Hartford Whalers vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Thursday, December 18, 1986 · Boston Garden
Game summary
The Hartford Whalers beat the Boston Bruins 6–5 on Thursday, December 18, 1986 at Boston Garden. The Bruins outshot the Whalers 33–28.
Keith Crowder scored twice and Charlie Simmer scored a hat trick. Doug Jarvis, Paul Lawless, Ron Francis, Stew Gavin, Mike McEwen and Kevin Dineen also scored.
Steve Weeks made 28 saves on 33 shots for the win; Doug Keans stopped 22 of 28.
Scoring
1st period
Doug Jarvis (4)Dave Tippett (8), Paul Macdermid (4)1–004:09 HFD
Paul Lawless (10)Stew Gavin (9)2–006:09 HFD · 
Keith Crowder (9)Reed Larson (13), Charlie Simmer (26)2–111:27 BOS
Ron Francis (9)Dave Semenko (1), Ulf Samuelsson (12)3–119:49 HFD
2nd period
Stew Gavin (9)Dean Evason (15), Paul Lawless (8)4–102:45 HFD
Charlie Simmer (8)Ray Bourque (21), Keith Crowder (15)4–203:51 BOS
Mike McEwen (4)Unassisted5–213:13 HFD · - Charlie Simmer (9)Reed Larson (14), Ray Bourque (22)5–319:07 BOS
3rd period
Kevin Dineen (13)Dave Semenko (2), Ray Ferraro (11)6–303:28 HFD · - Charlie Simmer (10)Ray Bourque (23), Rick Middleton (8)6–405:09 BOS ·
- Keith Crowder (10)Ken Linseman (18), Charlie Simmer (27)6–515:34 BOS ·
Team stats
HFDBOS
2833
0%0%
3/72/8
3533
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:41 into the first period
Reed Larson · hooking2 min - 4:43 into the first periodKen Linseman · tripping2 min
- 6:30 into the first period
Paul Macdermid · elbowing2 min - 11:53 into the first periodKeith Crowder · roughing2 min
- 11:53 into the first periodPaul Macdermid · roughing2 min
- 14:02 into the first periodJay Miller · fighting5 min
- 14:02 into the first periodScot Kleinendorst · instigator2 min
- 14:02 into the first periodScot Kleinendorst · fighting5 min
- 17:19 into the first periodDave Semenko · holding2 min
- 0:08 into the second periodDave Babych · hooking2 min
- 6:05 into the second periodGreg Johnston · elbowing2 min
- 8:46 into the second periodJoel Quenneville · interference2 min
- 9:27 into the second periodUlf Samuelsson · high sticking2 min
- 12:18 into the second periodMike Milbury · high sticking2 min
- 15:26 into the second periodSteve Kasper · roughing2 min
- 15:26 into the second periodKevin Dineen · roughing2 min
- 2:35 into the third periodPaul Boutilier · hooking2 min
- 4:40 into the third periodJay Miller · fighting5 min
- 4:40 into the third periodDana Murzyn · fighting5 min
- 4:50 into the third periodKeith Crowder · fighting5 min
- 4:50 into the third periodPaul Macdermid · instigator2 min
- 4:50 into the third periodPaul Macdermid · fighting5 min
- 11:00 into the third periodTom McCarthy · high sticking2 min
- 12:39 into the third periodDoug Keans · delaying game2 min
- 14:41 into the third periodUlf Samuelsson · holding2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 7Stew GavinR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 28Paul LawlessL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 72Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Kevin DineenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Doug JarvisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 25Mike McEwenD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 18Scot KleinendorstC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Shane ChurlaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Dave BarrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Dana MurzynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Steve WeeksG | W | 33 | 5 | .849 |
Boston Bruins
| 23Charlie SimmerL | 3 | 2 | 5 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 18Keith CrowderR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 7Ray BourqueD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 13Ken LinsemanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 16Rick MiddletonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 8Cam NeelyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 10Thomas GradinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Steve KasperC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 14Geoff CourtnallL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Nevin MarkwartL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 19Tom McCarthyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 29Jay MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 39Greg JohnstonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 26Mike MilburyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 27Mats ThelinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 34Paul BoutilierD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 41Allen PedersenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Bill RanfordG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Doug KeansG | L | 28 | 6 | .786 |