Philadelphia Flyers vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Wednesday, January 28, 1987 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Buffalo Sabres 7–4 on Wednesday, January 28, 1987 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Flyers 40–27.
Peter Zezel scored a hat trick and Tim Kerr scored twice. Scott Mellanby, Clark Gillies, Brad McCrimmon, Jim Korn, Mike Foligno and Dave Andreychuk also scored.
Ron Hextall made 36 saves on 40 shots for the win; Jacques Cloutier stopped 20 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Peter Zezel (23)Glen Seabrooke (2)1–000:54 PHI
Tim Kerr (39)Scott Mellanby (13), Brad McCrimmon (13)2–009:25 PHI · - Tim Kerr (40)Glen Seabrooke (3), Peter Zezel (27)3–013:58 PHI
Scott Mellanby (10)Mark Freer (1), Derrick Smith (14)4–014:22 PHI
2nd period
Clark Gillies (4)Mike Foligno (14), Adam Creighton (8)4–102:33 BUF · 
Brad McCrimmon (6)Murray Craven (20), Tim Kerr (23)5–114:17 PHI
3rd period
Jim Korn (3)Christian Ruuttu (25), Dave Andreychuk (24)5–201:00 BUF
Mike Foligno (15)Clark Gillies (12), Adam Creighton (9)5–310:00 BUF- Peter Zezel (24)Glen Seabrooke (4)6–310:46 PHI
- Peter Zezel (25)John Stevens (1), Tim Kerr (24)7–318:25 PHI ·
Dave Andreychuk (15)Christian Ruuttu (26)7–419:47 BUF
Team stats
PHIBUF
2740
0%0%
2/21/4
128
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:11 into the first period
Jim Korn · hooking2 min - 17:04 into the first period
Kjell Samuelsson · interference2 min - 19:25 into the first periodKjell Samuelsson · hooking2 min
- 1:59 into the second periodBrad Marsh · tripping2 min
- 12:01 into the second periodRon Hextall · delaying game2 min
- 11:28 into the third periodChristian Ruuttu · high sticking2 min
- 11:28 into the third periodDave Poulin · slashing2 min
- 15:31 into the third periodPaul Cyr · roughing2 min
- 15:31 into the third periodDon Nachbaur · roughing2 min
- 18:00 into the third periodJoe Reekie · holding2 min
Season series
Philadelphia Flyers
| 12Tim KerrR | 2 | 2 | 4 | +4 | 4 | – |
| 25Peter ZezelC | 3 | 1 | 4 | +3 | 5 | – |
| 11Glen SeabrookeC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 19Scott MellanbyR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 10Brad McCrimmonD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 24Derrick SmithL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 32Murray CravenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 37Mark FreerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 41John StevensD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 18Lindsay CarsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Dave PoulinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 36Ray AllisonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 42Don NachbaurC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Doug CrossmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 8Brad MarshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15J.J. DaigneaultD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Ed HospodarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Kjell SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Ron HextallG | W | 40 | 4 | .900 |
| 33Glenn ReschG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 17Mike FolignoR | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 21Christian RuuttuC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 38Adam CreightonC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 39Clark GilliesL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 34Jim KornD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 7John TuckerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 9Scott ArnielL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 14Mikael AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 26Robert LoganR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Wilf PaiementR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 28Tom KurversD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 31Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 37Shawn AndersonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jacques CloutierG | L | 27 | 7 | .741 |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | 0 | 0 | – |