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Thursday, October 9, 1997 · McNichols Sports Arena

Sharks 2 at Avalanche 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 91OVR Joe Sakic Avalanche First Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG L 92OVR Valeri Kamensky Avalanche Second Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG D 61OVR Mike Rathje Sharks Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 14:13 Joe Sakic (2) Valeri Kamensky (1), Patrick Roy (1) · Backhand SJS 0 – 1 COL

2nd Period

  1. 4:57 Valeri Kamensky (2) PPG Joe Sakic (2), Uwe Krupp (2) · Tip-in SJS 0 – 2 COL

3rd Period

  1. 2:57 Shean Donovan (1) Mike Rathje (1), Ron Sutter (1) · Backhand SJS 1 – 2 COL
  2. 5:47 Rene Corbet (1) Sylvain Lefebvre (2) · Backhand SJS 1 – 3 COL
  3. 14:49 Mike Rathje (1) Bernie Nicholls (2), Owen Nolan (2) · Wrist SJS 2 – 3 COL

San Jose Sharks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike Rathje D 1 1 4 0 0 +1 23:09 1.53
Shean Donovan R 1 0 4 1 0 +1 8:42 1.00
Owen Nolan R 0 1 0 0 1 +1 16:10 0.78
Bernie Nicholls C 0 1 5 0 0 0 20:38 0.75
Ron Sutter C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 11:24 0.73
Viktor Kozlov C 0 0 6 0 0 0 16:18 0.40
Doug Bodger D 0 0 1 0 5 0 16:57 0.33
Shawn Burr L 0 0 1 1 0 +1 13:20 0.22
Murray Craven L 0 0 2 0 1 0 16:40 0.20
Jeff Friesen L 0 0 3 1 0 0 17:13 0.18
Todd Gill D 0 0 1 0 2 0 16:02 0.13
Tony Granato R 0 0 2 1 0 -1 12:01 0.00
Alexander Korolyuk L 0 0 0 0 0 0 9:01 -0.05
Marcus Ragnarsson D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 18:24 -0.08
Bill Houlder D 0 0 0 0 2 +1 22:42 -0.10
Patrick Marleau C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 7:59 -0.15
Andrei Zyuzin D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 20:10 -0.15
Marco Sturm L 0 0 1 1 0 -1 15:03 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Vernon L 27 24 3 .889 58:50 0.15

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Joe Sakic C 1 1 4 1 0 0 22:59 1.68
Valeri Kamensky L 1 1 2 0 0 +1 19:00 1.53
Rene Corbet L 1 0 2 1 0 +1 12:44 1.05
Uwe Krupp D 0 1 0 0 2 +1 21:09 0.83
Sylvain Lefebvre D 0 1 0 0 2 0 17:33 0.68
Stephane Yelle C 0 0 1 3 4 -1 16:39 0.33
Peter Forsberg C 0 0 5 1 2 0 19:48 0.32
Jari Kurri R 0 0 2 0 1 +1 18:11 0.30
Eric Lacroix L 0 0 0 0 2 +1 11:59 0.20
Adam Deadmarsh R 0 0 5 1 1 0 16:30 0.18
Alexei Gusarov D 0 0 0 1 2 0 21:11 0.10
Aaron Miller D 0 0 0 1 0 0 13:53 0.00
Adam Foote D 0 0 0 1 3 0 18:02 0.00
Claude Lemieux R 0 0 1 0 0 0 17:05 -0.02
Jon Klemm D 0 0 3 0 0 -2 9:45 -0.08
Francois Leroux D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 3:22 -0.10
Sandis Ozolinsh D 0 0 2 1 2 0 18:27 -0.15
Wade Belak R 0 0 0 3 1 -2 5:17 -0.25
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Patrick Roy W 31 29 2 .935 60:00 1.40