New Jersey Devils vs Hartford Whalers
Regular season · Wednesday, December 26, 1984 · Hartford Civic Center
Game summary
The Hartford Whalers beat the New Jersey Devils 5–3 on Wednesday, December 26, 1984 at Hartford Civic Center. The Devils outshot the Whalers 35–31.
Sylvain Turgeon scored twice and Kirk Muller scored twice. Sylvain Cote, Mark Paterson, Rocky Trottier and Mark Johnson also scored.
Greg Millen made 32 saves on 35 shots for the win; Hannu Kamppuri stopped 26 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Sylvain Turgeon (10)Mark Johnson (16), Ray Neufeld (14)0–110:20 HFD · 
Sylvain Cote (2)Bob Crawford (12), Torrie Robertson (10)0–213:14 HFD
Mark Paterson (1)Ron Francis (21)0–314:43 HFD
Kirk Muller (7)Phil Russell (5)1–315:30 NJD
3rd period
Rocky Trottier (3)Pat Verbeek (6), Paul Gagne (7)2–303:23 NJD- Sylvain Turgeon (11)Mark Johnson (17), Ray Neufeld (15)2–404:41 HFD
- Kirk Muller (8)Uli Hiemer (10), Aaron Broten (13)3–412:43 NJD ·
Mark Johnson (12)Sylvain Turgeon (11), Ray Neufeld (16)3–514:11 HFD
Team stats
NJDHFD
3531
0%0%
1/61/4
1519
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:10 into the first period
Ray Neufeld · slashing2 min - 6:16 into the first period
Bruce Driver · hooking2 min - 7:40 into the first periodKevin Dineen · fighting5 min
- 7:40 into the first periodRick Meagher · fighting5 min
- 8:06 into the first periodDave Lumley · tripping2 min
- 9:40 into the first periodUli Hiemer · tripping2 min
- 10:24 into the first periodGreg Malone · cross checking2 min
- 10:24 into the first periodPat Verbeek · slashing2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodChris Kotsopoulos · high sticking2 min
- 7:19 into the second periodRay Ferraro · tripping2 min
- 7:47 into the second periodDave Pichette · hooking2 min
- 11:01 into the second periodBob Lorimer · holding2 min
- 10:04 into the third periodSylvain Cote · interference2 min
- 12:02 into the third periodChris Kotsopoulos · roughing2 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 27Kirk MullerL | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 10Aaron BrotenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 12Pat VerbeekR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Paul GagneL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 26Rocky TrottierC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Phil RussellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Uli HiemerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 9Don LeverC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 15John MacLeanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 16Rick MeagherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 18Mel BridgmanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 19Rich PrestonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 22Doug SullimanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 29Jan LudvigR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 2Joe CirellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 4Bob LorimerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8Dave PichetteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 23Bruce DriverD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glenn ReschG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Hannu KamppuriG | L | 31 | 5 | .839 |
Hartford Whalers
| 12Mark JohnsonC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 17Ray NeufeldR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 25Bob CrawfordR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 32Torrie RobertsonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Mark PatersonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 14Greg MaloneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 20Mike ZukeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 22Dave LumleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Pat BoutetteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 29Kevin DineenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 8Risto SiltanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 24Chris KotsopoulosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Greg MillenG | W | 35 | 3 | .914 |
| 31Steve WeeksG | 0 | 0 | – |