Philadelphia Flyers vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Wednesday, February 23, 1983 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4–2 on Wednesday, February 23, 1983 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Flyers 28–23.
Goals came from Phil Housley, Behn Wilson, Dave Andreychuk, Dale McCourt, Ric Seiling and Mark Howe.
Bob Sauve made 21 saves on 23 shots for the win; Bob Froese stopped 24 of 28.
Scoring
2nd period
Phil Housley (15)Dave Andreychuk (12), Mal Davis (3)0–102:05 BUF · 
Behn Wilson (5)Lindsay Carson (16), Bobby Clarke (53)1–111:44 PHI
3rd period
Dave Andreychuk (10)Paul Cyr (6), Mal Davis (4)1–201:11 BUF
Dale McCourt (11)Unassisted1–308:35 BUF · 
Ric Seiling (15)Gilbert Perreault (33), Gilles Hamel (14)1–412:46 BUF
Mark Howe (17)Brian Propp (32), John Paul Evans (17)2–418:19 PHI
Team stats
PHIBUF
2328
0%0%
0/21/4
1614
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:28 into the first period
Paul Holmgren · interference2 min - 4:11 into the first period
Brent Peterson · tripping2 min - 8:01 into the first periodGlen Cochrane · high sticking2 min
- 9:31 into the first periodPaul Cyr · holding2 min
- 0:49 into the second periodGlen Cochrane · high sticking2 min
- 2:31 into the second periodRic Seiling · roughing2 min
- 2:31 into the second periodFrank Bathe · charging2 min
- 8:22 into the second periodMike Ramsey · high sticking2 min
- 17:39 into the second periodMike Foligno · hooking2 min
- 18:00 into the second periodBehn Wilson · hooking2 min
- 19:11 into the second periodBrad McCrimmon · hooking2 min
- 2:45 into the third periodBrian Propp · slashing2 min
- 7:11 into the third periodSteve Patrick · holding2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodRic Seiling · high sticking2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodBobby Clarke · high sticking2 min
Season series
Philadelphia Flyers
| 16Bobby ClarkeC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Lindsay CarsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 25John Paul EvansC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Brian ProppL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 2Mark HoweD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 3Behn WilsonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 7Bill BarberL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 11Ron FlockhartC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 12Tim KerrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Mark TaylorC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Paul HolmgrenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Ilkka SinisaloR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 27Darryl SittlerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 5Frank BatheD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 8Brad MarshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Miroslav DvorakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Glen CochraneD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Pelle LindberghG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Bob FroeseG | L | 28 | 4 | .857 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 25Mal DavisL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 7Dale McCourtC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 8Tony McKegneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Steve PatrickR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Hannu VirtaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 31David FenyvesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jacques CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 28Bob SauveG | W | 23 | 2 | .913 |