Hartford Whalers vs Boston Bruins
Regular season · Thursday, January 29, 1987 · Boston Garden
Game summary
The Hartford Whalers beat the Boston Bruins 6–3 on Thursday, January 29, 1987 at Boston Garden. The Whalers outshot the Bruins 36–31.
Stew Gavin scored twice and Sylvain Turgeon scored twice. Dana Murzyn, Tom McCarthy, Thomas Gradin, Jay Miller and Dean Evason also scored.
Mike Liut made 28 saves on 31 shots for the win; Bill Ranford stopped 30 of 35.
Scoring
1st period
Stew Gavin (14)Sylvain Cote (3), Scot Kleinendorst (7)1–001:44 HFD
Sylvain Turgeon (4)Dean Evason (22), Ulf Samuelsson (23)2–005:26 HFD
2nd period
Dana Murzyn (8)Doug Jarvis (7)3–005:12 HFD · 
Tom McCarthy (23)Bob Sweeney (3), Jay Miller (4)3–112:43 BOS
Thomas Gradin (10)Tom McCarthy (20), Michael Thelven (5)3–217:55 BOS ·
3rd period
Jay Miller (1)Bob Sweeney (4), Tom McCarthy (21)3–304:03 BOS- Sylvain Turgeon (5)Dean Evason (23), Stew Gavin (15)4–316:00 HFD
Dean Evason (15)Sylvain Turgeon (5)5–318:22 HFD- Stew Gavin (15)Unassisted6–319:58 HFD ·
Team stats
HFDBOS
3631
0%0%
1/31/4
2725
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 7:11 into the first period
Ken Linseman · roughing2 min - 7:11 into the first period
Randy Ladouceur · slashing2 min - 14:50 into the first periodRandy Ladouceur · hooking2 min
- 18:45 into the first periodJay Miller · fighting5 min
- 18:45 into the first periodShane Churla · fighting5 min
- 3:16 into the second periodSteve Kasper · tripping2 min
- 5:52 into the second periodDean Evason · hooking2 min
- 6:36 into the second periodKen Linseman · roughing2 min
- 9:14 into the second periodRandy Ladouceur · tripping2 min
- 13:51 into the second periodCam Neely · fighting5 min
- 13:51 into the second periodScot Kleinendorst · fighting5 min
- 15:58 into the second periodShane Churla · cross checking2 min
- 4:27 into the third periodCam Neely · fighting5 min
- 4:27 into the third periodScot Kleinendorst · fighting5 min
- 6:04 into the third periodKen Linseman · cross checking2 min
- 19:23 into the third periodTom McCarthy · cross checking2 min
- 19:23 into the third periodKevin Dineen · holding2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 7Stew GavinR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +5 | 7 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +4 | 3 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +4 | 5 | – |
| 18Scot KleinendorstC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Doug JarvisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 4Dana MurzynD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 11Kevin DineenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20John AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Shane ChurlaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 72Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Mike McEwenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 29Randy LadouceurD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | W | 31 | 3 | .903 |
| 31Steve WeeksG | 0 | 0 | – |
Boston Bruins
| 19Tom McCarthyL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 29Jay MillerL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 42Bob SweeneyC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 10Thomas GradinC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 22Michael ThelvenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 8Cam NeelyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 11Steve KasperC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 13Ken LinsemanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 16Rick MiddletonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 17Nevin MarkwartL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 18Keith CrowderR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 23Charlie SimmerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 39Greg JohnstonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 7Ray BourqueD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 26Mike MilburyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Mats ThelinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 5 | – |
| 41Allen PedersenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Bill RanfordG | L | 35 | 5 | .857 |
| 31Doug KeansG | 0 | 0 | – |