Montréal Canadiens vs Boston Bruins
Playoffs · Saturday, April 12, 1986 · Boston Garden
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 4–3 on Saturday, April 12, 1986 at Boston Garden. The Bruins outshot the Canadiens 31–20.
Bob Gainey scored twice. Steve Kasper, Claude Lemieux, Mats Naslund, Reed Larson and Keith Crowder also scored.
Patrick Roy made 28 saves on 31 shots for the win; Bill Ranford stopped 16 of 20.
Scoring
1st period
Steve Kasper (1)Unassisted0–117:56 BOS ·
2nd period
Claude Lemieux (3)Stephane Richer (1), Brian Skrudland (2)1–102:13 MTL
Mats Naslund (1)Bobby Smith (2)2–110:09 MTL
Reed Larson (1)Randy Burridge (3)2–215:02 BOS · 
Keith Crowder (2)Dwight Foster (2), Randy Burridge (4)2–315:16 BOS
3rd period
Bob Gainey (1)Guy Carbonneau (1)3–300:50 MTL- Bob Gainey (2)Unassisted4–308:58 MTL ·
Team stats
MTLBOS
2031
0%0%
0/61/6
2626
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:26 into the first period
Kraig Nienhuis · high sticking2 min - 2:26 into the first periodKraig Nienhuis · misconduct10 min
- 2:26 into the first period
Brian Skrudland · misconduct10 min - 2:28 into the first periodJohn Blum · slashing2 min
- 4:50 into the first periodBrian Curran · roughing2 min
- 6:22 into the first periodPetr Svoboda · high sticking2 min
- 7:50 into the first periodRick Green · cross checking2 min
- 10:45 into the first periodSteve Kasper · roughing2 min
- 10:45 into the first periodBobby Smith · slashing2 min
- 12:45 into the first periodDwight Foster · high sticking2 min
- 12:45 into the first periodMike Lalor · high sticking2 min
- 14:58 into the first periodRick Green · high sticking2 min
- 16:04 into the first periodKeith Crowder · holding2 min
- 18:18 into the first periodBrian Skrudland · hooking2 min
- 13:18 into the second periodStephane Richer · tripping2 min
- 17:35 into the second periodReed Larson · holding2 min
- 6:02 into the third periodGeoff Courtnall · roughing2 min
- 8:08 into the third periodRick Green · hooking2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 23Bob GaineyL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 26Mats NaslundL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 32Claude LemieuxR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 39Brian SkrudlandC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Kjell DahlinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 31John KordicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 35Mike McpheeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 17Craig LudwigD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Chris CheliosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 25Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 38Mike LalorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Doug SoetaertG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 31 | 3 | .903 |
Boston Bruins
| 12Randy BurridgeL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 11Steve KasperC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 18Keith CrowderR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 20Dwight FosterR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 10Barry PedersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 13Ken LinsemanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 23Charlie SimmerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 29Jay MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 32Geoff CourtnallL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 37Dave PasinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 38Kraig NienhuisL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 6Gord KluzakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 7Ray BourqueD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 21Frank SimonettiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Michael ThelvenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 33John BlumD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 34Brian CurranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pat RigginG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Bill RanfordG | L | 20 | 4 | .800 |