Quebec Nordiques vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Wednesday, December 18, 1985 · Montreal Forum
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Quebec Nordiques 3–2 on Wednesday, December 18, 1985 at Montreal Forum. The Canadiens outshot the Nordiques 42–25.
Goals came from Jean-Francois Sauve, Guy Carbonneau, Bobby Smith, Mats Naslund and Michel Goulet.
Patrick Roy made 23 saves on 25 shots for the win; Clint Malarchuk stopped 39 of 42.
Scoring
1st period
Jean-Francois Sauve (5)John Anderson (13), Michel Goulet (14)1–002:16 QUE · 
Guy Carbonneau (11)Chris Chelios (19)1–110:48 MTL
2nd period
Bobby Smith (10)Mats Naslund (29), Mario Tremblay (4)1–218:48 MTL
3rd period
Mats Naslund (24)Larry Robinson (27), Chris Chelios (20)1–311:37 MTL · 
Michel Goulet (23)John Anderson (14), Jean-Francois Sauve (20)2–312:29 QUE ·
Team stats
QUEMTL
2542
0%0%
2/61/6
2020
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00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:34 into the first period
Mario Tremblay · slashing2 min - 4:51 into the first period
Mark Kumpel · holding2 min - 12:20 into the first periodLarry Robinson · roughing2 min
- 12:20 into the first periodDale Hunter · roughing2 min
- 13:01 into the first periodRandy Moller · holding2 min
- 13:58 into the first periodChris Chelios · hooking2 min
- 18:45 into the first periodMichel Goulet · hooking2 min
- 3:23 into the second periodMats Naslund · high sticking2 min
- 5:49 into the second periodMike Lalor · slashing2 min
- 6:38 into the second periodRobert Picard · holding2 min
- 9:06 into the second periodStephane Richer · roughing2 min
- 9:06 into the second periodDale Hunter · roughing2 min
- 15:39 into the second periodChris Chelios · roughing2 min
- 15:39 into the second periodDale Hunter · roughing2 min
- 16:12 into the second periodPetr Svoboda · high sticking2 min
- 16:41 into the second periodMichel Goulet · hooking2 min
- 9:21 into the third periodMike Mcphee · roughing2 min
- 9:21 into the third periodDale Hunter · roughing2 min
- 10:26 into the third periodMichel Goulet · hooking2 min
- 12:05 into the third periodBob Gainey · roughing2 min
Season series
Quebec Nordiques
| 14John AndersonR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15Jean-Francois SauveC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Michel GouletL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 9Brent AshtonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Mike EaglesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Mark KumpelR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Alain CoteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Anton StastnyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Paul GillisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Peter StastnyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 27Wilf PaiementR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 4David ShawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 6Gilbert DelormeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 7Pat PriceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 21Randy MollerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 24Robert PicardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 34Gord DonnellyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Clint MalarchukG | L | 42 | 3 | .929 |
| 33Mario GosselinG | 0 | 0 | – |
Montréal Canadiens
| 26Mats NaslundL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 24Chris CheliosD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 14Mario TremblayR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 11Ryan WalterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Kjell DahlinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 27Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 35Mike McpheeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 39Brian SkrudlandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Tom KurversD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 25Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 38Mike LalorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Doug SoetaertG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 25 | 2 | .920 |