurriR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 20:05 |
| 28Eric LacroixL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:46 |
| 29Eric MessierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 19:45 |
| 2Sylvain LefebvreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 26:48 |
| 3Aaron MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:01 |
| 4Uwe KruppD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 22:07 |
| 27Francois LerouxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:37 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 31 | 4 | .871 |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 15Robert DomeL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | 12:11 |
| 20Robert LangC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 19:01 |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 25:37 |
| 44Rob BrownR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 21:09 |
| 68Jaromir JagrR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | 28:24 |
| 5Brad WerenkaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20:41 |
| 11Darius KasparaitisD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 18:12 |
| 24Ian MoranD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10:25 |
| 8Garry ValkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 04:23 |
| 14Stu BarnesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 26:28 |
| 17Peter FerraroR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 10:13 |
| 29Tyler WrightC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 04:45 |
| 57Chris FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 10:45 |
| 95Aleksey MorozovR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 09:51 |
| 2Chris TamerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:25 |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28:13 |
| 23Fredrik OlaussonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 17:55 |
| 71Jiri SlegrD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:06 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Peter SkudraG | L | 14 | 5 | .643 |
| 31Ken WreggetG | 0 | 0 | – |