Edmonton Oilers vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Tuesday, December 13, 1983 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The New York Islanders beat the Edmonton Oilers 8–5 on Tuesday, December 13, 1983 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Oilers outshot the Islanders 40–35.
Mike Bossy scored twice and Butch Goring scored 4 goals. Bryan Trottier, Kevin Lowe, Duane Sutter, Paul Coffey, Pat Hughes, Willy Lindstrom and Wayne Gretzky also scored.
Billy Smith made 35 saves on 40 shots for the win; Grant Fuhr stopped 28 of 35.
Scoring
1st period
Mike Bossy (22)Bryan Trottier (32), Clark Gillies (7)0–100:28 NYI- Mike Bossy (23)Denis Potvin (27)0–203:51 NYI
Butch Goring (8)Tomas Jonsson (17)0–304:19 NYI
Bryan Trottier (19)Mike Bossy (20), Denis Potvin (28)0–405:17 NYI
Kevin Lowe (4)Willy Lindstrom (4)1–412:13 EDM
Duane Sutter (7)Gord Dineen (2), Brent Sutter (5)1–513:37 NYI
2nd period
- Butch Goring (9)John Tonelli (14)1–605:28 NYI
Paul Coffey (14)Unassisted2–616:54 EDM · - Butch Goring (10)Bobby Nystrom (8), John Tonelli (15)2–717:23 NYI
3rd period
Pat Hughes (9)Dave Hunter (11), Kevin McClelland (5)3–700:30 EDM
Willy Lindstrom (11)Jari Kurri (34), Wayne Gretzky (54)4–714:54 EDM- Butch Goring (11)Unassisted4–817:15 NYI · ·
Wayne Gretzky (31)Willy Lindstrom (5), Paul Coffey (24)5–818:07 EDM ·
Team stats
EDMNYI
4035
0%0%
2/50/2
1521
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:34 into the first period
Lee Fogolin · slashing2 min - 4:34 into the first period
Greg Gilbert · elbowing2 min - 9:17 into the first periodGlenn Anderson · tripping2 min
- 9:47 into the first periodClark Gillies · tripping2 min
- 1:16 into the second periodPaul Coffey · roughing2 min
- 1:16 into the second periodPaul Coffey · slashing2 min
- 1:16 into the second periodJohn Tonelli · roughing2 min
- 1:16 into the second periodJohn Tonelli · slashing2 min
- 9:06 into the second periodWilly Lindstrom · interference2 min
- 12:01 into the second periodTomas Jonsson · tripping2 min
- 16:26 into the second periodDenis Potvin · holding2 min
- 7:26 into the third periodBrent Sutter · hooking2 min
- 15:51 into the third periodKevin McClelland · fighting5 min
- 15:51 into the third periodBrent Sutter · fighting5 min
- 16:33 into the third periodBryan Trottier · roughing2 min
Season series
Edmonton Oilers
| 19Willy LindstromR | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 7Paul CoffeyD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −6 | 5 | – |
| 12Dave HunterL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Pat HughesR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 17Jari KurriR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 24Kevin McClellandR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 4Kevin LoweD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 9Glenn AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 11Mark MessierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 13Ken LinsemanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 15Pat ConacherL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Dave LumleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Lee FogolinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 21Randy GreggD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 2 | – |
| 22Charlie HuddyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 29Don JacksonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Grant FuhrG | L | 35 | 7 | .800 |
| 35Andy MoogG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Islanders
| 91Butch GoringC | 4 | 0 | 4 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 22Mike BossyR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 19Bryan TrottierC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 5 | – |
| 27John TonelliL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 5Denis PotvinD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 9Clark GilliesL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 12Duane SutterR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 21Brent SutterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 23Bobby NystromR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 3Tomas JonssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 34Gord DineenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +4 | 1 | – |
| 14Bob BourneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Greg GilbertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Billy CarrollC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Anders KallurC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Ken MorrowD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 7Stefan PerssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 26Dave LangevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Kelly HrudeyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Billy SmithG | W | 40 | 5 | .875 |