New Jersey Devils vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Thursday, March 5, 1987 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the New Jersey Devils 6–4 on Thursday, March 5, 1987 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Devils 31–28.
Goals came from Doug Sulliman, Clark Gillies, Paul Brydges, Pat Verbeek, Scott Arniel, Ken Priestlay, Don Lever, Mike Foligno, Joe Cirella and Kirk Muller.
Tom Barrasso made 24 saves on 28 shots for the win; Craig Billington stopped 9 of 15.
Scoring
1st period
Doug Sulliman (25)Mark Johnson (17), Mel Bridgman (31)1–000:16 NJD
Clark Gillies (8)Mike Foligno (25), Adam Creighton (16)1–101:29 BUF
Paul Brydges (2)Jim Korn (5), Clark Gillies (15)1–211:56 BUF
Pat Verbeek (27)Mark Johnson (18), Joe Cirella (14)2–213:57 NJD · 
Scott Arniel (9)Doug Smith (16), Mike Ramsey (24)2–315:02 BUF
Ken Priestlay (7)Jim Korn (6)2–418:40 BUF
2nd period
Don Lever (2)Mike Ramsey (25), Adam Creighton (17)2–502:07 BUF · 
Mike Foligno (22)Dave Andreychuk (35), Christian Ruuttu (36)2–603:43 BUF · 
Joe Cirella (8)Unassisted3–609:44 NJD ·
3rd period
Kirk Muller (19)Aaron Broten (41), Mark Johnson (19)4–600:29 NJD ·
Team stats
NJDBUF
2831
0%0%
3/62/7
1612
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:02 into the first period
Murray Brumwell · hooking2 min - 9:44 into the first periodClaude Loiselle · hooking2 min
- 13:48 into the first period
Christian Ruuttu · tripping2 min - 0:30 into the second periodPerry Anderson · hooking2 min
- 2:38 into the second periodCraig Wolanin · hooking2 min
- 9:25 into the second periodMike Ramsey · holding2 min
- 15:52 into the second periodMark Johnson · holding2 min
- 18:30 into the second periodPhil Housley · cross checking2 min
- 0:59 into the third periodMark Ferner · hooking2 min
- 1:56 into the third periodKirk Muller · tripping2 min
- 2:21 into the third periodJoe Reekie · tripping2 min
- 4:59 into the third periodAdam Creighton · hooking2 min
- 13:02 into the third periodGordon Mark · cross checking2 min
- 18:14 into the third periodKen Daneyko · holding2 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 12Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Joe CirellaD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 9Kirk MullerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 10Aaron BrotenC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 16Pat VerbeekR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 18Mel BridgmanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 22Doug SullimanL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Richard ChernomazR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 15John MacLeanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 19Claude LoiselleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 20Anders CarlssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Greg AdamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Perry AndersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Gordon MarkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 6Craig WolaninD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Randy VelischekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 1 | – |
| 33Murray BrumwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Alain ChevrierG | 16 | 0 | 1.000 | |
| 31Craig BillingtonG | L | 15 | 6 | .600 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 17Mike FolignoR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 38Adam CreightonC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 39Clark GilliesL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 34Jim KornD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 8Don LeverC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 9Scott ArnielL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 12Ken PriestlayC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 15Doug SmithC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 16Paul BrydgesC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 21Christian RuuttuC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 4Steve DykstraL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 3Richie DunnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 29Mark FernerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 31Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jacques CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | W | 28 | 4 | .857 |