St. Louis Blues vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Thursday, February 26, 1987 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the St. Louis Blues 4–3 on Thursday, February 26, 1987 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Blues 27–26.
Wilf Paiement scored a hat trick. Bernie Federko, Christian Ruuttu, Doug Gilmour and Tim Bothwell also scored.
Tom Barrasso made 23 saves on 26 shots for the win; Rick Wamsley stopped 23 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Bernie Federko (12)Mark Hunter (24), Rob Ramage (20)1–016:28 STL · 
Wilf Paiement (18)Clark Gillies (13), Adam Creighton (14)1–117:47 BUF
Christian Ruuttu (12)Dave Andreychuk (33)1–219:06 BUF
2nd period
Doug Gilmour (29)Mark Hunter (25), Rob Ramage (21)2–201:22 STL ·
3rd period
- Wilf Paiement (19)Adam Creighton (15)2–301:32 BUF
Tim Bothwell (4)Jim Pavese (9)3–301:42 STL- Wilf Paiement (20)Clark Gillies (14)3–405:11 BUF
Team stats
STLBUF
2627
0%0%
2/30/3
1010
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:52 into the first period
Jim Pavese · hooking2 min - 13:33 into the first periodCharlie Bourgeois · tripping2 min
- 15:29 into the first period
Ken Priestlay · holding2 min - 0:15 into the second periodDoug Smith · high sticking2 min
- 7:27 into the second periodMike Ramsey · tripping2 min
- 12:47 into the second periodRick Meagher · hooking2 min
- 8:49 into the third periodJoe Reekie · roughing2 min
- 8:49 into the third periodMark Hunter · roughing2 min
- 11:38 into the third periodPaul Cyr · high sticking2 min
- 11:38 into the third periodRob Ramage · holding2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 20Mark HunterR | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 9Doug GilmourC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 6Tim BothwellD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 35Jim PaveseD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Cliff RonningC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Ron FlockhartC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 14Doug WickenheiserC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Mark ReedsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 17Gino CavalliniL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Rick MeagherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 25Herb RaglanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Greg PaslawskiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 32Doug EvansL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Brian BenningD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 4Charlie BourgeoisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 10Bruce BellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Greg MillenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Rick WamsleyG | L | 27 | 4 | .852 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 27Wilf PaiementR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 38Adam CreightonC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 39Clark GilliesL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 21Christian RuuttuC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 9Scott ArnielL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Ken PriestlayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Doug SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Robert LoganR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 32Normand LacombeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 28Tom KurversD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 31Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 34Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 37Shawn AndersonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jacques CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | W | 26 | 3 | .885 |