Hartford Whalers vs Edmonton Oilers
Regular season · Sunday, March 15, 1987 · Northlands Coliseum
Game summary
The Edmonton Oilers beat the Hartford Whalers 4–1 on Sunday, March 15, 1987 at Northlands Coliseum. The Oilers outshot the Whalers 33–25.
Mark Messier scored twice. Wayne Gretzky, Kent Nilsson and Kevin Dineen also scored.
Andy Moog made 24 saves on 25 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 29 of 33.
Scoring
2nd period
Wayne Gretzky (60)Esa Tikkanen (41)0–101:58 EDM
Mark Messier (34)Craig MacTavish (16), Randy Gregg (16)0–206:22 EDM · 
Kent Nilsson (14)Mark Messier (61), Wayne Gretzky (109)0–310:12 EDM · - Mark Messier (35)Reijo Ruotsalainen (3), Kent Nilsson (37)0–419:35 EDM
3rd period
Kevin Dineen (32)Dana Murzyn (17), Paul Lawless (26)1–408:05 HFD
Team stats
HFDEDM
2533
0%0%
0/21/3
64
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 11:40 into the first period
Sylvain Cote · holding2 min - 5:22 into the second period
Paul Coffey · holding2 min - 9:07 into the second periodSylvain Turgeon · hooking2 min
- 14:23 into the second periodUlf Samuelsson · high sticking2 min
- 11:32 into the third periodDave Hunter · hooking2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 11Kevin DineenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 28Paul LawlessL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 4Dana MurzynD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 7Stew GavinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20John AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 22Shane ChurlaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 27Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 36Gord ShervenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 72Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 25Mike McEwenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Randy LadouceurD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 33 | 4 | .879 |
| 31Steve WeeksG | 0 | 0 | – |
Edmonton Oilers
| 11Mark MessierC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 15Kent NilssonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | – |
| 10Esa TikkanenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 14Craig MacTavishC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 21Randy GreggD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 29Reijo RuotsalainenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 9Glenn AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 12Dave HunterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Jari KurriR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 20Jaroslav PouzarL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 23Moe LemayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Kevin McClellandR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Mike KrushelnyskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Kevin LoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 7Paul CoffeyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Charlie HuddyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Craig MuniD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35Andy MoogG | W | 25 | 1 | .960 |