Edmonton Oilers vs Colorado Avalanche
Regular season · Wednesday, December 27, 2000 · Pepsi Center
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Edmonton Oilers 3–2 on Wednesday, December 27, 2000 at Pepsi Center. The Avalanche outshot the Oilers 31–20.
Goals came from Chris Drury, Janne Niinimaa, Daniel Cleary, Adam Foote and Milan Hejduk.
Patrick Roy made 18 saves on 20 shots for the win; Tommy Salo stopped 28 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Chris Drury (9)Adam Foote (12), Ray Bourque (22)0–116:11 COL
2nd period
Janne Niinimaa (6)Ryan Smyth (17), Doug Weight (33)1–114:12 EDM · 
Daniel Cleary (4)Domenic Pittis (5), Igor Ulanov (9)2–116:08 EDM
3rd period
Adam Foote (3)Ray Bourque (23), Chris Drury (16)2–208:55 COL · 
Milan Hejduk (17)Joe Sakic (29), Alex Tanguay (21)2–312:25 COL
Team stats
EDMCOL
2031
56%44%
1/21/6
168
3537
1713
49
1618
Penalties
- 12:11 into the first period
Domenic Pittis · high sticking2 min - 12:11 into the first periodDomenic Pittis · high sticking2 min
- 17:14 into the first period
Ray Bourque · hooking2 min - 13:17 into the second periodEric Messier · high sticking2 min
- 18:15 into the second periodTom Poti · holding2 min
- 3:49 into the third periodSergei Zholtok · high sticking2 min
- 3:49 into the third periodSergei Zholtok · high sticking2 min
- 8:33 into the third periodTodd Marchant · tripping2 min
- 10:03 into the third periodAlex Tanguay · roughing2 min
- 10:03 into the third periodTodd Marchant · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodRay Bourque · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodRyan Smyth · roughing2 min
Season series
Edmonton Oilers
| 7Daniel ClearyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 10:17 |
| 14Domenic PittisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 09:27 |
| 39Doug WeightC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21:40 |
| 94Ryan SmythL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 19:37 |
| 44Janne NiinimaaD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 24:43 |
| 55Igor UlanovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 23:47 |
| 17Rem MurrayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:42 |
| 18Ethan MoreauL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14:57 |
| 22Anson CarterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:10 |
| 25Mike GrierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 16:07 |
| 26Todd MarchantC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 18:53 |
| 27Georges LaraqueR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:37 |
| 34Sergei ZholtokC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 07:57 |
| 36Shawn HorcoffC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:40 |
| 2Eric BrewerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:24 |
| 5Tom PotiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:21 |
| 21Jason SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 23:22 |
| 23Sean BrownD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:32 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Joaquin GageG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Tommy SaloG | L | 31 | 3 | .903 |
Colorado Avalanche
| 37Chris DruryC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 17:55 |
| 52Adam FooteD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 28:02 |
| 77Ray BourqueD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 26:19 |
| 19Joe SakicC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 22:37 |
| 23Milan HejdukR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 20:27 |
| 40Alex TanguayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 17:23 |
| 11Chris DingmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 05:43 |
| 13Dan HinoteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:43 |
| 14Dave ReidL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:17 |
| 18Adam DeadmarshR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21:55 |
| 21Peter ForsbergC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23:21 |
| 25Shjon PodeinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10:10 |
| 27Scott ParkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 05:43 |
| 29Eric MessierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:29 |
| 3Aaron MillerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 14:57 |
| 7Greg De VriesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 13:58 |
| 24Jon KlemmD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | 17:09 |
| 41Martin SkoulaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:57 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1David AebischerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 20 | 2 | .900 |