Detroit Red Wings vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Tuesday, February 17, 1987 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the Detroit Red Wings 6–2 on Tuesday, February 17, 1987 at Madison Square Garden. The Red Wings outshot the Rangers 44–33.
Don Maloney scored twice, Walt Poddubny scored twice and Shawn Burr scored twice. Pierre Larouche and Bobby Carpenter also scored.
John Vanbiesbrouck made 42 saves on 44 shots for the win; Glen Hanlon stopped 20 of 25.
Scoring
1st period
Don Maloney (14)Pierre Larouche (30), Kelly Kisio (31)0–106:20 NYR
2nd period
Walt Poddubny (32)Tony McKegney (14), Jan Erixon (14)0–200:58 NYR
Pierre Larouche (24)Kelly Kisio (32), James Patrick (33)0–307:00 NYR · 
Bobby Carpenter (7)Don Maloney (31), Kelly Kisio (33)0–412:43 NYR
Shawn Burr (16)Tim Higgins (9), Brent Ashton (27)1–416:44 DET
3rd period
- Walt Poddubny (33)Curt Giles (17)1–503:34 NYR
- Don Maloney (15)Pierre Larouche (31), Brad Maxwell (11)1–603:54 NYR
- Shawn Burr (17)Brent Ashton (28), Rick Zombo (3)2–610:01 DET
Team stats
DETNYR
4433
0%0%
0/41/4
1919
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:34 into the first period
Mark Osborne · hooking2 min - 12:27 into the first period
Darren Veitch · hooking2 min - 16:09 into the first periodJoey Kocur · elbowing2 min
- 16:09 into the first periodJoey Kocur · fighting5 min
- 16:09 into the first periodLucien DeBlois · instigator2 min
- 16:09 into the first periodLucien DeBlois · fighting5 min
- 5:08 into the second periodDave Lewis · interference2 min
- 8:40 into the second periodBench · penalty shot0 min
- 9:16 into the second periodGerard Gallant · high sticking2 min
- 9:16 into the second periodJoey Kocur · roughing2 min
- 1:25 into the third periodPetr Klima · slashing2 min
- 1:25 into the third periodTom Laidlaw · slashing2 min
- 6:22 into the third periodMark Osborne · slashing2 min
- 13:28 into the third periodLane Lambert · holding2 min
- 18:14 into the third periodWalt Poddubny · hooking2 min
- 19:18 into the third periodJoey Kocur · roughing2 min
- 19:18 into the third periodRon Greschner · roughing2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 11Shawn BurrL | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 14Brent AshtonL | 0 | 2 | 2 | −2 | 6 | – |
| 20Tim HigginsR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 4Rick ZomboD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 8Mark LambC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Gerard GallantL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 19Steve YzermanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 6 | – |
| 21Adam OatesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 22Dave BarrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 26Joey KocurR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Dale KrentzL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 85Petr KlimaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 7 | – |
| 2Mike O'connellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Steve ChiassonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Darren VeitchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 27Harold SnepstsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 52Dave LewisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glen HanlonG | L | 25 | 5 | .800 |
| 31Mark LaforestG | 8 | 1 | .875 |
New York Rangers
| 10Pierre LaroucheC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 12Don MaloneyL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 5 | – |
| 16Kelly KisioC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 8Walt PoddubnyL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 11Bobby CarpenterC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 20Jan ErixonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 25Tony McKegneyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 6Curt GilesD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Brad MaxwellD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 14Lane LambertR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 19Mark OsborneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 23Raimo HelminenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 35Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 44Ron DuguayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 2Tom LaidlawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 4Ron GreschnerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 30Larry MelnykD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33Bob FroeseG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 34John VanbiesbrouckG | W | 44 | 2 | .955 |