Montréal Canadiens vs Quebec Nordiques
Regular season · Thursday, December 19, 1985 · Le Colisée
Game summary
The Quebec Nordiques beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–4 in overtime on Thursday, December 19, 1985 at Le Colisée. The Canadiens outshot the Nordiques 32–25.
Larry Robinson scored a hat trick. Chris Nilan, Anton Stastny, Jean-Francois Sauve, Alain Cote, Michel Goulet and Paul Gillis also scored.
Mario Gosselin made 28 saves on 32 shots for the win; Steve Penney stopped 20 of 25.
Scoring
1st period
Chris Nilan (4)Bob Gainey (11)1–000:13 MTL
Larry Robinson (6)Mats Naslund (30), Bobby Smith (25)2–004:26 MTL · - Larry Robinson (7)Mats Naslund (31), Chris Nilan (5)3–015:21 MTL ·
2nd period
Anton Stastny (8)Robert Picard (10), Peter Stastny (25)3–109:16 QUE · 
Jean-Francois Sauve (6)Peter Stastny (26), Anton Stastny (15)3–210:12 QUE · 
Alain Cote (4)Mike Eagles (5), Paul Gillis (12)3–317:44 QUE
3rd period
- Larry Robinson (8)Bobby Smith (26), Mats Naslund (32)4–300:54 MTL ·
Michel Goulet (24)Jean-Francois Sauve (21), Anton Stastny (16)4–411:18 QUE ·
Overtime
Paul Gillis (8)Robert Picard (11), Randy Moller (7)4–504:57 QUE
Team stats
MTLQUE
3225
0%0%
3/73/7
1818
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:19 into the first period
Pat Price · hooking2 min - 3:15 into the first periodRobert Picard · slashing2 min
- 7:44 into the first period
Bobby Smith · roughing2 min - 7:44 into the first periodDale Hunter · high sticking2 min
- 7:44 into the first periodDale Hunter · roughing2 min
- 11:49 into the first periodBrian Skrudland · elbowing2 min
- 13:55 into the first periodPat Price · tripping2 min
- 14:49 into the first periodMike Eagles · cross checking2 min
- 16:42 into the first periodPetr Svoboda · roughing2 min
- 16:42 into the first periodPaul Gillis · roughing2 min
- 17:42 into the first periodRick Green · holding2 min
- 5:05 into the second periodJohn Kordic · high sticking2 min
- 8:10 into the second periodPetr Svoboda · high sticking2 min
- 9:47 into the second periodTom Kurvers · hooking2 min
- 11:04 into the second periodDale Hunter · delaying game2 min
- 14:03 into the second periodBob Gainey · hooking2 min
- 18:58 into the second periodWilf Paiement · high sticking2 min
- 9:52 into the third periodLucien DeBlois · interference2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 26Mats NaslundL | 0 | 3 | 3 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 3 | 0 | 3 | −1 | 8 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 14Mario TremblayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 20Kjell DahlinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 27Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 31John KordicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 35Mike McpheeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 39Brian SkrudlandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Tom KurversD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Chris CheliosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 38Mike LalorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Doug SoetaertG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Steve PenneyG | L | 25 | 5 | .800 |
Quebec Nordiques
| 20Anton StastnyL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 15Jean-Francois SauveC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Paul GillisC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 26Peter StastnyC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 24Robert PicardD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 11Mike EaglesL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 16Michel GouletL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 19Alain CoteL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 21Randy MollerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 9Brent AshtonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Jimmy MannR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Wayne BabychR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Wilf PaiementR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 6Gilbert DelormeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Pat PriceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Claude JulienD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 34Gord DonnellyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Clint MalarchukG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Mario GosselinG | W | 32 | 4 | .875 |