New Jersey Devils vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Wednesday, January 15, 1986 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The New Jersey Devils beat the Detroit Red Wings 4–3 in overtime on Wednesday, January 15, 1986 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Devils 33–20.
Goals came from Petr Klima, Claude Loiselle, Paul Gagne, Greg Adams, Mark Johnson, John Ogrodnick and Tim Higgins.
Alain Chevrier made 30 saves on 33 shots for the win; Eddie Mio stopped 16 of 20.
Scoring
1st period
Petr Klima (17)Reed Larson (22), Steve Yzerman (24)0–118:35 DET ·
2nd period
Claude Loiselle (2)Greg Smith (14), Glenn Merkosky (1)0–208:02 DET
Paul Gagne (11)Greg Adams (19), Randy Velischek (2)1–208:55 NJD
Greg Adams (18)Rich Preston (12), Mel Bridgman (20)2–210:07 NJD · 
Mark Johnson (8)Rich Preston (13), Mel Bridgman (21)3–217:59 NJD · 
John Ogrodnick (24)Kelly Kisio (27), Reed Larson (23)3–319:07 DET ·
Overtime
Tim Higgins (6)Greg Adams (20), Paul Gagne (9)4–301:23 NJD
Team stats
NJDDET
2033
0%0%
2/52/7
2117
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:04 into the first period
Rich Preston · hooking2 min - 5:56 into the first period
Randy Ladouceur · interference2 min - 9:01 into the first periodJoe Cirella · tripping2 min
- 18:23 into the first periodPhil Russell · hooking2 min
- 9:11 into the second periodJohn Ogrodnick · hooking2 min
- 11:09 into the second periodDave Lewis · cross checking2 min
- 13:51 into the second periodCraig Wolanin · high sticking2 min
- 15:45 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 17:06 into the second periodRandy Ladouceur · hooking2 min
- 18:52 into the second periodDave Lewis · holding2 min
- 0:55 into the third periodRich Preston · slashing2 min
- 9:42 into the third periodWarren Young · roughing2 min
- 9:42 into the third periodWarren Young · tripping2 min
- 9:42 into the third periodAllan Stewart · roughing2 min
- 10:58 into the third periodClaude Loiselle · fighting5 min
- 10:58 into the third periodJoe Cirella · fighting5 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 24Greg AdamsL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 17Paul GagneL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 18Mel BridgmanC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Rich PrestonR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Mark JohnsonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 20Tim HigginsR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 27Randy VelischekD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 10Aaron BrotenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Allan StewartL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 15John MacLeanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Pat VerbeekR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 22Doug SullimanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Jan LudvigR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 2Joe CirellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 5Phil RussellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Craig WolaninD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Dave LewisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Alain ChevrierG | W | 33 | 3 | .909 |
| 31Craig BillingtonG | 0 | 0 | – |
Detroit Red Wings
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Kelly KisioC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 19Steve YzermanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 7 | – |
| 21Claude LoiselleC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 22Glenn MerkoskyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 85Petr KlimaR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 5Greg SmithD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Ron DuguayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 11Shawn BurrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15Christopher CichockiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Danny GareR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 23Basil McraeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 35Warren YoungC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Barry MelroseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Jim LeavinsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Steve RichmondD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 29Randy LadouceurD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Mark LaforestG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 41Eddie MioG | L | 20 | 4 | .800 |