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Saturday, December 6, 1997 · McNichols Sports Arena

Canucks 4 at Avalanche 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 98OVR Pavel Bure Canucks First Star 3G · 1A · 7 SOG C 91OVR Joe Sakic Avalanche Second Star 2A · 5 SOG R 64OVR Shean Donovan Avalanche Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:48 Pavel Bure (16) Mark Messier (12) · Wrist VAN 1 – 0 COL
  2. 6:29 Shean Donovan (4) Joe Sakic (17), Jeff Odgers (2) VAN 1 – 1 COL
  3. 10:30 Adam Deadmarsh (9) Peter Forsberg (29) · Wrist VAN 1 – 2 COL

2nd Period

  1. 4:19 Jyrki Lumme (3) PPG Pavel Bure (17), Alexander Mogilny (6) · Wraparound VAN 2 – 2 COL
  2. 6:56 Eric Lacroix (5) Joe Sakic (18), Adam Foote (7) · Wraparound VAN 2 – 3 COL
  3. 12:10 Eric Lacroix (6) Peter Forsberg (30), Uwe Krupp (9) · Wrist VAN 2 – 4 COL
  4. 13:51 Pavel Bure (17) SHG Mark Messier (13) · Wrist VAN 3 – 4 COL

3rd Period

  1. 11:02 Valeri Kamensky (11) Stephane Yelle (6), Shean Donovan (5) · Wrist VAN 3 – 5 COL
  2. 19:08 Alexei Gusarov (2) SHG Unassisted · Wrist VAN 3 – 6 COL
  3. 19:32 Pavel Bure (18) PPG Alexander Mogilny (7), Mattias Ohlund (12) · Wrist VAN 4 – 6 COL

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pavel Bure R 3 1 7 0 0 -1 23:03 3.10
Mark Messier C 0 2 2 0 1 -1 23:52 1.35
Alexander Mogilny R 0 2 3 0 0 -2 24:23 1.18
Mattias Ohlund D 0 1 7 0 1 -1 27:42 1.00
Jyrki Lumme D 1 0 3 0 2 -1 16:03 0.98
Dave Scatchard C 0 0 1 0 0 0 11:43 0.02
Markus Naslund L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 9:57 0.00
Scott Walker R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 8:07 0.00
Bret Hedican D 0 0 2 0 1 -2 20:56 -0.10
Steve Staios D 0 0 0 0 1 0 2:30 -0.10
David Roberts L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 2:21 -0.15
Mike Sillinger C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 6:10 -0.15
Donald Brashear L 0 0 1 2 0 0 9:18 -0.20
Lonny Bohonos R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 5:01 -0.22
Grant Ledyard D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 10:06 -0.30
Martin Gelinas L 0 0 2 0 1 -4 17:54 -0.45
Brian Noonan R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 14:24 -0.52
Dana Murzyn D 0 0 1 0 1 -3 19:41 -0.85
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kirk McLean — 22 19 3 .864 26:56 -0.35
Arturs Irbe L 17 15 2 .882 32:16 0.00

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Joe Sakic C 0 2 5 0 0 +3 23:41 2.13
Shean Donovan R 1 1 3 1 0 +3 10:41 1.90
Eric Lacroix L 2 0 3 2 0 +1 11:33 1.73
Peter Forsberg C 0 2 2 0 0 +1 23:41 1.65
Valeri Kamensky L 1 0 5 0 0 +1 20:45 1.28
Alexei Gusarov D 1 0 1 0 0 +3 15:48 1.28
Adam Foote D 0 1 4 1 2 +1 21:44 1.18
Stephane Yelle C 0 1 2 1 0 +2 18:42 1.08
Uwe Krupp D 0 1 0 0 1 +2 18:54 1.03
Adam Deadmarsh R 1 0 3 0 0 +1 16:04 0.68
Sylvain Lefebvre D 0 0 2 1 1 +2 17:04 0.50
Jeff Odgers R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 2:49 0.40
Claude Lemieux R 0 0 7 0 0 -1 19:37 0.38
Sandis Ozolinsh D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 19:06 0.20
Jon Klemm D 0 0 1 2 1 0 12:14 0.13
Eric Messier L 0 0 1 0 1 0 19:48 0.02
Rene Corbet L 0 0 1 1 0 -1 11:02 -0.08
Francois Leroux D 0 0 0 0 0 0 4:27 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Patrick Roy W 35 31 4 .886 59:47 0.10