Hartford Whalers vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, December 13, 1985 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Hartford Whalers beat the Buffalo Sabres 6–4 on Friday, December 13, 1985 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Whalers outshot the Sabres 31–29.
Paul Lawless scored a hat trick and Dean Evason scored twice. Ric Seiling, Dave Andreychuk, Phil Housley, John Tucker and Risto Siltanen also scored.
Mike Liut made 25 saves on 29 shots for the win; Tom Barrasso stopped 25 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Ric Seiling (7)Pat Hughes (5), Mike Ramsey (8)0–100:38 BUF
Dave Andreychuk (11)Mike Foligno (11), Lindy Ruff (5)0–214:59 BUF
Phil Housley (8)Dave Andreychuk (15), Lindy Ruff (6)0–318:12 BUF
2nd period
Paul Lawless (7)Risto Siltanen (13), Dean Evason (1)1–300:40 HFD · 
John Tucker (10)Mikael Andersson (4), Gilbert Perreault (20)1–403:53 BUF
Dean Evason (1)Stew Gavin (5), Dave Tippett (4)2–409:28 HFD- Paul Lawless (8)Dean Evason (2), Ulf Samuelsson (6)3–417:04 HFD
3rd period
Risto Siltanen (4)Kevin Dineen (12), Dave Tippett (5)4–405:48 HFD- Paul Lawless (9)Stew Gavin (6), Ulf Samuelsson (7)5–417:56 HFD
- Dean Evason (2)Unassisted6–419:18 HFD ·
Team stats
HFDBUF
3129
0%0%
1/40/3
1012
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 12:08 into the first period
Hannu Virta · holding2 min - 18:50 into the first periodLindy Ruff · high sticking2 min
- 0:24 into the second periodMike Ramsey · holding2 min
- 4:17 into the second period
Joel Quenneville · tripping2 min - 10:27 into the second periodTom Barrasso · slashing2 min
- 12:39 into the second periodMike Foligno · high sticking2 min
- 12:39 into the second periodMike Foligno · roughing2 min
- 12:39 into the second periodKevin Dineen · roughing2 min
- 12:39 into the second periodKevin Dineen · slashing2 min
- 2:25 into the third periodTim Bothwell · holding2 min
- 13:38 into the third periodDana Murzyn · hooking2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 12Dean EvasonC | 2 | 2 | 4 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 28Paul LawlessL | 3 | 0 | 3 | +2 | 9 | – |
| 7Stew GavinR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +4 | 1 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 8Risto SiltanenD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 11Kevin DineenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 14Greg MaloneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Bob CrawfordR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 27Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 32Torrie RobertsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 4Dana MurzynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 24Tim BothwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | W | 29 | 4 | .862 |
| 31Steve WeeksG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 7 | – |
| 7John TuckerR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 14Mikael AnderssonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 26Pat HughesR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 4Steve DykstraL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 12Sean MckennaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Don LeverC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Hannu VirtaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 33Jim HoffordD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Tom BarrassoG | L | 30 | 5 | .833 |
| 35Daren PuppaG | 0 | 0 | – |