New York Rangers vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Saturday, December 20, 1986 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The New York Islanders beat the New York Rangers 5–2 on Saturday, December 20, 1986 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Islanders outshot the Rangers 26–17.
Brent Sutter scored a hat trick. Patrick Flatley, Pierre Larouche, Ron Greschner and Brad Lauer also scored.
Kelly Hrudey made 15 saves on 17 shots for the win; John Vanbiesbrouck stopped 21 of 25.
Scoring
1st period
Brent Sutter (16)Mikko Makela (8), Patrick Flatley (19)0–102:44 NYI
Patrick Flatley (12)Brent Sutter (17), Mikko Makela (9)0–208:24 NYI
Pierre Larouche (12)Kelly Kisio (13), Ron Greschner (14)1–215:25 NYR ·
2nd period
Ron Greschner (3)Chris Jensen (6)2–203:57 NYR- Brent Sutter (17)Steve Konroyd (6), Tomas Jonsson (15)2–312:26 NYI
3rd period
- Brent Sutter (18)Mikko Makela (10), Patrick Flatley (20)2–418:28 NYI
Brad Lauer (4)Duane Sutter (10)2–518:55 NYI ·
Team stats
NYRNYI
1726
0%0%
1/30/3
88
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:16 into the first period
Walt Poddubny · holding2 min - 13:37 into the first periodJames Patrick · hooking2 min
- 13:51 into the first period
Patrick Flatley · interference2 min - 15:14 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 8:37 into the second periodJames Patrick · hooking2 min
- 18:07 into the second periodSteve Konroyd · roughing2 min
- 18:07 into the second periodTomas Sandstrom · roughing2 min
- 12:36 into the third periodPat LaFontaine · holding2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 4Ron GreschnerD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Pierre LaroucheC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Chris JensenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Kelly KisioC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 8Walt PoddubnyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 12Don MaloneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 14Lane LambertR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 19Mark OsborneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 20Jan ErixonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 25Tony McKegneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 28Tomas SandstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 40Kelly MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Tom LaidlawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 6Curt GilesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 27Willie HuberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 30Larry MelnykD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Doug SoetaertG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 34John VanbiesbrouckG | L | 25 | 4 | .840 |
New York Islanders
| 21Brent SutterC | 3 | 1 | 4 | +4 | 5 | – |
| 24Mikko MakelaR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 26Patrick FlatleyR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +4 | 3 | – |
| 12Duane SutterR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 32Brad LauerR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 3Tomas JonssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 33Steve KonroydD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Greg GilbertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Bryan TrottierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Mike BossyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 28Bob BassenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 35Richard KrommL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Gord DineenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 5Denis PotvinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 6Ken MorrowD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 8Randy BoydD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 34Brian CurranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Kelly HrudeyG | W | 17 | 2 | .882 |
| 31Billy SmithG | 0 | 0 | – |