Los Angeles Kings vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Sunday, January 5, 1986 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Los Angeles Kings beat the Buffalo Sabres 3–2 on Sunday, January 5, 1986 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Kings 24–23.
Goals came from Lindy Ruff, Craig Redmond, Dean Kennedy, Phil Sykes and Mike Foligno.
Bob Janecyk made 22 saves on 24 shots for the win; Jacques Cloutier stopped 20 of 23.
Scoring
1st period
Lindy Ruff (15)John Tucker (15), Phil Housley (18)0–118:41 BUF
2nd period
Craig Redmond (6)Dave Taylor (20), Marcel Dionne (22)1–104:20 LAK · 
Dean Kennedy (1)Marcel Dionne (23), Grant Ledyard (15)2–106:27 LAK
Phil Sykes (9)Dave Taylor (21), Brian Engblom (10)3–109:17 LAK
Mike Foligno (19)John Tucker (16), Mike Ramsey (11)3–219:48 BUF
Team stats
LAKBUF
2324
0%0%
1/30/5
2622
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 7:08 into the first period
Morris Lukowich · hooking2 min - 10:21 into the first period
Ric Seiling · high sticking2 min - 13:23 into the first periodDave Andreychuk · roughing2 min
- 13:23 into the first periodBrian Engblom · roughing2 min
- 13:57 into the first periodJay Wells · hooking2 min
- 19:32 into the first periodBernie Nicholls · high sticking2 min
- 3:28 into the second periodGaetano Orlando · hooking2 min
- 5:57 into the second periodMike Foligno · slashing2 min
- 5:57 into the second periodLindy Ruff · misconduct10 min
- 5:57 into the second periodBryan Erickson · slashing2 min
- 5:57 into the second periodJohn Paul Kelly · misconduct10 min
- 7:16 into the second periodSteve Dykstra · high sticking2 min
- 13:35 into the second periodJay Wells · holding2 min
- 18:57 into the second periodDave Andreychuk · roughing2 min
- 18:57 into the second periodMark Hardy · roughing2 min
- 13:17 into the third periodMarcel Dionne · holding2 min
Season series
Los Angeles Kings
| 16Marcel DionneC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Dave TaylorR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Phil SykesL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 2Craig RedmondD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 4Grant LedyardD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 5Brian EngblomD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 6Dean KennedyD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 9Bernie NichollsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 10Morris LukowichL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Len HachbornC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Bryan EricksonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17John Paul KellyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Anders HakanssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Doug SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Joe PatersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Jay WellsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Mark HardyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Allan TuerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Bob JanecykG | W | 24 | 2 | .917 |
| 31Roland MelansonG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 7John TuckerR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Steve DykstraL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Sean MckennaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 14Mikael AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 20Don LeverC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Gaetano OrlandoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 26Pat HughesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Richie DunnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jacques CloutierG | L | 23 | 3 | .870 |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | 0 | 0 | – |