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Wednesday, November 12, 1997 · Arrowhead Pond

Canadiens 4 at Ducks 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 89OVR Martin Rucinsky Canadiens First Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 90OVR Saku Koivu Canadiens Second Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG D 48OVR Peter Popovic Canadiens Third Star 2A · 0 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:22 Saku Koivu (5) Shayne Corson (16), Peter Popovic (1) · Tip-in MTL 1 – 0 ANA
  2. 9:05 Kevin Todd (2) Unassisted · Snap MTL 1 – 1 ANA

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 11:30 Joe Sacco (1) SHG Unassisted MTL 1 – 2 ANA
  2. 12:38 Martin Rucinsky (7) PPG Stephane Richer (2), Mark Recchi (12) · Slap MTL 2 – 2 ANA
  3. 17:06 Ruslan Salei (3) PPG Dmitri Mironov (9), Steve Rucchin (7) · Slap MTL 2 – 3 ANA
  4. 18:23 Vladimir Malakhov (5) PPG Mark Recchi (13), Saku Koivu (13) · Slap MTL 3 – 3 ANA

Overtime

  1. 4:07 Valeri Bure (6) Martin Rucinsky (7), Peter Popovic (2) · Snap MTL 4 – 3 ANA

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Martin Rucinsky L 1 1 4 1 1 +1 19:53 1.88
Saku Koivu C 1 1 5 0 0 +1 18:03 1.70
Peter Popovic D 0 2 0 0 2 +2 17:37 1.60
Mark Recchi R 0 2 1 1 0 +1 20:42 1.48
Valeri Bure R 1 0 6 1 0 +1 18:58 1.25
Shayne Corson L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 19:24 0.93
Vladimir Malakhov D 1 0 3 4 0 -1 27:04 0.68
Stephane Richer R 0 1 1 0 0 -1 12:53 0.55
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 0 0 1 +2 20:15 0.20
Brian Savage L 0 0 3 1 0 -1 12:32 0.07
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 3 2 1 -1 22:22 0.07
Sebastien Bordeleau C 0 0 0 2 0 0 11:35 0.05
Benoit Brunet L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 15:29 0.00
Scott Thornton L 0 0 0 2 0 0 9:05 0.00
Vincent Damphousse C 0 0 6 3 0 +1 20:22 0.00
Marc Bureau C 0 0 0 1 0 0 9:32 0.00
Craig Rivet D 0 0 0 1 0 0 14:36 -0.53
Dave Manson D 0 0 0 3 0 0 17:51 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault W 25 22 3 .880 64:07 -0.05

Anaheim Ducks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ruslan Salei D 1 0 4 5 2 -1 23:09 1.10
Kevin Todd C 1 0 3 1 0 +1 13:38 1.08
Steve Rucchin C 0 1 3 1 0 0 21:48 0.90
Joe Sacco L 1 0 1 0 0 0 16:24 0.68
Dmitri Mironov D 0 1 3 1 0 -2 25:31 0.60
Pavel Trnka D 0 0 1 1 0 +1 10:34 0.33
Richard Park R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 13:50 0.28
Sean Pronger C 0 0 1 1 0 +1 11:19 0.18
Dave Karpa D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 17:28 0.15
Mark Janssens C 0 0 0 1 1 0 13:14 0.05
Scott Young R 0 0 4 2 1 -2 19:46 0.05
J.J. Daigneault D 0 0 0 4 2 -1 26:29 0.05
Teemu Selanne R 0 0 2 1 0 0 25:21 0.00
Ted Drury C 0 0 1 1 0 0 13:30 -0.02
Tomas Sandstrom R 0 0 0 2 0 -1 9:38 -0.10
Jason Marshall D 0 0 0 5 1 0 24:03 -0.15
Matt Cullen C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 8:59 -0.25
Warren Rychel L 0 0 1 5 2 0 8:30 -1.40
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Guy Hebert L 36 32 4 .889 64:07 0.20