Boston Bruins vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Tuesday, March 22, 1983 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the New York Islanders 3–1 on Tuesday, March 22, 1983 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Bruins outshot the Islanders 23–20.
Goals came from Wayne Cashman, Rick Middleton, Mike Bossy and Tom Fergus.
Pete Peeters made 19 saves on 20 shots for the win; Billy Smith stopped 20 of 23.
Scoring
1st period
Wayne Cashman (4)Ray Bourque (47), Mike O'connell (36)1–009:37 BOS
2nd period
Rick Middleton (43)Unassisted2–001:06 BOS
Mike Bossy (55)Tomas Jonsson (32), Denis Potvin (49)2–113:11 NYI · 
Tom Fergus (27)Luc Dufour (11), Bruce Crowder (18)3–118:18 BOS
Team stats
BOSNYI
2320
0%0%
0/21/3
86
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:14 into the first period
Ray Bourque · holding2 min - 7:34 into the first period
Denis Potvin · holding2 min - 12:36 into the first periodBarry Pederson · roughing2 min
- 12:36 into the first periodMats Hallin · high sticking2 min
- 2:59 into the second periodAnders Kallur · hooking2 min
- 11:54 into the second periodMike Milbury · holding2 min
- 4:54 into the third periodTom Fergus · holding2 min
Season series
Boston Bruins
| 12Wayne CashmanL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Rick MiddletonR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 28Tom FergusC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 29Luc DufourL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 32Bruce CrowderR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 7Ray BourqueD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 20Mike O'connellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 8Peter McNabC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 10Barry PedersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 14Craig MacTavishC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Keith CrowderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 21Brad PalmerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Mike KrushelnyskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Gord KluzakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 22Brad ParkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Randy HillierD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Mike MilburyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 27Marty HoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pete PeetersG | W | 20 | 1 | .950 |
| 31Marco BaronG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Islanders
| 22Mike BossyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 3Tomas JonssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 5Denis PotvinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 9Clark GilliesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Duane SutterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Bob BourneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 17Greg GilbertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Bryan TrottierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Mats HallinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Brent SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Billy CarrollC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 27John TonelliL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Anders KallurC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 91Butch GoringC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Mike McEwenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 6Ken MorrowD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 7Stefan PerssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 26Dave LangevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Roland MelansonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Billy SmithG | L | 23 | 3 | .870 |