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Wednesday, November 26, 1997 · Capital Centre

Canadiens 6 at Capitals 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 95OVR Mark Recchi Canadiens First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG L 91OVR Shayne Corson Canadiens Second Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG R 78OVR Richard Zednik Capitals Third Star 2G · 6 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:23 Shayne Corson (10) Saku Koivu (18), Mark Recchi (16) · Snap MTL 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 14:05 Shayne Corson (11) PPG Saku Koivu (19), Vladimir Malakhov (14) · Wraparound MTL 2 – 0 WSH
  3. 15:29 Richard Zednik (6) Steve Konowalchuk (7), Mark Tinordi (4) · Snap MTL 2 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 2:47 Richard Zednik (7) Phil Housley (12), Steve Konowalchuk (8) · Wrist MTL 2 – 2 WSH
  2. 4:54 Valeri Bure (7) Martin Rucinsky (9) · Wrist MTL 3 – 2 WSH
  3. 10:53 Peter Bondra (17) Jan Bulis (5), Phil Housley (13) · Wrist MTL 3 – 3 WSH
  4. 14:31 Mark Recchi (11) Martin Rucinsky (10), Vincent Damphousse (10) · Wrist MTL 4 – 3 WSH
  5. 16:42 Stephane Quintal (2) Scott Thornton (3), Darcy Tucker (5) · Wrist MTL 5 – 3 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 2:35 Jeff Toms (2) Sergei Gonchar (3), Phil Housley (14) · Wrist MTL 5 – 4 WSH
  2. 5:18 Mark Recchi (12) Shayne Corson (19), Vincent Damphousse (11) · Wrist MTL 6 – 4 WSH
  3. 8:30 Mark Tinordi (6) Dale Hunter (6), Kelly Miller (1) · Snap MTL 6 – 5 WSH

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mark Recchi R 2 1 4 2 0 +2 20:22 2.73
Shayne Corson L 2 1 4 0 0 0 21:59 2.23
Vincent Damphousse C 0 2 1 0 0 +1 21:35 1.48
Martin Rucinsky L 0 2 3 1 0 +1 19:23 1.48
Saku Koivu C 0 2 2 0 0 +1 17:12 1.40
Valeri Bure R 1 0 5 0 0 0 20:07 1.18
Stephane Quintal D 1 0 1 0 0 +1 18:34 0.98
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 1 0 0 1 +2 21:10 0.87
Scott Thornton L 0 1 1 0 1 -2 14:49 0.50
Darcy Tucker R 0 1 0 0 0 -1 12:26 0.32
Dave Manson D 0 0 3 0 0 0 23:58 0.22
Patrice Brisebois D 0 0 1 0 1 +1 24:59 0.22
Marc Bureau C 0 0 0 2 0 0 12:30 0.00
Craig Rivet D 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:37 0.00
David Ling R 0 0 1 1 0 -1 5:51 -0.02
Matt Higgins C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 5:06 -0.08
Peter Popovic D 0 0 0 0 2 -2 14:38 -0.20
Brett Clark D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 10:07 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault W 31 26 5 .839 60:00 -1.15

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Richard Zednik R 2 0 6 0 0 +2 15:44 2.20
Phil Housley D 0 3 1 0 0 +1 23:37 1.90
Mark Tinordi D 1 1 1 1 1 0 16:07 1.45
Steve Konowalchuk L 0 2 2 1 0 +1 18:11 1.35
Jan Bulis C 0 1 1 0 0 +3 13:55 1.15
Jeff Toms L 1 0 1 0 0 0 8:14 0.83
Dale Hunter C 0 1 2 0 1 0 10:30 0.83
Sergei Gonchar D 0 1 4 0 0 0 17:47 0.83
Peter Bondra R 1 0 4 0 1 -1 29:30 0.75
Kelly Miller L 0 1 0 0 0 0 9:37 0.58
Joe Juneau C 0 0 3 1 1 0 12:27 0.32
Calle Johansson D 0 0 1 0 2 -1 25:00 0.03
Jaroslav Svejkovsky R 0 0 0 0 0 0 2:50 0.00
Ken Klee D 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:35 0.00
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 0 1 1 +1 20:27 0.00
Chris Simon L 0 0 4 1 0 -2 22:05 -0.10
Brendan Witt D 0 0 0 1 1 -1 17:18 -0.10
Adam Oates C 0 0 1 0 0 -3 24:01 -0.32
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bill Ranford L 7 6 1 .857 22:31 -0.15
Olie Kolzig — 20 15 5 .750 36:31 -2.25