Hartford Whalers vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, March 7, 1986 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Hartford Whalers beat the Buffalo Sabres 6–2 on Friday, March 7, 1986 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Whalers 26–20.
Goals came from Dean Evason, Doug Jarvis, Doug Smith, Dave Babych, Paul Macdermid, Gilbert Perreault, Sylvain Turgeon and Kevin Dineen.
Mike Liut made 24 saves on 26 shots for the win; Tom Barrasso stopped 14 of 20.
Scoring
1st period
Dean Evason (15)Dana Murzyn (21)1–009:51 HFD
Doug Jarvis (8)Dave Tippett (16)2–016:55 HFD
2nd period
Doug Smith (15)Bob Halkidis (9)2–103:59 BUF
Dave Babych (12)Kevin Dineen (25), Ray Ferraro (36)3–107:11 HFD · 
Paul Macdermid (9)Doug Jarvis (15), Dave Babych (47)4–111:47 HFD
Gilbert Perreault (17)Richie Dunn (5), Mike Foligno (31)4–218:46 BUF ·
3rd period
Sylvain Turgeon (40)Dave Babych (48), Stew Gavin (24)5–208:26 HFD
Kevin Dineen (21)Ray Ferraro (37), Paul Lawless (18)6–210:57 HFD
Team stats
HFDBUF
2026
0%0%
1/21/5
6546
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:46 into the first period
Doug Jarvis · holding2 min - 11:29 into the first periodJoel Quenneville · tripping2 min
- 13:41 into the first periodTim Bothwell · holding2 min
- 17:53 into the first period
Mike Ramsey · tripping2 min - 6:32 into the second periodBob Halkidis · tripping2 min
- 8:00 into the second periodMike Foligno · fighting5 min
- 8:00 into the second periodDana Murzyn · fighting5 min
- 14:47 into the second periodMike Ramsey · fighting5 min
- 14:47 into the second periodPaul Macdermid · fighting5 min
- 16:33 into the second periodPaul Cyr · fighting5 min
- 16:33 into the second periodPaul Cyr · game misconduct10 min
- 16:33 into the second periodBob Halkidis · roughing2 min
- 16:33 into the second periodDoug Smith · fighting5 min
- 16:33 into the second periodDoug Smith · game misconduct10 min
- 16:33 into the second periodDean Evason · fighting5 min
- 16:33 into the second periodDean Evason · game misconduct10 min
- 16:33 into the second periodDana Murzyn · fighting5 min
- 16:33 into the second periodUlf Samuelsson · fighting5 min
- 16:33 into the second periodUlf Samuelsson · game misconduct10 min
- 16:33 into the second periodTorrie Robertson · roughing double minor4 min
- 16:33 into the second periodTorrie Robertson · leaving players penalty bench10 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 44Dave BabychD | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 11Kevin DineenR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Doug JarvisC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 7Stew GavinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 28Paul LawlessL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Dana MurzynD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 14Bill GardnerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 17Wayne BabychR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 32Torrie RobertsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 8Risto SiltanenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 24Tim BothwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | W | 26 | 2 | .923 |
| 31Steve WeeksG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Doug SmithC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 19Bob HalkidisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Richie DunnD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Steve DykstraL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 7John TuckerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 12Jody GageR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 23Gaetano OrlandoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 5 | – |
| 34Adam CreightonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Brian EngblomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jacques CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | L | 20 | 6 | .700 |