Hartford Whalers vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Tuesday, November 15, 1983 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The New York Islanders beat the Hartford Whalers 6–4 on Tuesday, November 15, 1983 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Islanders outshot the Whalers 33–30.
Bryan Trottier scored twice and Mike Bossy scored a hat trick. Risto Siltanen, Chris Kotsopoulos, Denis Potvin, Richie Dunn and Ray Neufeld also scored.
Kelly Hrudey made 26 saves on 30 shots for the win; Greg Millen stopped 27 of 33.
Scoring
1st period
Bryan Trottier (8)Mike Bossy (9)0–100:35 NYI
Risto Siltanen (3)Mike Zuke (6), Norm Dupont (9)1–108:48 HFD ·
2nd period
Chris Kotsopoulos (1)Sylvain Turgeon (10), Richie Dunn (7)2–101:32 HFD · 
Denis Potvin (5)Greg Gilbert (13), Gord Lane (2)2–202:38 NYI- Bryan Trottier (9)Mike Bossy (10)2–307:24 NYI
Mike Bossy (12)Bryan Trottier (18)2–418:16 NYI
3rd period
Richie Dunn (2)Richard Yates (1), Paul Macdermid (1)3–403:38 HFD
Ray Neufeld (10)Risto Siltanen (12), Joel Quenneville (2)4–405:06 HFD- Mike Bossy (13)Bryan Trottier (19)4–505:20 NYI
- Mike Bossy (14)Greg Gilbert (14), Bryan Trottier (20)4–606:07 NYI
Team stats
HFDNYI
3033
0%0%
2/60/2
412
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 8:19 into the first period
John Tonelli · cross checking2 min - 13:53 into the first periodAnders Kallur · hooking2 min
- 14:09 into the first period
Mike Zuke · holding2 min - 18:50 into the first periodBob Bourne · interference2 min
- 0:37 into the second periodKen Morrow · hooking2 min
- 8:01 into the second periodSylvain Turgeon · hooking2 min
- 11:28 into the second periodAnders Kallur · holding2 min
- 15:19 into the third periodDenis Potvin · holding2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 4Richie DunnD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 8Risto SiltanenD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 15Norm DupontL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −4 | 1 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Ray NeufeldR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −4 | 4 | – |
| 20Mike ZukeC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Richard YatesC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 29Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Chris KotsopoulosD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 7Steve StoyanovichL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 12Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 3 | – |
| 21Blaine StoughtonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Bob CrawfordR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 32Torrie RobertsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 23Ed HospodarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 27Marty HoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Ed StaniowskiG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Greg MillenG | L | 33 | 6 | .818 |
New York Islanders
| 19Bryan TrottierC | 2 | 3 | 5 | +5 | 6 | – |
| 22Mike BossyR | 3 | 2 | 5 | +4 | 5 | – |
| 17Greg GilbertL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 5Denis PotvinD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +4 | 3 | – |
| 24Gord LaneD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 9Clark GilliesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 12Duane SutterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 14Bob BourneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 20Mats HallinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 21Brent SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 23Bobby NystromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Billy CarrollC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27John TonelliL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Anders KallurC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Tomas JonssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 6Ken MorrowD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 7Stefan PerssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 26Dave LangevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Kelly HrudeyG | W | 30 | 4 | .867 |
| 31Billy SmithG | 0 | 0 | – |