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Saturday, December 13, 1997 · General Motors Place

Avalanche 5 at Canucks 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 98OVR Peter Forsberg Avalanche First Star 2G · 1A · 8 SOG C 93OVR Joe Sakic Avalanche Second Star 3A · 4 SOG G 88OVR Craig Billington Avalanche Third Star 29 SV · .935

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 7:50 Peter Forsberg (10) PPG Sandis Ozolinsh (9), Joe Sakic (20) COL 1 – 0 VAN
  2. 12:08 Sandis Ozolinsh (4) PPG Peter Forsberg (32), Joe Sakic (21) · Slap COL 2 – 0 VAN
  3. 15:29 Peter Forsberg (11) Valeri Kamensky (13), Alexei Gusarov (4) · Snap COL 3 – 0 VAN
  4. 18:49 Mark Messier (12) Grant Ledyard (11), Pavel Bure (19) COL 3 – 1 VAN
  5. 19:24 Stephane Yelle (5) Uwe Krupp (11), Eric Lacroix (9) COL 4 – 1 VAN

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 7:50 Dana Murzyn (4) Dave Scatchard (4) · Wrist COL 4 – 2 VAN
  2. 19:45 Jari Kurri (3) Joe Sakic (22) COL 5 – 2 VAN

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Peter Forsberg C 2 1 8 0 0 -1 23:23 2.78
Joe Sakic C 0 3 4 0 0 +1 22:41 2.23
Sandis Ozolinsh D 1 1 1 0 0 -1 14:06 1.35
Jari Kurri R 1 0 3 0 0 +1 17:33 1.13
Stephane Yelle C 1 0 1 6 1 +1 17:37 1.13
Valeri Kamensky L 0 1 3 0 0 0 19:25 0.90
Uwe Krupp D 0 1 0 0 1 +1 22:40 0.83
Alexei Gusarov D 0 1 0 1 0 +1 23:37 0.83
Eric Lacroix L 0 1 1 2 1 0 12:26 0.75
Claude Lemieux R 0 0 3 1 0 0 17:41 0.27
Eric Messier L 0 0 2 2 1 +1 20:32 0.15
Rene Corbet L 0 0 1 0 0 0 8:41 0.08
Jeff Odgers R 0 0 0 0 0 +1 6:33 -0.23
Adam Foote D 0 0 0 3 0 +2 18:48 -0.23
Adam Deadmarsh R 0 0 1 0 0 0 11:09 -0.35
Sylvain Lefebvre D 0 0 0 2 1 -1 13:54 -0.35
Shean Donovan R 0 0 0 1 0 0 9:35 -0.38
Jon Klemm D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 9:52 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Craig Billington W 31 29 2 .935 60:00 1.40

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pavel Bure R 0 1 6 0 0 0 23:31 1.13
Mark Messier C 1 0 4 2 0 -1 23:41 0.90
Grant Ledyard D 0 1 1 6 1 +1 19:05 0.90
Dana Murzyn D 1 0 2 1 1 +1 18:22 0.68
Jyrki Lumme D 0 0 2 0 0 0 13:37 0.20
Trevor Linden C 0 0 2 5 1 0 22:50 0.15
Adrian Aucoin D 0 0 1 1 0 0 2:06 0.08
Donald Brashear L 0 0 0 2 0 +1 14:12 0.05
Dave Babych D 0 0 5 6 1 -2 31:30 0.03
Markus Naslund L 0 0 0 0 0 0 2:43 0.00
Mike Sillinger C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1:49 0.00
Mattias Ohlund D 0 0 3 4 3 -2 16:34 -0.02
Dave Scatchard C 0 1 1 3 0 -1 14:44 -0.03
Scott Walker R 0 0 0 4 0 -1 17:27 -0.10
Martin Gelinas L 0 0 0 0 0 0 6:26 -0.15
Alexander Mogilny R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 20:39 -0.35
Brian Noonan R 0 0 1 1 0 -1 17:12 -0.45
Gino Odjick L 0 0 1 0 0 0 9:23 -1.20
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kirk McLean L 15 11 4 .733 20:00 -1.90
Arturs Irbe — 12 12 0 1.000 39:33 1.20