Los Angeles Kings vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Wednesday, October 22, 1986 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Los Angeles Kings 5–4 in overtime on Wednesday, October 22, 1986 at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers outshot the Kings 29–28.
Luc Robitaille scored twice and Mark Osborne scored twice. Bernie Nicholls, Bob Brooke, Tomas Sandstrom, Jay Wells and Kjell Samuelsson also scored.
John Vanbiesbrouck made 24 saves on 28 shots for the win; Darren Eliot stopped 24 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Bernie Nicholls (3)Jim Fox (4)1–008:18 LAK
Luc Robitaille (4)Bryan Erickson (4), Marcel Dionne (8)2–009:50 LAK · 
Mark Osborne (4)Tomas Sandstrom (6), Walt Poddubny (7)2–110:07 NYR- Luc Robitaille (5)Marcel Dionne (9), Bernie Nicholls (3)3–113:11 LAK ·
Bob Brooke (1)Walt Poddubny (8), Tomas Sandstrom (7)3–219:22 NYR
2nd period
Tomas Sandstrom (3)Walt Poddubny (9), Mark Osborne (3)3–304:54 NYR
Jay Wells (2)Morris Lukowich (2), Craig Redmond (3)4–307:36 LAK ·
3rd period
Kjell Samuelsson (1)Jan Erixon (1), Don Maloney (2)4–413:50 NYR
Overtime
- Mark Osborne (5)Tomas Sandstrom (8), Walt Poddubny (10)4–504:34 NYR ·
Team stats
LAKNYR
2829
0%0%
3/51/4
1719
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:22 into the first period
Willie Huber · high sticking2 min - 11:33 into the first periodKjell Samuelsson · holding2 min
- 17:16 into the first period
Larry Playfair · tripping2 min - 5:28 into the second periodMark Hardy · holding2 min
- 5:28 into the second periodMark Hardy · fighting5 min
- 5:28 into the second periodMark Osborne · elbowing2 min
- 5:28 into the second periodMark Osborne · fighting5 min
- 6:28 into the second periodPierre Larouche · holding2 min
- 14:18 into the second periodLarry Playfair · holding2 min
- 18:59 into the second periodTom Laidlaw · hooking2 min
- 0:56 into the third periodBryan Erickson · hooking2 min
- 13:48 into the third periodDave Williams · roughing2 min
- 13:48 into the third periodTomas Sandstrom · high sticking2 min
- 14:45 into the third periodJim Leavins · hooking2 min
- 4:13 into overtimeMark Hardy · holding2 min
Season series
Los Angeles Kings
| 9Bernie NichollsC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 16Marcel DionneC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 20Luc RobitailleL | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 12Morris LukowichL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Bryan EricksonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 19Jim FoxR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Craig RedmondD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 24Jay WellsD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 8Paul GuayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Sean MckennaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Bob BourneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Jimmy CarsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 18Dave TaylorR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Dave WilliamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 5Mark HardyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 6Dean KennedyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 28Steve DuchesneD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Roland MelansonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Darren EliotG | L | 29 | 5 | .828 |
New York Rangers
| 8Walt PoddubnyL | 0 | 4 | 4 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 28Tomas SandstromR | 1 | 3 | 4 | +2 | 7 | – |
| 19Mark OsborneL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 12Don MaloneyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 13Bob BrookeR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 20Jan ErixonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 26Kjell SamuelssonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 9Dave GagnerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Pierre LaroucheC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 35Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 40Kelly MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Tom LaidlawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 24Jim LeavinsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 27Willie HuberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Don JacksonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 30Larry MelnykD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Doug SoetaertG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 34John VanbiesbrouckG | W | 28 | 4 | .857 |