Hartford Whalers vs Chicago Blackhawks
Regular season · Sunday, October 30, 1983 · Chicago Stadium
Game summary
The Chicago Blackhawks beat the Hartford Whalers 6–1 on Sunday, October 30, 1983 at Chicago Stadium. The Whalers outshot the Blackhawks 35–33.
Denis Savard scored twice. Rich Preston, Al Secord, Steve Larmer, Troy Murray and Richie Dunn also scored.
Tony Esposito made 34 saves on 35 shots for the win; Mike Veisor stopped 27 of 33.
Scoring
1st period
Rich Preston (3)Unassisted0–105:19 CHI · 
Al Secord (2)Steve Larmer (6)0–208:38 CHI
2nd period
Steve Larmer (9)Al Secord (4)0–311:14 CHI
Denis Savard (8)Doug Wilson (7)0–415:38 CHI
3rd period
Troy Murray (4)Tim Higgins (3), Curt Fraser (5)0–502:40 CHI- Denis Savard (9)Steve Larmer (7), Keith Brown (4)0–607:00 CHI
Richie Dunn (1)Ron Francis (10), Doug Sulliman (2)1–613:04 HFD
Team stats
HFDCHI
3533
0%0%
0/30/3
1020
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:08 into the first period
Doug Wilson · tripping2 min - 10:45 into the first periodDarryl Sutter · cross checking2 min
- 11:22 into the first period
Risto Siltanen · holding2 min - 18:49 into the first periodChris Kotsopoulos · tripping2 min
- 3:59 into the second periodBehn Wilson · interference2 min
- 4:11 into the second periodRisto Siltanen · hooking2 min
- 15:05 into the second periodTom Lysiak · game misconduct10 min
- 16:06 into the third periodAl Secord · high sticking2 min
- 16:06 into the third periodAl Secord · roughing2 min
- 16:06 into the third periodMike Crombeen · high sticking2 min
- 16:06 into the third periodMike Crombeen · roughing2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 22Doug SullimanL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Richie DunnD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 12Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 14Greg MaloneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 15Norm DupontL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 17Ray NeufeldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 18Mike CrombeenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Mike ZukeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 21Blaine StoughtonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 25Bob CrawfordR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 32Torrie RobertsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Risto SiltanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 23Ed HospodarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Chris KotsopoulosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 27Marty HoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Greg MillenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Mike VeisorG | L | 33 | 6 | .818 |
Chicago Blackhawks
| 28Steve LarmerR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 18Denis SavardC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 20Al SecordL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 8Curt FraserL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 15Tim HigginsR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 16Rich PrestonR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Troy MurrayC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 4Keith BrownD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 24Doug WilsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 7Ken YaremchukC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 12Tom LysiakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 14Bill GardnerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 27Darryl SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Steve LudzikC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Greg FoxD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 5Jack O'CallahanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 6Bob MurrayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 23Behn WilsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Murray BannermanG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Tony EspositoG | W | 35 | 1 | .971 |