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Monday, December 22, 1997 · Centre Molson

Oilers 3 at Canadiens 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 92OVR Doug Weight Oilers First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG L 62OVR Ryan Smyth Oilers Second Star 1G · 1A · 5 SOG G 65OVR Jocelyn Thibault Canadiens Third Star 35 SV · .921

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:33 Brian Savage (9) Mark Recchi (21), Saku Koivu (25) · Wrist EDM 0 – 1 MTL
  2. 6:21 Vincent Damphousse (10) Dave Manson (10), Shayne Corson (25) · Tip-in EDM 0 – 2 MTL
  3. 10:04 Doug Weight (10) PPG Boris Mironov (8), Ryan Smyth (9) · Slap EDM 1 – 2 MTL

2nd Period

  1. 1:23 Doug Weight (11) Unassisted · Slap EDM 2 – 2 MTL
  2. 7:11 Scott Thornton (2) Patrice Brisebois (14), Valeri Bure (17) · Wrist EDM 2 – 3 MTL

3rd Period

  1. 19:50 Ryan Smyth (12) Jason Arnott (11), Doug Weight (22) EDM 3 – 3 MTL

Overtime

No scoring

Edmonton Oilers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Doug Weight C 2 1 4 1 0 +1 23:55 2.43
Ryan Smyth L 1 1 5 0 0 +1 16:09 1.80
Jason Arnott C 0 1 5 2 0 0 23:56 0.90
Boris Mironov D 0 1 5 0 1 -1 28:05 0.80
Dan Mcgillis D 0 0 3 2 0 +2 23:07 0.48
Todd Marchant C 0 0 4 2 0 +1 19:30 0.45
Greg De Vries D 0 0 3 3 2 +1 20:56 0.43
Kelly Buchberger R 0 0 1 4 0 0 19:10 0.13
Dean McAmmond C 0 0 1 2 1 0 20:34 0.13
Andrei Kovalenko R 0 0 1 0 1 0 12:56 0.13
Bryan Marchment D 0 0 4 1 1 -2 25:20 0.00
Mats Lindgren C 0 0 0 1 0 +1 19:17 -0.05
Rem Murray L 0 0 0 4 0 0 16:20 -0.05
Drew Bannister D 0 0 1 1 0 -1 13:29 -0.08
Drake Berehowsky D 0 0 0 2 2 -1 14:43 -0.20
Georges Laraque R 0 0 1 0 0 -2 3:19 -0.22
Steve Kelly C 0 0 0 0 0 -2 4:58 -0.30
Mike Grier R 0 0 0 2 0 -2 5:29 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Essensa T 26 23 3 .885 64:16 0.05

Montréal Canadiens

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mark Recchi R 0 1 2 1 0 +1 24:38 0.93
Vincent Damphousse C 1 0 3 2 1 -1 20:50 0.93
Dave Manson D 0 1 0 2 1 +2 21:12 0.93
Patrice Brisebois D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 19:59 0.93
Brian Savage L 1 0 4 1 0 0 19:30 0.90
Shayne Corson L 0 1 2 1 1 0 23:54 0.83
Saku Koivu C 0 1 1 0 1 0 23:38 0.80
Scott Thornton L 1 0 3 1 1 +1 12:48 0.75
Valeri Bure R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 12:25 0.65
Martin Rucinsky L 0 0 3 0 1 0 20:55 0.32
Marc Bureau C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 12:59 0.15
Sebastien Bordeleau C 0 0 1 1 0 0 4:16 0.08
Darcy Tucker R 0 0 0 0 0 0 8:03 0.00
David Wilkie D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Stephane Quintal D 0 0 0 4 1 0 21:59 0.00
Brett Clark D 0 0 0 2 1 0 14:03 0.00
Vladimir Malakhov D 0 0 4 3 2 -1 26:36 0.00
Peter Popovic D 0 0 0 4 0 0 15:44 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jocelyn Thibault T 38 35 3 .921 65:00 1.25