Hartford Whalers vs Edmonton Oilers
Regular season · Saturday, November 30, 1985 · Northlands Coliseum
Game summary
The Edmonton Oilers beat the Hartford Whalers 8–5 on Saturday, November 30, 1985 at Northlands Coliseum. The Oilers outshot the Whalers 36–29.
Bob Crawford scored twice, Greg Malone scored twice and Mark Messier scored twice. Dave Hunter, Charlie Huddy, Paul Coffey, Jari Kurri, Wayne Gretzky, Tim Bothwell and Dave Semenko also scored.
Grant Fuhr made 24 saves on 29 shots for the win; Steve Weeks stopped 28 of 36.
Scoring
1st period
Dave Hunter (4)Paul Coffey (17), Wayne Gretzky (32)0–101:51 EDM
Charlie Huddy (2)Glenn Anderson (18), Mark Messier (17)0–204:08 EDM
Bob Crawford (6)Torrie Robertson (12), Greg Malone (6)1–206:42 HFD- Bob Crawford (7)Torrie Robertson (13), Ulf Samuelsson (4)2–212:26 HFD
Paul Coffey (9)Jari Kurri (15)2–313:14 EDM · 
Greg Malone (4)Torrie Robertson (14), Tim Bothwell (3)3–315:26 HFD
Jari Kurri (11)Charlie Huddy (8), Wayne Gretzky (33)3–417:24 EDM
2nd period
Wayne Gretzky (18)Lee Fogolin (6)3–508:19 EDM- Greg Malone (5)Bob Crawford (9), Dave Babych (15)4–509:48 HFD ·
Mark Messier (14)Paul Coffey (18), Mike Krushelnyski (13)4–617:04 EDM ·
3rd period
- Mark Messier (15)Glenn Anderson (19), Charlie Huddy (9)4–701:24 EDM
Tim Bothwell (1)Paul Lawless (5), Stew Gavin (3)5–706:38 HFD
Dave Semenko (4)Wayne Gretzky (34)5–811:36 EDM
Team stats
HFDEDM
2936
0%0%
1/52/3
1216
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:31 into the first period
Paul Coffey · holding2 min - 12:47 into the first periodKevin McClelland · roughing2 min
- 12:47 into the first period
Joel Quenneville · roughing2 min - 12:47 into the first periodJorgen Pettersson · holding2 min
- 6:01 into the second periodDave Semenko · holding2 min
- 8:38 into the second periodSteve Smith · roughing2 min
- 11:19 into the second periodDon Jackson · roughing2 min
- 16:29 into the second periodDave Tippett · holding2 min
- 17:43 into the second periodKevin McClelland · roughing2 min
- 17:43 into the second periodSteve Smith · roughing2 min
- 17:43 into the second periodDana Murzyn · roughing2 min
- 17:43 into the second periodTorrie Robertson · roughing2 min
- 18:03 into the second periodDave Hunter · charging2 min
- 6:59 into the third periodDana Murzyn · holding2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 14Greg MaloneC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25Bob CrawfordR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 32Torrie RobertsonL | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 24Tim BothwellD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 7Stew GavinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 28Paul LawlessL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 11Kevin DineenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 22Jorgen PetterssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 4Dana MurzynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 8Risto SiltanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Steve WeeksG | L | 36 | 8 | .778 |
Edmonton Oilers
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 1 | 3 | 4 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 11Mark MessierC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 7Paul CoffeyD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 22Charlie HuddyD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +4 | 3 | – |
| 9Glenn AndersonR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 17Jari KurriR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 12Dave HunterL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Mike KrushelnyskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Dave SemenkoL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 2Lee FogolinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 10Esa TikkanenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Craig MacTavishC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 18Mark NapierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Kevin McClellandR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Raimo SummanenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 4Kevin LoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Steve SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Don JacksonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Grant FuhrG | W | 29 | 5 | .828 |
| 35Andy MoogG | 0 | 0 | – |