Detroit Red Wings vs Colorado Avalanche
Regular season · Saturday, April 18, 1998 · McNichols Sports Arena
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Detroit Red Wings 4–3 on Saturday, April 18, 1998 at McNichols Sports Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Avalanche 38–21.
Claude Lemieux scored twice and Darren McCarty scored twice. Doug Brown, Joe Sakic and Peter Forsberg also scored.
Craig Billington made 35 saves on 38 shots for the win; Kevin Hodson stopped 17 of 21.
Scoring
1st period
Claude Lemieux (25)Aaron Miller (2)0–114:48 COL
2nd period
Doug Brown (19)Tomas Holmstrom (15), Darren McCarty (22)1–105:51 DET- Claude Lemieux (26)Joe Sakic (36), Sandis Ozolinsh (38)1–207:54 COL ·
3rd period
Joe Sakic (27)Tom Fitzgerald (6)1–314:30 COL
Darren McCarty (14)Sergei Fedorov (11), Tomas Holmstrom (16)2–318:18 DET- Darren McCarty (15)Tomas Holmstrom (17), Martin Lapointe (19)3–319:04 DET
Peter Forsberg (25)Claude Lemieux (27), Valeri Kamensky (40)3–419:19 COL
Team stats
DETCOL
3821
60%40%
0/101/6
1846
312
212
22
35
Penalties
- 1:45 into the first period
Sandis Ozolinsh · hooking obstruction2 min - 5:05 into the first periodEric Lacroix · interference2 min
- 8:18 into the first period
Viacheslav Fetisov · roughing2 min - 8:18 into the first periodViacheslav Fetisov · slashing2 min
- 11:50 into the first periodAlexei Gusarov · holding2 min
- 11:50 into the first periodSandis Ozolinsh · misconduct10 min
- 17:16 into the first periodKeith Jones · high sticking2 min
- 19:49 into the first periodSylvain Lefebvre · interference2 min
- 2:49 into the second periodPeter Forsberg · roughing2 min
- 2:49 into the second periodAaron Ward · roughing2 min
- 6:32 into the second periodSergei Fedorov · hooking2 min
- 7:43 into the second periodKirk Maltby · roughing2 min
- 10:45 into the second periodTom Fitzgerald · roughing2 min
- 11:47 into the second periodJoe Sakic · tripping2 min
- 14:13 into the second periodFrancois Leroux · hooking obstruction2 min
- 17:40 into the second periodMartin Lapointe · kneeing2 min
- 19:14 into the second periodRene Corbet · roughing2 min
- 19:14 into the second periodRene Corbet · roughing2 min
- 19:14 into the second periodKirk Maltby · roughing2 min
- 19:14 into the second periodKirk Maltby · roughing2 min
- 5:06 into the third periodViacheslav Fetisov · interference2 min
- 12:22 into the third periodJoe Sakic · hooking obstruction2 min
- 15:05 into the third periodEric Lacroix · roughing2 min
- 18:52 into the third periodEric Lacroix · misconduct10 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 25Darren McCartyR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 5 | 22:25 |
| 96Tomas HolmstromL | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 4 | 16:54 |
| 17Doug BrownR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 20:25 |
| 20Martin LapointeR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:21 |
| 91Sergei FedorovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 26:26 |
| 11Mathieu DandenaultR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:39 |
| 18Kirk MaltbyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14:01 |
| 22Mike KnubleR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:52 |
| 26Joey KocurR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:43 |
| 33Kris DraperC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10:20 |
| 2Viacheslav FetisovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:21 |
| 3Bob RouseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:18 |
| 5Nicklas LidstromD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 19:35 |
| 15Dmitri MironovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 18:24 |
| 27Aaron WardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 12:21 |
| 34Jamie MacounD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 11:36 |
| 44Anders ErikssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:20 |
| 55Larry MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 17:29 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Chris OsgoodG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Kevin HodsonG | L | 21 | 4 | .809 |
Colorado Avalanche
| 22Claude LemieuxR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 2 | 15:23 |
| 19Joe SakicC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 7 | 21:48 |
| 13Valeri KamenskyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 15:28 |
| 14Tom FitzgeraldR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16:18 |
| 21Peter ForsbergC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 21:58 |
| 3Aaron MillerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 22:07 |
| 8Sandis OzolinshD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16:24 |
| 10Warren RychelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:30 |
| 11Keith JonesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 09:37 |
| 16Jeff OdgersR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:18 |
| 17Jari KurriR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 17:16 |
| 20Rene CorbetL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 10:43 |
| 28Eric LacroixL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 11:46 |
| 2Sylvain LefebvreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 22:47 |
| 5Alexei GusarovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:10 |
| 24Jon KlemmD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13:25 |
| 27Francois LerouxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:53 |
| 52Adam FooteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 23:11 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Craig BillingtonG | W | 38 | 3 | .921 |
| 33Patrick RoyG | 0 | 0 | – |