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Saturday, January 31, 1998 · San Jose Arena

Avalanche 2 at Sharks 5

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 77OVR Owen Nolan Sharks First Star 1G · 1A · 2 SOG L 94OVR Jeff Friesen Sharks Second Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 57OVR Stephane Yelle Avalanche Third Star 2A · 0 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:41 Owen Nolan (7) Mike Ricci (12) · Slap COL 0 – 1 SJS
  2. 10:11 Jeff Friesen (20) SHG Owen Nolan (22) · Wrist COL 0 – 2 SJS

2nd Period

  1. 10:40 Andrei Zyuzin (3) Stephane Matteau (10), John MacLean (14) COL 0 – 3 SJS
  2. 17:22 Marco Sturm (9) PPG John MacLean (15), Marcus Ragnarsson (13) · Backhand COL 0 – 4 SJS
  3. 19:26 Tony Granato (8) PPG Jeff Friesen (17) · Snap COL 0 – 5 SJS
  4. 19:41 Rene Corbet (14) Stephane Yelle (10) · Wrist COL 1 – 5 SJS

3rd Period

  1. 9:31 Shean Donovan (5) Stephane Yelle (11), Eric Messier (10) COL 2 – 5 SJS

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Stephane Yelle C 0 2 0 2 1 +2 15:15 1.60
Shean Donovan R 1 0 6 0 0 +2 13:17 1.35
Rene Corbet L 1 0 1 0 0 +2 12:21 0.75
Eric Messier L 0 1 0 1 0 -1 13:43 0.48
Jari Kurri R 0 0 3 1 0 0 13:35 0.22
Adam Deadmarsh R 0 0 3 1 0 0 18:41 0.22
Joe Sakic C 0 0 4 0 0 -1 18:33 0.15
Sylvain Lefebvre D 0 0 1 1 0 0 16:56 0.08
Alexei Gusarov D 0 0 1 0 0 0 19:32 0.08
Adam Foote D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 20:23 0.02
Eric Lacroix L 0 0 0 1 0 0 12:14 0.00
Jon Klemm D 0 0 0 0 0 0 11:26 0.00
Uwe Krupp D 0 0 1 0 0 0 18:13 -0.08
Peter Forsberg C 0 0 3 0 0 -3 22:32 -0.12
Sandis Ozolinsh D 0 0 1 1 0 -2 20:02 -0.22
Jeff Odgers R 0 0 0 1 0 0 10:55 -0.30
Valeri Kamensky L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 17:50 -0.35
Claude Lemieux R 0 0 0 1 0 -3 16:37 -0.50
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Craig Billington — 11 11 0 1.000 20:00 1.10
Patrick Roy L 19 14 5 .737 40:00 -2.35

San Jose Sharks

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Owen Nolan R 1 1 2 1 1 +1 18:49 1.78
Jeff Friesen L 1 1 4 0 1 +1 16:08 1.73
John MacLean R 0 2 0 0 0 +1 16:47 1.40
Tony Granato R 1 0 4 0 0 0 12:06 1.10
Marcus Ragnarsson D 0 1 1 0 0 +2 22:40 1.00
Andrei Zyuzin D 1 0 2 0 0 +1 17:18 1.00
Stephane Matteau L 0 1 0 0 1 +2 11:55 0.98
Marco Sturm L 1 0 3 0 0 0 13:32 0.93
Mike Ricci C 0 1 0 0 0 0 18:04 0.63
Todd Gill D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 21:50 0.30
Ron Sutter C 0 0 2 0 0 0 10:38 0.15
Bernie Nicholls C 0 0 4 0 0 -1 14:11 0.10
Murray Craven L 0 0 2 0 1 0 14:19 0.05
Bill Houlder D 0 0 3 0 1 0 18:30 -0.03
Dave Lowry L 0 0 3 0 0 0 9:40 -0.15
Shawn Burr L 0 0 0 1 0 -1 15:06 -0.15
Marty McSorley D 0 0 0 1 0 -2 18:38 -0.30
Mike Rathje D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 19:57 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Vernon W 25 23 2 .920 60:00 0.80