Hartford Whalers vs Los Angeles Kings
Regular season · Saturday, February 14, 1987 · The Forum
Game summary
The Los Angeles Kings beat the Hartford Whalers 5–2 on Saturday, February 14, 1987 at The Forum. The Kings outshot the Whalers 35–34.
Marcel Dionne scored twice. Dave Williams, Bryan Erickson, Stew Gavin, Sylvain Cote and Luc Robitaille also scored.
Roland Melanson made 32 saves on 34 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 30 of 35.
Scoring
1st period
Dave Williams (12)Bernie Nicholls (35), Dean Kennedy (10)0–100:07 LAK
Marcel Dionne (22)Jay Wells (21), Luc Robitaille (30)0–201:29 LAK
Bryan Erickson (14)Luc Robitaille (31), Jay Wells (22)0–315:53 LAK · 
Stew Gavin (17)Unassisted1–319:11 HFD
2nd period
Sylvain Cote (2)Stew Gavin (19)2–305:29 HFD
3rd period
- Marcel Dionne (23)Jim Fox (24), Bernie Nicholls (36)2–401:47 LAK ·
Luc Robitaille (32)Marcel Dionne (43), Bryan Erickson (26)2–514:18 LAK ·
Team stats
HFDLAK
3435
0%0%
0/23/4
3521
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:40 into the first period
Jay Wells · high sticking2 min - 10:50 into the first period
Sylvain Turgeon · holding2 min - 14:17 into the first periodShane Churla · hooking2 min
- 17:32 into the first periodPaul Macdermid · fighting5 min
- 17:32 into the first periodJoe Paterson · fighting5 min
- 6:15 into the second periodShane Churla · fighting5 min
- 6:15 into the second periodMark Hardy · fighting5 min
- 6:15 into the second periodMarcel Dionne · high sticking2 min
- 19:50 into the second periodPaul Macdermid · elbowing2 min
- 12:04 into the third periodDave Tippett · roughing2 min
- 12:04 into the third periodDean Kennedy · roughing2 min
- 12:50 into the third periodRandy Ladouceur · roughing2 min
- 12:50 into the third periodRandy Ladouceur · misconduct10 min
- 16:03 into the third periodShane Churla · fighting5 min
- 16:03 into the third periodDean Kennedy · fighting5 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 7Stew GavinR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 11Kevin DineenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 18Scot KleinendorstC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20John AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Shane ChurlaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 72Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Dana MurzynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Mike McEwenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 29Randy LadouceurD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 35 | 5 | .857 |
| 31Steve WeeksG | 0 | 0 | – |
Los Angeles Kings
| 16Marcel DionneC | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 20Luc RobitailleL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 9Bernie NichollsC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 15Bryan EricksonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Jay WellsD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 19Jim FoxR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Dave WilliamsL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 6Dean KennedyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 7Phil SykesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 8Paul GuayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Sean MckennaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 14Bob BourneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 17Jimmy CarsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Joe PatersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Grant LedyardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 5Mark HardyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 25Dave LangevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 28Steve DuchesneD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Roland MelansonG | W | 34 | 2 | .941 |
| 35Darren EliotG | 0 | 0 | – |