New Jersey Devils vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Saturday, December 20, 1986 · Montreal Forum
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the New Jersey Devils 5–2 on Saturday, December 20, 1986 at Montreal Forum. The Devils outshot the Canadiens 29–22.
Goals came from Chris Chelios, Larry Robinson, Mats Naslund, Claude Loiselle, Ryan Walter, Kirk Muller and Guy Carbonneau.
Brian Hayward made 27 saves on 29 shots for the win; Kirk McLean stopped 17 of 21.
Scoring
1st period
Chris Chelios (5)Mats Naslund (20), David Maley (6)0–102:26 MTL
Larry Robinson (5)Bobby Smith (20), Mats Naslund (21)0–209:31 MTL ·
2nd period
Mats Naslund (11)Shayne Corson (5), Claude Lemieux (11)0–302:39 MTL
3rd period
Claude Loiselle (9)Aaron Broten (28), John MacLean (9)1–306:15 NJD
Ryan Walter (5)Claude Lemieux (12), Craig Ludwig (4)1–411:08 MTL
Kirk Muller (14)Unassisted2–413:49 NJD
Guy Carbonneau (11)Bob Gainey (5), Petr Svoboda (10)2–519:12 MTL ·
Team stats
NJDMTL
2922
0%0%
0/21/2
44
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 8:03 into the first period
Anders Carlsson · hooking2 min - 14:26 into the first periodKen Daneyko · high sticking2 min
- 10:46 into the second period
Shayne Corson · roughing2 min - 16:56 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 9Kirk MullerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 10Aaron BrotenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15John MacLeanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 19Claude LoiselleC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 12Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 16Pat VerbeekR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 18Mel BridgmanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Anders CarlssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Doug SullimanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Greg AdamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Andy BrickleyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 29Jan LudvigR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Joe CirellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 21Steve RichmondD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 23Bruce DriverD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 27Randy VelischekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Uli HiemerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Alain ChevrierG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Kirk McLeanG | L | 21 | 4 | .809 |
Montréal Canadiens
| 26Mats NaslundL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 32Claude LemieuxR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 8David MaleyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11Ryan WalterC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 27Shayne CorsonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Craig LudwigD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 24Chris CheliosD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 25Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 31John KordicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 35Mike McpheeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 39Brian SkrudlandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Gaston GingrasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brian HaywardG | W | 29 | 2 | .931 |
| 33Patrick RoyG | 0 | 0 | – |