Hartford Whalers vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Sunday, December 21, 1986 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The Hartford Whalers beat the New York Rangers 4–3 in overtime on Sunday, December 21, 1986 at Madison Square Garden. The Whalers outshot the Rangers 29–28.
Kevin Dineen scored a hat trick. Dean Evason, Don Maloney, Kelly Kisio and Tony McKegney also scored.
Steve Weeks made 25 saves on 28 shots for the win; John Vanbiesbrouck stopped 25 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Dean Evason (7)Unassisted1–012:24 HFD ·
2nd period
Don Maloney (5)Kelly Kisio (14), Curt Giles (7)1–100:59 NYR
Kelly Kisio (6)Don Maloney (15), Tom Laidlaw (5)1–217:51 NYR
3rd period
Kevin Dineen (15)Dave Semenko (3), Ulf Samuelsson (13)2–210:55 HFD
Tony McKegney (17)Curt Giles (8)2–312:25 NYR- Kevin Dineen (16)Dave Semenko (4), Ron Francis (25)3–318:44 HFD
Overtime
- Kevin Dineen (17)Unassisted4–302:57 HFD
Team stats
HFDNYR
2928
0%0%
0/30/4
1715
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:06 into the first period
Shane Churla · charging2 min - 5:13 into the first period
Bench · too many men on the ice2 min - 9:47 into the first periodShane Churla · slashing2 min
- 9:47 into the first periodShane Churla · fighting5 min
- 9:47 into the first periodTerry Carkner · slashing2 min
- 9:47 into the first periodTerry Carkner · fighting5 min
- 10:46 into the first periodUlf Samuelsson · interference2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodKevin Dineen · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the first periodTerry Carkner · slashing2 min
- 3:59 into the second periodShane Churla · roughing2 min
- 5:06 into the second periodMark Osborne · holding2 min
- 6:12 into the second periodRon Francis · holding2 min
- 15:16 into the second periodTom Laidlaw · interference2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 11Kevin DineenR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 72Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 7Stew GavinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Scot KleinendorstC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 22Shane ChurlaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Dave BarrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 28Paul LawlessL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 4Dana MurzynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Mike McEwenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Steve WeeksG | W | 28 | 3 | .893 |
New York Rangers
| 12Don MaloneyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 16Kelly KisioC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 6Curt GilesD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 25Tony McKegneyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 2Tom LaidlawD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 8Walt PoddubnyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Pierre LaroucheC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 14Lane LambertR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Mark OsborneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 20Jan ErixonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 28Tomas SandstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 40Kelly MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 4Ron GreschnerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27Willie HuberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 30Larry MelnykD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 38Terry CarknerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33Bob FroeseG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 34John VanbiesbrouckG | L | 29 | 4 | .862 |