Toronto Maple Leafs vs Hartford Whalers
Regular season · Sunday, January 4, 1987 · Hartford Civic Center
Game summary
The Hartford Whalers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 8–3 on Sunday, January 4, 1987 at Hartford Civic Center. The Whalers outshot the Maple Leafs 36–25.
Paul Lawless scored twice and Wendel Clark scored twice. Stew Gavin, Dave Babych, Steve Thomas, Ulf Samuelsson, Mike McEwen, Dean Evason and Ron Francis also scored.
Steve Weeks made 22 saves on 25 shots for the win; Ken Wregget stopped 28 of 36.
Scoring
1st period
Stew Gavin (12)Paul Lawless (11)0–114:08 HFD
Paul Lawless (11)Dean Evason (17), Ulf Samuelsson (16)0–214:15 HFD
Dave Babych (5)Ray Ferraro (13)0–315:11 HFD · 
Steve Thomas (17)Al Iafrate (10)1–315:36 TOR
Wendel Clark (20)Rick Lanz (14), Russ Courtnall (24)2–318:34 TOR ·
2nd period
- Paul Lawless (12)Stew Gavin (11), Dean Evason (18)2–400:58 HFD
- Wendel Clark (21)Russ Courtnall (25)3–408:27 TOR
Ulf Samuelsson (1)Paul Lawless (12), Mike Millar (2)3–515:58 HFD
3rd period
Mike McEwen (5)Dave Tippett (9), Dave Barr (4)3–613:11 HFD
Dean Evason (10)Stew Gavin (12), Paul Lawless (13)3–713:58 HFD
Ron Francis (11)Paul Lawless (14), Dave Babych (18)3–817:11 HFD ·
Team stats
TORHFD
2536
0%0%
1/52/5
1010
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:31 into the first period
Bob Mcgill · slashing2 min - 10:31 into the first period
Paul Macdermid · tripping2 min - 15:05 into the first periodRick Lanz · tripping2 min
- 18:16 into the first periodDave Tippett · holding2 min
- 13:35 into the second periodWendel Clark · hooking2 min
- 3:45 into the third periodRick Lanz · tripping2 min
- 8:18 into the third periodMike McEwen · holding2 min
- 16:33 into the third periodMiroslav Ihnacak · holding2 min
- 18:24 into the third periodRay Ferraro · cross checking2 min
- 19:41 into the third periodDana Murzyn · high sticking2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 9Russ CourtnallR | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Wendel ClarkL | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 32Steve ThomasR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 4Rick LanzD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 33Al IafrateD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 7Greg TerrionC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Mike AllisonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Vincent DamphousseC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 11Gary LeemanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Jeff JacksonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 18Peter IhnacakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 22Rick VaiveR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 27Miroslav IhnacakL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 28Kevin MaguireR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Bob McgillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 20Terry JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 26Chris KotsopoulosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Allan BesterG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Ken WreggetG | L | 36 | 8 | .778 |
Hartford Whalers
| 28Paul LawlessL | 2 | 4 | 6 | +5 | 3 | – |
| 7Stew GavinR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 6 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 8Mike MillarR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 24Dave BarrR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Mike McEwenD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 18Scot KleinendorstC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20John AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 72Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Dana MurzynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Steve WeeksG | W | 25 | 3 | .880 |