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Saturday, October 18, 1997 · Centre Molson

Capitals 3 at Canadiens 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

G 97OVR Olie Kolzig Capitals First Star 37 SV · .949 D 46OVR Brendan Witt Capitals Second Star 2A · 2 SOG · 6 HIT L 91OVR Shayne Corson Canadiens Third Star 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:17 Chris Simon (2) Brendan Witt (3), Peter Bondra (4) · Tip-in WSH 1 – 0 MTL
  2. 12:27 Dave Manson (1) PPG Shayne Corson (5), Sebastien Bordeleau (2) · Snap WSH 1 – 1 MTL
  3. 19:21 Jan Bulis (2) Olie Kolzig (1) · Backhand WSH 2 – 1 MTL

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 7:44 Saku Koivu (1) Stephane Quintal (1), Shayne Corson (6) · Wrist WSH 2 – 2 MTL
  2. 17:45 Kelly Miller (1) SHG Dale Hunter (2), Brendan Witt (4) · Backhand WSH 3 – 2 MTL

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brendan Witt D 0 2 2 6 1 +1 20:44 1.60
Kelly Miller L 1 0 5 2 0 +1 12:27 1.28
Peter Bondra R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 17:51 0.98
Chris Simon L 1 0 3 1 0 0 15:02 0.93
Jan Bulis C 1 0 1 1 0 +1 8:36 0.78
Dale Hunter C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 12:56 0.60
Calle Johansson D 0 0 3 2 1 +1 27:04 0.38
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 0 2 2 0 +1 18:21 0.35
Mark Tinordi D 0 0 4 3 2 0 22:31 0.35
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 3 2 1 0 19:31 0.22
Ken Klee D 0 0 0 0 1 0 12:27 0.05
Michal Pivonka C 0 0 1 1 0 0 16:17 0.02
Jan Benda C 0 0 0 1 0 0 7:18 0.00
Jaroslav Svejkovsky R 0 0 1 1 0 -1 10:45 -0.08
Joe Juneau C 0 0 2 0 0 0 21:04 -0.10
Adam Oates C 0 0 1 1 0 -1 21:07 -0.13
Sergei Gonchar D 0 0 1 1 0 0 17:32 -0.18
Richard Zednik R 0 0 1 2 0 -1 8:04 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Olie Kolzig W 39 37 2 .949 60:00 2.20

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Shayne Corson L 0 2 3 2 0 0 20:58 1.48
Saku Koivu C 1 0 8 0 0 0 19:17 1.25
Dave Manson D 1 0 5 1 1 0 25:01 1.08
Stephane Quintal D 0 1 2 1 2 +1 18:18 1.03
Sebastien Bordeleau C 0 1 2 1 0 -2 14:21 0.38
Valeri Bure R 0 0 5 0 0 0 16:32 0.33
Mark Recchi R 0 0 3 3 0 0 22:35 0.22
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 0 5 3 0 0 23:50 0.18
Marc Bureau C 0 0 0 1 1 -1 10:43 0.05
Turner Stevenson R 0 0 0 3 0 0 7:48 0.00
Darcy Tucker R 0 0 0 3 0 0 8:22 -0.05
Benoit Brunet L 0 0 0 2 1 0 15:41 -0.05
Scott Thornton L 0 0 0 1 0 0 5:33 -0.05
Brett Clark D 0 0 1 3 0 -1 11:11 -0.08
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 1 2 0 0 22:49 -0.08
Vincent Damphousse C 0 0 2 1 1 0 18:36 -0.15
Martin Rucinsky L 0 0 2 2 0 -1 14:05 -0.15
Craig Rivet D 0 0 0 0 1 -1 10:56 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Andy Moog L 33 30 3 .909 59:22 0.75