Los Angeles Kings vs Colorado Avalanche
Regular season · Tuesday, January 2, 2001 · Pepsi Center
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Los Angeles Kings 6–2 on Tuesday, January 2, 2001 at Pepsi Center. The Avalanche outshot the Kings 34–29.
Joe Sakic scored twice and Milan Hejduk scored twice. Mathieu Schneider, John Thomas, Alex Tanguay and Aaron Miller also scored.
Patrick Roy made 27 saves on 29 shots for the win; Steve Passmore stopped 28 of 34.
Scoring
1st period
Joe Sakic (21)Greg De Vries (2), Milan Hejduk (18)0–103:02 COL- Joe Sakic (22)Milan Hejduk (19), Alex Tanguay (22)0–209:42 COL
Milan Hejduk (20)Peter Forsberg (21), Joe Sakic (31)0–312:07 COL ·
2nd period
- Milan Hejduk (21)Joe Sakic (32), Alex Tanguay (23)0–403:09 COL
Mathieu Schneider (10)Rob Blake (26), Bryan Smolinski (17)1–411:58 LAK · 
John Thomas (2)Lubomir Visnovsky (18), Steve Reinprecht (13)2–416:23 LAK
Alex Tanguay (15)Joe Sakic (33), Greg De Vries (3)2–517:41 COL
3rd period
Aaron Miller (3)Chris Drury (17), Adam Deadmarsh (6)2–602:36 COL
Team stats
LAKCOL
2934
49%51%
1/41/3
2618
2921
1218
49
1616
Penalties
- 11:17 into the first period
Nelson Emerson · slashing2 min - 11:52 into the first periodRob Blake · cross checking2 min
- 13:03 into the first period
Adam Deadmarsh · fighting5 min - 13:03 into the first periodIan Laperriere · fighting5 min
- 16:13 into the first periodChris Dingman · boarding2 min
- 18:20 into the first periodChris Dingman · fighting5 min
- 18:20 into the first periodStu Grimson · instigator2 min
- 18:20 into the first periodStu Grimson · fighting5 min
- 18:20 into the first periodStu Grimson · misconduct10 min
- 8:44 into the second periodMilan Hejduk · slashing2 min
- 9:52 into the second periodJon Klemm · tripping2 min
- 11:08 into the second periodAdam Foote · boarding2 min
Season series
Los Angeles Kings
| 21Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 17:04 |
| 28Steve ReinprechtC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16:02 |
| 51John ThomasR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 14:30 |
| 4Rob BlakeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 24:11 |
| 10Mathieu SchneiderD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 3 | 23:07 |
| 24Lubomir VisnovskyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17:47 |
| 7Nelson EmersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:59 |
| 9Kelly BuchbergerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 13:44 |
| 15Jozef StumpelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 20:51 |
| 19Bob CorkumC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 06:16 |
| 20Luc RobitailleL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 20:16 |
| 22Ian LaperriereR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | 14:21 |
| 25Eric BelangerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | 17:06 |
| 27Glen MurrayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:58 |
| 32Stu GrimsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | 09:36 |
| 14Mattias NorstromD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:26 |
| 26Rich BrennanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 16:49 |
| 44Jaroslav ModryD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 18:34 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jamie StorrG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Steve PassmoreG | L | 34 | 6 | .824 |
Colorado Avalanche
| 19Joe SakicC | 2 | 3 | 5 | +4 | 3 | 18:48 |
| 23Milan HejdukR | 2 | 2 | 4 | +4 | 5 | 17:22 |
| 40Alex TanguayL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +4 | 3 | 16:09 |
| 7Greg De VriesD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 0 | 19:13 |
| 18Adam DeadmarshR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15:11 |
| 21Peter ForsbergC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 19:09 |
| 37Chris DruryC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 16:26 |
| 3Aaron MillerD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 1 | 17:57 |
| 11Chris DingmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 07:34 |
| 13Dan HinoteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11:48 |
| 14Dave ReidL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 10:31 |
| 25Shjon PodeinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15:00 |
| 27Scott ParkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 08:55 |
| 29Eric MessierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 16:18 |
| 24Jon KlemmD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:30 |
| 41Martin SkoulaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 19:16 |
| 52Adam FooteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 22:21 |
| 77Ray BourqueD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 21:31 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1David AebischerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 29 | 2 | .931 |