Boston Bruins vs Hartford Whalers
Regular season · Wednesday, February 25, 1987 · Hartford Civic Center
Game summary
The Hartford Whalers beat the Boston Bruins 6–4 on Wednesday, February 25, 1987 at Hartford Civic Center. The Whalers outshot the Bruins 34–27.
Ray Ferraro scored twice, Rick Middleton scored twice and Paul Lawless scored twice. Cam Neely, Steve Kasper, Sylvain Turgeon and Kevin Dineen also scored.
Mike Liut made 23 saves on 27 shots for the win; Roberto Romano stopped 28 of 34.
Scoring
1st period
Cam Neely (28)Geoff Courtnall (22), Reed Larson (21)1–000:20 BOS
Ray Ferraro (21)Sylvain Turgeon (6), Kevin Dineen (31)1–103:45 HFD · - Ray Ferraro (22)Mike McEwen (8), John Anderson (34)1–207:00 HFD ·
Steve Kasper (15)Rick Middleton (28)2–213:17 BOS ·
2nd period
Sylvain Turgeon (11)Unassisted2–305:56 HFD
Kevin Dineen (26)Ron Francis (41), Paul Lawless (17)2–417:52 HFD
3rd period
Rick Middleton (17)Keith Crowder (21), Steve Kasper (17)3–405:55 BOS
Paul Lawless (14)Ron Francis (42), Ulf Samuelsson (26)3–509:28 HFD- Rick Middleton (18)Steve Kasper (18)4–514:12 BOS
- Paul Lawless (15)Ron Francis (43)4–615:09 HFD
Team stats
BOSHFD
2734
0%0%
0/52/6
2422
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:05 into the first period
Ron Francis · holding2 min - 2:41 into the first period
Geoff Courtnall · instigator2 min - 2:41 into the first periodGeoff Courtnall · fighting5 min
- 2:41 into the first periodRandy Ladouceur · fighting5 min
- 5:02 into the first periodMike Milbury · cross checking2 min
- 12:24 into the first periodKen Linseman · tripping2 min
- 13:54 into the first periodRay Bourque · roughing2 min
- 13:54 into the first periodGreg Johnston · roughing2 min
- 13:54 into the first periodDean Evason · roughing2 min
- 16:39 into the first periodUlf Samuelsson · holding2 min
- 17:13 into the first periodDave Tippett · slashing2 min
- 8:05 into the second periodGreg Johnston · elbowing2 min
- 19:48 into the second periodStew Gavin · slashing2 min
- 3:37 into the third periodJay Miller · fighting5 min
- 3:37 into the third periodDave Semenko · fighting5 min
- 6:47 into the third periodMike McEwen · tripping2 min
- 10:06 into the third periodAllen Pedersen · cross checking2 min
Season series
Boston Bruins
| 11Steve KasperC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 16Rick MiddletonR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 8Cam NeelyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 14Geoff CourtnallL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Keith CrowderR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 13Ken LinsemanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Nevin MarkwartL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 20Dwight FosterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 23Charlie SimmerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 29Jay MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 39Greg JohnstonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 42Bob SweeneyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Ray BourqueD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 22Michael ThelvenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 2 | – |
| 26Mike MilburyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 27Mats ThelinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 41Allen PedersenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Roberto RomanoG | L | 34 | 6 | .824 |
| 31Doug KeansG | 0 | 0 | – |
Hartford Whalers
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 28Paul LawlessL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 11Kevin DineenR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 20John AndersonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Mike McEwenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 7Stew GavinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 18Scot KleinendorstC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 72Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 29Randy LadouceurD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | W | 27 | 4 | .852 |
| 31Steve WeeksG | 0 | 0 | – |