Goalies Flawless In Avs-Blues Tie
Colorado's Patrick Roy and St. Louis' Grant Fuhr both put on flawless performances as the Avalanche and Blues played to a 0-0 tie on Monday night.
Roy stopped 32 shots in the Avalanche net while Fuhr made 22 saves.
Roy, who was involved in a scoreless tie on Nov. 2, 1996 against Buffalo's Dominik Hasek, recorded his 43rd career shutout and second of the season against St. Louis.
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Playing his second game after coming back from an injured groin, Fuhr gained his 24th shutout and first against the Colorado-Quebec franchise.
Fuhr preserved his part of the shutout with a stop of a screened shot by Aaron Miller from the right point three minutes into overtime and seconds later stopped another shot from the point by Miller and a rebound chance by Milan Hejduk that Fuhr dove across the crease to steer away.
Colorado, 0-for-6-on the power play, killed a penalty against Valeri Kamensky in the final 42 seconds. St. Louis, winless in its last five games (0-3-2) never got a shot on goal.
The Avalanche played its second game without leading goal scorer Joe Sakic, who was home in Vancouver with his wife, who underwent an appendectomy last week. Geoff Courtnall sat out his third game with post concussion syndrome.
Most of the scoreless first period was played between the blue lines and with a minimum of quality scoring chances. Roy turned aside a screened shot by Pavol Demitra, one of eight shots directed on goal by the Blues and Claude Lemieux was stopped up close by Fuhr.
Colorado failed on its five power-play chances in the second period, including 32 seconds of a 5-on-3. The Avalanche never had a shot ogoal with Terry Yake and Craig Conroy serving two-minute minors.
The Blues outshot the Avalanche 10-2 in the first 10 minutes of the third period, but Roy stopped long slap shots by Al MacInnis and Conroy. Fuhr had the most brilliant sequence of the period when he blocked successive shots by Adam Deadmarsh from in front of the net.
St. Louis drew a penalty with 4:49 left, but killed it and had the best scoring chance when Michal Handzus went in on a break after Mike Eastwood stole the puck at center ice.
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