Vancouver Canucks vs Edmonton Oilers
Regular season · Sunday, December 27, 1998 · Skyreach Centre
Game summary
The Edmonton Oilers beat the Vancouver Canucks 3–0 on Sunday, December 27, 1998 at Skyreach Centre. The Oilers outshot the Canucks 34–25.
Goals came from Tom Poti, Pat Falloon and Kelly Buchberger.
Mikhail Shtalenkov made 25 saves on 25 shots for the win; Garth Snow stopped 31 of 33.
Scoring
2nd period
Tom Poti (3)Dean McAmmond (6), Todd Marchant (8)0–102:34 EDM · 
Pat Falloon (9)Rem Murray (6), Roman Hamrlik (15)0–219:57 EDM
3rd period
Kelly Buchberger (4)Mats Lindgren (8), Janne Niinimaa (9)0–319:14 EDM · ·
Team stats
VANEDM
2534
54%46%
0/51/6
2725
1821
167
2721
46
Penalties
- 2:26 into the first period
Murray Baron · roughing2 min - 5:17 into the first period
Kelly Buchberger · fighting5 min - 5:17 into the first periodChris McAllister · fighting5 min
- 6:28 into the first periodMarty McSorley · roughing2 min
- 10:32 into the first periodMarkus Naslund · roughing2 min
- 11:31 into the first periodDave Scatchard · holding2 min
- 14:43 into the first periodBret Hedican · interference2 min
- 17:24 into the first periodFrantisek Musil · tripping2 min
- 0:36 into the second periodDonald Brashear · slashing2 min
- 3:03 into the second periodKelly Buchberger · fighting5 min
- 3:03 into the second periodDonald Brashear · fighting5 min
- 7:50 into the second periodBoris Mironov · interference2 min
- 17:54 into the second periodMarkus Naslund · slashing2 min
- 8:21 into the third periodAndrei Kovalenko · slashing2 min
- 15:44 into the third periodBoyd Devereaux · fighting5 min
- 15:44 into the third periodBill Muckalt · fighting5 min
- 18:55 into the third periodJosef Beranek · slashing2 min
Season series
Vancouver Canucks
| 8Donald BrashearL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:03 |
| 11Mark MessierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 27:02 |
| 17Bill MuckaltR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 15:01 |
| 19Markus NaslundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | 21:14 |
| 20Dave ScatchardC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15:57 |
| 22Peter ZezelC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 15:27 |
| 24Matt CookeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:51 |
| 26Trent KlattR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10:45 |
| 27Harry YorkC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 21:39 |
| 36Chris McAllisterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:20 |
| 2Mattias OhlundD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 27:59 |
| 3Bret HedicanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12:40 |
| 4Bryan McCabeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 22:31 |
| 6Adrian AucoinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:44 |
| 18Bert RobertssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:25 |
| 23Murray BaronD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:19 |
| 25Steve StaiosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:50 |
| 34Jason StrudwickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 21:37 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Garth SnowG | L | 33 | 2 | .939 |
| 31Corey HirschG | 0 | 0 | – |
Edmonton Oilers
| 10Pat FalloonR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 11:28 |
| 14Mats LindgrenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 10:13 |
| 16Kelly BuchbergerR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 09:40 |
| 17Rem MurrayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 16:03 |
| 26Todd MarchantC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 17:34 |
| 37Dean McAmmondC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 14:22 |
| 5Tom PotiD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 17:30 |
| 22Roman HamrlikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 20:47 |
| 44Janne NiinimaaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 23:34 |
| 9Bill GuerinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 25:19 |
| 19Boyd DevereauxC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:17 |
| 20Josef BeranekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:37 |
| 25Mike GrierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:54 |
| 51Andrei KovalenkoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:27 |
| 94Ryan SmythL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:35 |
| 2Boris MironovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | 24:31 |
| 8Frantisek MusilD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:57 |
| 33Marty McSorleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 17:30 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Bob EssensaG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Mikhail ShtalenkovG | W | 25 | 0 | 1.000 |