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Wednesday, October 22, 1997 · McNichols Sports Arena

Capitals 3 at Avalanche 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 57OVR Eric Messier Avalanche First Star 2A · 4 SOG RC R 66OVR Wade Belak Avalanche Second Star 1G · 1A · 1 SOG RC C 91OVR Joe Sakic Avalanche Third Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:44 Peter Bondra (4) PPG Phil Housley (3), Calle Johansson (4) · Wrist WSH 1 – 0 COL

2nd Period

  1. 6:03 Michal Pivonka (1) Peter Bondra (5), Mark Tinordi (2) · Tip-in WSH 2 – 0 COL
  2. 7:40 Adam Foote (1) Valeri Kamensky (5), Eric Lacroix (1) · Wrist WSH 2 – 1 COL
  3. 9:15 Adam Oates (4) Phil Housley (4), Jan Benda (3) · Tip-in WSH 3 – 1 COL

3rd Period

  1. 0:37 Valeri Kamensky (5) Eric Messier (4), Claude Lemieux (3) · Wrist WSH 3 – 2 COL
  2. 2:41 Joe Sakic (7) Eric Messier (5), Wade Belak (1) · Wrist WSH 3 – 3 COL
  3. 18:18 Wade Belak (1) Adam Deadmarsh (3), Joe Sakic (8) WSH 3 – 4 COL

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Peter Bondra R 1 1 5 0 0 0 18:02 1.40
Phil Housley D 0 2 1 0 0 -2 22:48 1.03
Michal Pivonka C 1 0 3 1 2 0 16:30 0.93
Adam Oates C 1 0 1 0 1 0 21:25 0.88
Jan Benda C 0 1 2 0 0 0 11:30 0.78
Calle Johansson D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 23:18 0.40
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 1 0 2 +1 19:42 0.38
Mark Tinordi D 0 1 0 3 0 -2 20:00 0.33
Chris Simon L 0 0 3 1 0 0 14:31 0.22
Ken Klee D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 14:26 0.22
Richard Zednik R 0 0 1 0 0 0 7:20 0.08
Joe Juneau C 0 0 1 0 1 0 20:39 0.08
Jan Bulis C 0 0 0 0 0 0 7:41 0.00
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 0 0 1 0 0 12:14 -0.05
Brendan Witt D 0 0 3 1 0 -1 16:25 -0.08
Kelly Miller L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 9:44 -0.30
Jaroslav Svejkovsky R 0 0 0 0 0 -2 6:57 -0.30
Dale Hunter C 0 0 0 0 1 -2 9:17 -0.70
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Olie Kolzig L 31 27 4 .871 58:47 -0.30

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Eric Messier L 0 2 4 0 3 +2 21:54 2.00
Wade Belak R 1 1 1 1 1 +2 5:45 1.80
Joe Sakic C 1 1 2 0 0 +2 20:31 1.63
Valeri Kamensky L 1 1 1 1 0 +1 20:26 1.60
Adam Foote D 1 0 5 0 2 +1 21:30 1.38
Eric Lacroix L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 10:11 0.83
Adam Deadmarsh R 0 1 2 0 0 +1 15:56 0.73
Peter Forsberg C 0 0 4 0 2 +1 21:58 0.50
Uwe Krupp D 0 0 2 0 1 +1 21:37 0.40
Claude Lemieux R 0 1 6 0 0 0 19:38 0.18
Stephane Yelle C 0 0 1 1 3 -1 17:21 0.08
Aaron Miller D 0 0 1 1 0 0 9:54 0.08
Jari Kurri R 0 0 0 0 0 0 15:56 0.00
Jon Klemm D 0 0 0 0 0 0 17:27 0.00
Rene Corbet L 0 0 1 1 0 0 8:29 -0.08
Francois Leroux D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 1:19 -0.08
Sylvain Lefebvre D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 16:39 -0.15
Alexei Gusarov D 0 0 0 0 2 -1 15:53 -0.20
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Patrick Roy W 23 20 3 .870 59:52 -0.25