Buffalo Sabres vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Saturday, October 15, 1983 · Boston Garden
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the Buffalo Sabres 5–3 on Saturday, October 15, 1983 at Boston Garden. The Sabres outshot the Bruins 17–16.
Mike O'connell scored twice, Barry Pederson scored twice and Phil Housley scored twice. Guy Lapointe and Chris Langevin also scored.
Pete Peeters made 14 saves on 17 shots for the win; Tom Barrasso stopped 11 of 16.
Scoring
1st period
Mike O'connell (1)Ray Bourque (6)0–107:34 BOS- Mike O'connell (2)Tom Fergus (2)0–210:49 BOS
Barry Pederson (4)Terry O'Reilly (3), Mike O'connell (1)0–319:57 BOS
2nd period
- Barry Pederson (5)Mike Krushelnyski (4)0–403:43 BOS
3rd period
Guy Lapointe (1)Barry Pederson (2), Rick Middleton (4)0–507:45 BOS · 
Phil Housley (1)Dave Andreychuk (2), Gilbert Perreault (2)1–512:47 BUF · 
Chris Langevin (1)Sean Mckenna (1), Dave Andreychuk (3)2–513:14 BUF- Phil Housley (2)Dale McCourt (3), Ric Seiling (1)3–516:33 BUF ·
Team stats
BUFBOS
1716
0%0%
1/61/6
1919
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:36 into the first period
Gord Kluzak · holding2 min - 6:02 into the first period
Real Cloutier · holding2 min - 11:27 into the first periodGord Kluzak · fighting5 min
- 11:27 into the first periodLarry Playfair · fighting5 min
- 14:27 into the first periodDave Andreychuk · tripping2 min
- 17:29 into the first periodTerry O'Reilly · elbowing2 min
- 17:53 into the first periodMike Krushelnyski · interference2 min
- 17:53 into the first periodReal Cloutier · slashing2 min
- 0:42 into the second periodPete Peeters · delaying game2 min
- 5:50 into the second periodSean Mckenna · hooking2 min
- 2:17 into the third periodGord Kluzak · interference2 min
- 5:11 into the third periodJim Schoenfeld · hooking2 min
- 6:26 into the third periodSean Mckenna · interference2 min
- 9:15 into the third periodLarry Playfair · roughing2 min
- 12:41 into the third periodNevin Markwart · hooking2 min
- 14:36 into the third periodBill Hajt · interference2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 7Dale McCourtC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Sean MckennaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Chris LangevinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 8Real CloutierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 10Craig RamsayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Mike MollerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 3Hannu VirtaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 19Jim WiemerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28Bob SauveG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | L | 16 | 5 | .688 |
Boston Bruins
| 10Barry PedersonC | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Mike O'connellD | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 16Rick MiddletonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Terry O'ReillyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 25Mike KrushelnyskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 28Tom FergusC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 5Guy LapointeD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 7Ray BourqueD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 8Peter McNabC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Steve KasperC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Craig MacTavishC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Nevin MarkwartL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 18Keith CrowderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 29Luc DufourL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 32Bruce CrowderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Gord KluzakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 13Jim SchoenfeldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Mike MilburyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pete PeetersG | W | 17 | 3 | .824 |
| 31Doug KeansG | 0 | 0 | – |