Philadelphia Flyers vs New Jersey Devils
Regular season · Tuesday, December 17, 1985 · Brendan Byrne Arena
Game summary
The New Jersey Devils beat the Philadelphia Flyers 7–4 on Tuesday, December 17, 1985 at Brendan Byrne Arena. The Flyers outshot the Devils 34–29.
Greg Adams scored twice. Aaron Broten, Mel Bridgman, Paul Gagne, Tim Kerr, John MacLean, Joe Cirella, Pelle Eklund, Ilkka Sinisalo and Brian Propp also scored.
Alain Chevrier made 30 saves on 34 shots for the win; Bob Froese stopped 16 of 20.
Scoring
1st period
Aaron Broten (10)Uli Hiemer (7), Kirk Muller (14)0–101:35 NJD
Greg Adams (10)Paul Gagne (4)0–206:31 NJD
Mel Bridgman (9)Peter McNab (10), Rich Preston (9)0–310:14 NJD- Greg Adams (11)Paul Gagne (5), Dave Pichette (10)0–410:53 NJD ·
Paul Gagne (4)Mark Johnson (14), Aaron Broten (14)0–519:28 NJD
2nd period
Tim Kerr (29)Peter Zezel (16)1–504:58 PHI · 
John MacLean (8)Kirk Muller (15), Aaron Broten (15)1–605:21 NJD
Joe Cirella (3)Pat Verbeek (12), Dave Lewis (6)1–710:00 NJD · 
Pelle Eklund (7)Thomas Eriksson (3), Brian Propp (24)2–717:42 PHI ·
3rd period
Ilkka Sinisalo (16)Peter Zezel (17), Doug Crossman (21)3–714:22 PHI
Brian Propp (22)Murray Craven (19)4–717:27 PHI
Team stats
PHINJD
3429
0%0%
2/42/4
1717
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:26 into the first period
Dave Poulin · interference2 min - 10:26 into the first periodRick Tocchet · charging2 min
- 11:02 into the first period
Aaron Broten · interference2 min - 11:02 into the first periodUli Hiemer · fighting5 min
- 11:02 into the first periodRick Tocchet · fighting5 min
- 13:20 into the first periodPerry Anderson · high sticking2 min
- 13:20 into the first periodPerry Anderson · roughing2 min
- 13:20 into the first periodDave Brown · high sticking2 min
- 13:20 into the first periodDave Brown · roughing2 min
- 3:11 into the second periodTim Higgins · holding2 min
- 8:28 into the second periodDave Richter · hooking2 min
- 16:58 into the second periodDave Pichette · hooking2 min
- 3:21 into the third periodCraig Wolanin · tripping2 min
- 7:05 into the third periodBrad Marsh · slashing2 min
Season series
Philadelphia Flyers
| 25Peter ZezelC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 26Brian ProppL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 9Pelle EklundC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 12Tim KerrR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 23Ilkka SinisaloR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 32Murray CravenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 3Doug CrossmanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 27Thomas ErikssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Ron SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 15Rich SutterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Dave PoulinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 21Dave BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 22Rick TocchetR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 24Derrick SmithL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 2Mark HoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 5Dave RichterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 8Brad MarshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Darren JensenG | 9 | 3 | .667 | |
| 35Bob FroeseG | L | 20 | 4 | .800 |
New Jersey Devils
| 10Aaron BrotenC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 17Paul GagneL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 9Kirk MullerL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Greg AdamsL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 7Peter McNabC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 12Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 15John MacLeanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 16Pat VerbeekR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 18Mel BridgmanC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 19Rich PrestonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 2Joe CirellaD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 8Dave PichetteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 25Dave LewisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 28Uli HiemerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 11Perry AndersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Tim HigginsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Bob LorimerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 6Craig WolaninD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glenn ReschG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Alain ChevrierG | W | 34 | 4 | .882 |