Hartford Whalers vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Saturday, March 26, 1983 · Boston Garden
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the Hartford Whalers 7–4 on Saturday, March 26, 1983 at Boston Garden. The Bruins outshot the Whalers 35–29.
Ray Bourque scored twice and Barry Pederson scored a hat trick. Ron Francis, Tom Fergus, Ray Neufeld, Bruce Crowder, Chris Kotsopoulos and Robert Sullivan also scored.
Pete Peeters made 25 saves on 29 shots for the win; Mike Veisor stopped 28 of 35.
Scoring
1st period
Ron Francis (29)Blaine Stoughton (31), Chris Kotsopoulos (20)1–006:23 HFD · 
Tom Fergus (28)Ray Bourque (49), Bruce Crowder (19)1–108:29 BOS
2nd period
Ray Bourque (21)Barry Pederson (58), Mike Krushelnyski (40)1–203:57 BOS
Barry Pederson (43)Ray Bourque (50), Rick Middleton (43)1–304:30 BOS- Barry Pederson (44)Mike Krushelnyski (41), Rick Middleton (44)1–408:21 BOS
Ray Neufeld (25)Mickey Volcan (13), Mark Johnson (35)2–409:05 HFD- Barry Pederson (45)Peter McNab (51), Rick Middleton (45)2–514:59 BOS ·
Bruce Crowder (21)Randy Hillier (10)2–617:58 BOS
3rd period
Chris Kotsopoulos (4)Ray Neufeld (30), Mark Johnson (36)3–604:28 HFD · 
Robert Sullivan (18)Ray Neufeld (31), Chris Kotsopoulos (21)4–605:27 HFD- Ray Bourque (22)Unassisted4–713:14 BOS
Team stats
HFDBOS
2935
0%0%
2/31/4
108
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:18 into the first period
Randy Hillier · tripping2 min - 13:25 into the first period
Chris Kotsopoulos · cross checking2 min - 18:11 into the first periodBlaine Stoughton · tripping2 min
- 11:26 into the second periodRandy Hillier · roughing2 min
- 11:26 into the second periodBruce Crowder · high sticking2 min
- 11:26 into the second periodMike McDougall · high sticking2 min
- 11:26 into the second periodMike McDougall · roughing2 min
- 3:04 into the third periodLuc Dufour · hooking2 min
- 13:58 into the third periodMark Renaud · hooking2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 17Ray NeufeldR | 1 | 2 | 3 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 24Chris KotsopoulosD | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 12Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 21Blaine StoughtonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 26Robert SullivanL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 4Mickey VolcanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Paul LawlessL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Greg AdamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Merlin MalinowskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 22Doug SullimanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 27Warren MillerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 32Mike McDougallR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Pierre LacroixD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 7Russ AndersonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 8Risto SiltanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 23Ed HospodarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Mark RenaudD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Greg MillenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Mike VeisorG | L | 35 | 7 | .800 |
Boston Bruins
| 10Barry PedersonC | 3 | 1 | 4 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 7Ray BourqueD | 2 | 2 | 4 | +4 | 6 | – |
| 16Rick MiddletonR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 25Mike KrushelnyskiC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 32Bruce CrowderR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 8Peter McNabC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 28Tom FergusC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 23Randy HillierD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +5 | 1 | – |
| 11Steve KasperC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 12Wayne CashmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 14Craig MacTavishC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 21Brad PalmerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Luc DufourL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 6Gord KluzakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Mike O'connellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Brad ParkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Mike MilburyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Marty HoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pete PeetersG | W | 29 | 4 | .862 |
| 31Marco BaronG | 0 | 0 | – |