Buffalo Sabres vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Thursday, April 4, 1985 · Boston Garden
Game summary
The Boston Bruins beat the Buffalo Sabres 5–3 on Thursday, April 4, 1985 at Boston Garden. The Sabres outshot the Bruins 38–29.
Rick Middleton scored twice, Ray Bourque scored twice and Sean Mckenna scored twice. Geoff Courtnall and Lindy Ruff also scored.
Doug Keans made 35 saves on 38 shots for the win; Bob Sauve stopped 24 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Rick Middleton (28)Ray Bourque (64), Mats Thelin (12)0–113:42 BOS · - Rick Middleton (29)Steve Kasper (22)0–218:53 BOS ·
2nd period
Ray Bourque (19)Unassisted0–306:29 BOS
Sean Mckenna (18)Gilles Hamel (27), Gaetano Orlando (4)1–309:57 BUF · 
Geoff Courtnall (12)Mats Thelin (13)1–417:12 BOS
3rd period
- Ray Bourque (20)Ken Linseman (49), Keith Crowder (38)1–500:22 BOS
- Sean Mckenna (19)Gilles Hamel (28), Gaetano Orlando (5)2–510:20 BUF
Lindy Ruff (12)Gilbert Perreault (51), Larry Playfair (13)3–519:37 BUF
Team stats
BUFBOS
3829
0%0%
1/51/3
1640
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:41 into the first period
Frank Simonetti · holding2 min - 12:13 into the first period
David Fenyves · holding2 min - 17:13 into the first periodDave Donnelly · roughing2 min
- 3:49 into the second periodGeoff Courtnall · fighting5 min
- 3:49 into the second periodBrian Curran · misconduct10 min
- 3:49 into the second periodLarry Playfair · fighting5 min
- 9:19 into the second periodFrank Simonetti · tripping2 min
- 12:16 into the second periodMike Ramsey · holding2 min
- 17:49 into the second periodRay Bourque · hooking2 min
- 2:34 into the third periodBrent Peterson · hooking2 min
- 6:57 into the third periodTerry O'Reilly · high sticking2 min
- 18:01 into the third periodMike O'connell · game misconduct10 min
- 18:01 into the third periodMats Thelin · fighting5 min
- 18:01 into the third periodMike Foligno · fighting5 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Sean MckennaR | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 23Gaetano OrlandoC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 8Robert MongrainC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Craig RamsayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 20Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 13Jim SchoenfeldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 26Dave MaloneyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 31David FenyvesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28Bob SauveG | L | 29 | 5 | .828 |
Boston Bruins
| 7Ray BourqueD | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 16Rick MiddletonR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 27Mats ThelinD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 11Steve KasperC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 13Ken LinsemanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 18Keith CrowderR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 32Geoff CourtnallL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 22Butch GoringC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Charlie SimmerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 24Terry O'ReillyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 25Louis SleigherR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 28Tom FergusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 29Dave DonnellyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 36Dave ReidL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Mike O'connellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 21Frank SimonettiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Mike MilburyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 34Brian CurranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pete PeetersG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Doug KeansG | W | 38 | 3 | .921 |