Buffalo Sabres vs Hartford Whalers
Regular season · Wednesday, December 17, 1986 · Hartford Civic Center
Game summary
The Hartford Whalers beat the Buffalo Sabres 4–3 on Wednesday, December 17, 1986 at Hartford Civic Center. The Whalers outshot the Sabres 29–19.
Tom Kurvers scored twice and Dave Semenko scored twice. John Tucker, Dean Evason and Mike McEwen also scored.
Steve Weeks made 16 saves on 19 shots for the win; Jacques Cloutier stopped 25 of 29.
Scoring
2nd period
Tom Kurvers (1)Paul Cyr (9), Christian Ruuttu (13)1–001:49 BUF
John Tucker (7)Dave Andreychuk (16), Steve Dykstra (1)2–005:23 BUF
Dean Evason (6)Paul Lawless (7), Mike McEwen (2)2–110:25 HFD
Dave Semenko (1)Dean Evason (14), Kevin Dineen (12)2–214:52 HFD
3rd period
- Dave Semenko (2)Kevin Dineen (13), Ron Francis (23)2–307:45 HFD
Mike McEwen (3)Unassisted2–411:19 HFD- Tom Kurvers (2)Uwe Krupp (4)3–416:51 BUF
Team stats
BUFHFD
1929
0%0%
0/30/3
3626
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:37 into the first period
Steve Dykstra · high sticking2 min - 3:37 into the first period
Kevin Dineen · high sticking2 min - 5:56 into the first periodDean Evason · hooking2 min
- 6:52 into the first periodDave Andreychuk · slashing2 min
- 6:52 into the first periodDave Tippett · holding2 min
- 10:46 into the first periodJoe Reekie · hooking2 min
- 2:43 into the second periodSteve Dykstra · high sticking2 min
- 5:35 into the second periodPaul Macdermid · high sticking2 min
- 6:06 into the second periodDave Andreychuk · slashing2 min
- 6:06 into the second periodDave Tippett · slashing2 min
- 7:04 into the second periodDoug Smith · roughing2 min
- 7:04 into the second periodUlf Samuelsson · slashing2 min
- 8:24 into the second periodSteve Dykstra · hooking2 min
- 16:25 into the second periodPaul Macdermid · charging2 min
- 18:36 into the second periodChristian Ruuttu · fighting5 min
- 18:36 into the second periodSteve Dykstra · game misconduct10 min
- 18:36 into the second periodScot Kleinendorst · fighting5 min
- 15:12 into the third periodMike Ramsey · high sticking2 min
- 15:12 into the third periodMike Ramsey · fighting5 min
- 15:12 into the third periodPaul Macdermid · high sticking2 min
- 15:12 into the third periodPaul Macdermid · fighting5 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 28Tom KurversD | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 7John TuckerR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 21Christian RuuttuC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 42Steve DykstraL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 40Uwe KruppD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 9Scott ArnielL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 1 | – |
| 15Doug SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 16Paul BrydgesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Gaetano OrlandoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 1 | – |
| 27Wilf PaiementR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 29Jeff ParkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 32Normand LacombeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 31Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jacques CloutierG | L | 29 | 4 | .862 |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | 0 | 0 | – |
Hartford Whalers
| 11Kevin DineenR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 72Dave SemenkoL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 25Mike McEwenD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 28Paul LawlessL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 7Stew GavinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Scot KleinendorstC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 20John AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Dave BarrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Dana MurzynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Steve WeeksG | W | 19 | 3 | .842 |