New Jersey Devils vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Sunday, December 26, 1982 · Boston Garden
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the New Jersey Devils 5–2 on Sunday, December 26, 1982 at Boston Garden. The Bruins outshot the Devils 40–17.
Goals came from Brad Park, Mike Krushelnyski, Mike O'connell, Peter McNab, Jan Ludvig, Aaron Broten and Barry Pederson.
Pete Peeters made 15 saves on 17 shots for the win; Glenn Resch stopped 35 of 40.
Scoring
1st period
Brad Park (7)Mike Milbury (9)0–108:01 BOS · 
Mike Krushelnyski (13)Rick Middleton (24), Mike O'connell (15)0–210:15 BOS
Mike O'connell (5)Keith Crowder (18), Ray Bourque (16)0–311:31 BOS ·
2nd period
Peter McNab (9)Terry O'Reilly (12), Mike Milbury (10)0–407:34 BOS
Jan Ludvig (5)Joel Quenneville (5), Murray Brumwell (7)1–409:39 NJD
3rd period
Aaron Broten (5)Dave Hutchison (4)2–405:34 NJD
Barry Pederson (23)Rick Middleton (25), Mike Krushelnyski (19)2–515:56 BOS ·
Team stats
NJDBOS
1740
0%0%
0/33/4
86
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:19 into the first period
Mike Kitchen · holding2 min - 11:20 into the first periodJohn Wensink · slashing2 min
- 17:20 into the first period
Terry O'Reilly · holding2 min - 3:24 into the second periodHector Marini · hooking2 min
- 4:41 into the second periodKeith Crowder · tripping2 min
- 10:17 into the third periodMike O'connell · holding2 min
- 14:27 into the third periodYvon Vautour · holding2 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 24Aaron BrotenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 29Jan LudvigR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 3Dave HutchisonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 6Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Murray BrumwellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 7Jeff LarmerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Don LeverC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Bob MacMillanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 15Brent AshtonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Rick MeagherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Paul GagneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 18John WensinkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Yvon VautourR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Hector MariniR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 32Glenn MerkoskyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Bob LorimerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Rob PalmerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 26Mike KitchenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glenn ReschG | L | 40 | 5 | .875 |
| 33Lindsay MiddlebrookG | 0 | 0 | – |
Boston Bruins
| 16Rick MiddletonR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 25Mike KrushelnyskiC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 20Mike O'connellD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 26Mike MilburyD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 8Peter McNabC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 10Barry PedersonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Keith CrowderR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 24Terry O'ReillyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 7Ray BourqueD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Brad ParkD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 12Wayne CashmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Craig MacTavishC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Tom FergusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 29Luc DufourL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 32Bruce CrowderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 6Gord KluzakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Randy HillierD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Marty HoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pete PeetersG | W | 17 | 2 | .882 |
| 30Mike MoffatG | 0 | 0 | – |