New York Rangers vs Pittsburgh Penguins
Regular season · Tuesday, December 30, 1986 · Civic Arena
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 5–3 on Tuesday, December 30, 1986 at Civic Arena. The Penguins outshot the Rangers 34–30.
Walt Poddubny scored twice and Jan Erixon scored twice. Craig Simpson, Tomas Sandstrom, Bob Errey and Dan Quinn also scored.
Bob Froese made 31 saves on 34 shots for the win; Gilles Meloche stopped 25 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Walt Poddubny (19)Curt Giles (12), Jan Erixon (5)1–007:11 NYR
2nd period
Craig Simpson (14)Terry Ruskowski (25), Kevin Lavallee (18)1–106:09 PIT · 
Tomas Sandstrom (10)Walt Poddubny (21), James Patrick (19)2–109:32 NYR · 
Bob Errey (8)Dan Quinn (12), Rod Buskas (3)2–216:05 PIT ·
3rd period
Jan Erixon (4)Tomas Sandstrom (20), Walt Poddubny (22)3–210:21 NYR
Dan Quinn (13)Willy Lindstrom (5)3–311:24 PIT- Walt Poddubny (20)Tomas Sandstrom (21), Willie Huber (11)4–314:06 NYR
- Jan Erixon (5)Kelly Kisio (16)5–319:47 NYR ·
Team stats
NYRPIT
3034
0%0%
1/12/2
119
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:35 into the second period
Curt Giles · holding2 min - 8:15 into the second period
Chris Dahlquist · holding2 min - 14:51 into the second periodKelly Miller · hooking2 min
- 2:15 into the third periodKelly Kisio · high sticking2 min
- 2:15 into the third periodWilly Lindstrom · high sticking2 min
- 19:23 into the third periodJames Patrick · fighting5 min
- 19:23 into the third periodTerry Ruskowski · fighting5 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 8Walt PoddubnyL | 2 | 2 | 4 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 20Jan ErixonL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +4 | 3 | – |
| 28Tomas SandstromR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 5 | – |
| 16Kelly KisioC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 6Curt GilesD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 27Willie HuberD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 10Pierre LaroucheC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Don MaloneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 14Lane LambertR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 18Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 19Mark OsborneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 25Tony McKegneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 40Kelly MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Tom LaidlawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 4Ron GreschnerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 30Larry MelnykD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 38Terry CarknerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Doug SoetaertG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Bob FroeseG | W | 34 | 3 | .912 |
Pittsburgh Penguins
| 14Dan QuinnC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 6 | – |
| 8Terry RuskowskiC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 12Bob ErreyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 16Kevin LavalleeL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 18Craig SimpsonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 19Willy LindstromR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 7Rod BuskasD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 9John ChabotC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 15Randy CunneyworthL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Dwight MathiasenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Dan FrawleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 29Phil BourqueL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 32Dave HannanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 2Chris DahlquistD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 3Doug BodgerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 5Ville SirenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 6Jim JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 23Randy HillierD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Gilles MelocheG | L | 29 | 4 | .862 |
| 30Roberto RomanoG | 0 | 0 | – |