Hartford Whalers vs New Jersey Devils
Regular season · Monday, January 12, 1987 · Brendan Byrne Arena
Game summary
The New Jersey Devils beat the Hartford Whalers 7–5 on Monday, January 12, 1987 at Brendan Byrne Arena. The Whalers outshot the Devils 38–26.
Mark Johnson scored twice and Bruce Driver scored twice. Doug Sulliman, Ron Francis, Sylvain Turgeon, Greg Adams, Scot Kleinendorst, Kevin Dineen, Dave Babych and Pat Verbeek also scored.
Craig Billington made 33 saves on 38 shots for the win; Steve Weeks stopped 19 of 25.
Scoring
1st period
Doug Sulliman (16)John MacLean (13), Greg Adams (17)0–103:22 NJD
Mark Johnson (12)Mel Bridgman (22), Ken Daneyko (5)0–205:38 NJD
Ron Francis (13)Kevin Dineen (16), Ulf Samuelsson (17)1–207:41 HFD
Sylvain Turgeon (1)Dave Babych (20)2–216:45 HFD · 
Greg Adams (14)John MacLean (14), Mark Johnson (10)2–317:48 NJD · 
Scot Kleinendorst (2)Sylvain Turgeon (2), Dean Evason (20)3–319:47 HFD
2nd period
Bruce Driver (2)Doug Sulliman (14), Mel Bridgman (23)3–413:16 NJD
Kevin Dineen (19)Dave Babych (21), John Anderson (20)4–414:12 HFD ·
3rd period
- Bruce Driver (3)Aaron Broten (33), Kirk Muller (26)4–505:47 NJD
Dave Babych (6)John Anderson (21), Mike McEwen (5)5–510:34 HFD · 
Pat Verbeek (19)Unassisted5–611:39 NJD- Mark Johnson (13)Mel Bridgman (24)5–719:50 NJD ·
Team stats
HFDNJD
3826
0%0%
3/51/6
1917
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:13 into the first period
Scot Kleinendorst · holding2 min - 10:24 into the first periodDave Tippett · holding2 min
- 15:09 into the first period
Timo Blomqvist · interference2 min - 17:06 into the first periodRay Ferraro · tripping2 min
- 3:52 into the second periodDoug Jarvis · holding2 min
- 11:13 into the second periodRon Francis · high sticking2 min
- 13:34 into the second periodAaron Broten · tripping2 min
- 14:56 into the second periodUlf Samuelsson · roughing2 min
- 14:56 into the second periodKirk Muller · roughing2 min
- 18:33 into the second periodJan Ludvig · hooking2 min
- 6:10 into the third periodJohn MacLean · slashing2 min
- 10:07 into the third periodRandy Velischek · tripping2 min
- 15:52 into the third periodDave Tippett · interference2 min
- 16:47 into the third periodScot Kleinendorst · fighting5 min
- 16:47 into the third periodKirk Muller · fighting5 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 44Dave BabychD | 1 | 2 | 3 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 11Kevin DineenR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 20John AndersonR | 0 | 2 | 2 | −3 | 5 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 5 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 18Scot KleinendorstC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 25Mike McEwenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 7Stew GavinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Wayne BabychR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 27Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 72Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Dana MurzynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Steve WeeksG | L | 25 | 6 | .760 |
New Jersey Devils
| 12Mark JohnsonC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 18Mel BridgmanC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 15John MacLeanR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 22Doug SullimanL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 24Greg AdamsL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 23Bruce DriverD | 2 | 0 | 2 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 9Kirk MullerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 10Aaron BrotenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Pat VerbeekR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 19Claude LoiselleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Perry AndersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Andy BrickleyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 29Jan LudvigR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Timo BlomqvistD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 6Craig WolaninD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Randy VelischekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 28Uli HiemerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Alain ChevrierG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Craig BillingtonG | W | 38 | 5 | .868 |