Vancouver Canucks vs Colorado Avalanche
Regular season · Monday, December 23, 2002 · Pepsi Center
Game summary
The Colorado Avalanche beat the Vancouver Canucks 5–3 on Monday, December 23, 2002 at Pepsi Center. The Avalanche outshot the Canucks 37–36.
Rob Blake scored twice. Derek Morris, Milan Hejduk, Henrik Sedin, Dean McAmmond, Trevor Letowski and Markus Naslund also scored.
Patrick Roy made 33 saves on 36 shots for the win; Peter Skudra stopped 19 of 23.
Scoring
1st period
Derek Morris (4)Rob Blake (12), Dean McAmmond (2)0–104:00 COL · 
Rob Blake (4)Peter Forsberg (21), Derek Morris (17)0–219:09 COL
2nd period
- Rob Blake (5)Derek Morris (18), Dean McAmmond (3)0–307:02 COL ·
Milan Hejduk (14)Alex Tanguay (8), Peter Forsberg (22)0–415:58 COL
Henrik Sedin (2)Brendan Morrison (21), Markus Naslund (19)1–417:13 VAN · 
Dean McAmmond (6)Steve Reinprecht (10), Radim Vrbata (8)1–518:50 COL ·
3rd period
Trevor Letowski (6)Artem Chubarov (5)2–500:50 VAN
Markus Naslund (23)Sami Salo (7), Brendan Morrison (22)3–517:53 VAN ·
Team stats
VANCOL
3637
59%41%
2/53/6
1917
104
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:15 into the first period
Mats Lindgren · holding2 min - 13:40 into the first periodMats Lindgren · holding2 min
- 0:15 into the second period
Milan Hejduk · holding2 min - 5:24 into the second periodArtem Chubarov · hooking2 min
- 8:04 into the second periodVaclav Nedorost · hooking2 min
- 11:57 into the second periodMatt Cooke · interference goalkeeper2 min
- 16:41 into the second periodRob Blake · high sticking2 min
- 17:27 into the second periodTodd Bertuzzi · holding2 min
- 8:08 into the third periodAdam Foote · holding2 min
- 12:02 into the third periodScott Parker · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 12:02 into the third periodDarren Langdon · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 14:36 into the third periodMurray Baron · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 16:35 into the third periodRob Blake · roughing2 min
- 16:35 into the third periodRob Blake · fighting5 min
- 16:35 into the third periodJarkko Ruutu · fighting5 min
Season series
Vancouver Canucks
| 7Brendan MorrisonC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 21:52 |
| 19Markus NaslundL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 6 | 21:05 |
| 10Trevor LetowskiR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 13:14 |
| 13Artem ChubarovC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 14:53 |
| 33Henrik SedinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12:10 |
| 6Sami SaloD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 21:41 |
| 20Darren LangdonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:44 |
| 22Daniel SedinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12:48 |
| 24Matt CookeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 15:04 |
| 25Mats LindgrenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 11:36 |
| 26Trent KlattR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:34 |
| 37Jarkko RuutuL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 10:02 |
| 44Todd BertuzziR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 23:44 |
| 3Brent SopelD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:47 |
| 5Bryan AllenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | 16:29 |
| 8Marek MalikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:11 |
| 23Murray BaronD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 15:22 |
| 55Ed JovanovskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | 22:20 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Peter SkudraG | L | 23 | 4 | .826 |
| 30Tyler MossG | 14 | 1 | .929 |
Colorado Avalanche
| 37Dean McAmmondC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14:25 |
| 4Rob BlakeD | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 4 | 27:03 |
| 53Derek MorrisD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 3 | 25:52 |
| 21Peter ForsbergC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 18:33 |
| 17Radim VrbataR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | 15:18 |
| 23Milan HejdukR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 16:56 |
| 28Steve ReinprechtC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17:48 |
| 40Alex TanguayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 18:17 |
| 11Jeff ShantzC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 12:58 |
| 12Mike KeaneR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:21 |
| 13Dan HinoteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 08:27 |
| 22Vaclav NedorostC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 09:44 |
| 27Scott ParkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:13 |
| 29Eric MessierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:15 |
| 2Bryan MuirD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 04:05 |
| 7Greg De VriesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22:32 |
| 41Martin SkoulaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 18:18 |
| 52Adam FooteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:45 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1David AebischerG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 36 | 3 | .917 |