Toronto Maple Leafs vs Minnesota North Stars
Regular season · Wednesday, March 5, 1986 · Met Center
Game summary
The Minnesota North Stars beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5–3 on Wednesday, March 5, 1986 at Met Center. The North Stars outshot the Maple Leafs 45–35.
Goals came from Walt Poddubny, Tom McCarthy, Dino Ciccarelli, Brian Lawton, Scott Bjugstad, Russ Courtnall, Brad Maxwell and Brian Bellows.
Don Beaupre made 32 saves on 35 shots for the win; Ken Wregget stopped 40 of 45.
Scoring
1st period
Walt Poddubny (10)Miroslav Frycer (35)1–005:36 TOR
Tom McCarthy (12)Kent Nilsson (34), Brian Bellows (39)1–107:41 MNS ·
2nd period
Dino Ciccarelli (32)Kent Nilsson (35), Scott Bjugstad (25)1–200:22 MNS · 
Brian Lawton (17)Dennis Maruk (29), Brian Bellows (40)1–303:36 MNS
Scott Bjugstad (34)Dino Ciccarelli (39), Keith Acton (28)1–417:07 MNS
3rd period
Russ Courtnall (19)Miroslav Frycer (36), Brad Maxwell (14)2–406:07 TOR · 
Brad Maxwell (5)Miroslav Frycer (37), Peter Ihnacak (19)3–410:05 TOR
Brian Bellows (29)Neal Broten (62), Kent Nilsson (36)3–516:37 MNS ·
Team stats
TORMNS
3545
0%0%
1/63/8
2925
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:55 into the first period
Willi Plett · fighting5 min - 5:55 into the first period
Bob Mcgill · slashing2 min - 5:55 into the first periodBob Mcgill · fighting5 min
- 7:56 into the first periodTony McKegney · high sticking2 min
- 11:48 into the first periodCurt Giles · holding2 min
- 14:31 into the first periodGordie Roberts · tripping2 min
- 15:21 into the first periodTom Fergus · hooking2 min
- 18:38 into the first periodPeter Ihnacak · hooking2 min
- 5:35 into the second periodCurt Giles · tripping2 min
- 9:16 into the second periodGary Nylund · interference2 min
- 12:04 into the second periodChris Kotsopoulos · slashing2 min
- 12:09 into the second periodWilli Plett · roughing2 min
- 14:51 into the second periodMiroslav Ihnacak · holding2 min
- 18:03 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 0:23 into the third periodScott Bjugstad · high sticking2 min
- 0:23 into the third periodDino Ciccarelli · roughing2 min
- 0:23 into the third periodWendel Clark · roughing2 min
- 0:23 into the third periodRuss Courtnall · slashing2 min
- 5:08 into the third periodCurt Giles · holding2 min
- 7:04 into the third periodBrad Maxwell · cross checking2 min
- 15:40 into the third periodWalt Poddubny · hooking2 min
- 17:38 into the third periodKeith Acton · roughing2 min
- 17:38 into the third periodWendel Clark · roughing double minor4 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 14Miroslav FrycerC | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 4Brad MaxwellD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 8Walt PoddubnyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 9Russ CourtnallR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 18Peter IhnacakC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Greg TerrionC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Marian StastnyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Wendel ClarkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Tom FergusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Rick VaiveR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 24Dan DaoustC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Miroslav IhnacakL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 32Steve ThomasR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Gary NylundD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15Bob McgillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 25Bill RootD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Chris KotsopoulosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 33Al IafrateD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Don EdwardsG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Ken WreggetG | L | 45 | 5 | .889 |
Minnesota North Stars
| 15Kent NilssonC | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Brian BellowsL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 7 | – |
| 14Scott BjugstadL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Dino CiccarelliR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 7Neal BrotenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 8Brian LawtonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 9Dennis MarukC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 11Tom McCarthyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 7 | – |
| 12Keith ActonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Dirk GrahamR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Willi PlettR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 25Tony McKegneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Curt GilesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Bob RouseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 4Craig HartsburgD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 10Gordie RobertsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 17Ed HospodarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Dave LangevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Kari TakkoG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Don BeaupreG | W | 35 | 3 | .914 |