New York Rangers vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Saturday, March 21, 1987 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The New York Islanders beat the New York Rangers 4–3 on Saturday, March 21, 1987 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Islanders outshot the Rangers 29–20.
Pat LaFontaine scored twice. Ken Morrow, James Patrick, Ari Haanpaa, Curt Giles and Ron Greschner also scored.
Kelly Hrudey made 17 saves on 20 shots for the win; John Vanbiesbrouck stopped 25 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Ken Morrow (3)Mikko Makela (24), Alan Kerr (10)0–107:56 NYI
James Patrick (8)Tomas Sandstrom (32), Ron Greschner (32)1–110:39 NYR · 
Ari Haanpaa (6)Mikko Makela (25), Pat LaFontaine (27)1–217:13 NYI
2nd period
Curt Giles (2)Ron Duguay (22), Lucien DeBlois (5)2–211:40 NYR
Ron Greschner (6)Unassisted3–214:21 NYR ·
3rd period
Pat LaFontaine (33)Ken Leiter (17), Mikko Makela (26)3–309:43 NYI · - Pat LaFontaine (34)Ken Leiter (18)3–415:05 NYI
Team stats
NYRNYI
2029
0%0%
1/41/6
2622
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:42 into the first period
Pat Price · hooking2 min - 9:02 into the first period
Randy Wood · holding2 min - 14:06 into the first periodPat Price · interference2 min
- 2:20 into the second periodTerry Carkner · hooking2 min
- 5:20 into the second periodBrian Curran · instigator2 min
- 5:20 into the second periodBrian Curran · fighting5 min
- 5:20 into the second periodTerry Carkner · fighting5 min
- 13:39 into the second periodLarry Melnyk · holding2 min
- 18:11 into the second periodAlan Kerr · roughing2 min
- 18:11 into the second periodKelly Kisio · roughing2 min
- 18:35 into the second periodRandy Wood · high sticking2 min
- 18:35 into the second periodJeff Jackson · high sticking2 min
- 18:49 into the second periodTony McKegney · holding2 min
- 0:54 into the third periodBryan Trottier · cross checking2 min
- 5:47 into the third periodDuane Sutter · fighting5 min
- 5:47 into the third periodLarry Melnyk · fighting5 min
- 9:13 into the third periodPat Price · holding2 min
- 11:11 into the third periodRandy Boyd · kneeing2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 4Ron GreschnerD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Tomas SandstromR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 32Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 44Ron DuguayC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 3James PatrickD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 6Curt GilesD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Walt PoddubnyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Pierre LaroucheC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11Kelly KisioC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Jeff JacksonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Marcel DionneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21George McPheeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Tony McKegneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 42Paul FentonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 27Willie HuberD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 30Larry MelnykD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 38Terry CarknerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 47Pat PriceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33Bob FroeseG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 34John VanbiesbrouckG | L | 29 | 4 | .862 |
New York Islanders
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 24Mikko MakelaR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 29Ken LeiterD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 10Alan KerrR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 25Ari HaanpaaR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 6Ken MorrowD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 11Randy WoodR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Duane SutterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Neal CoulterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19Bryan TrottierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 22Mike BossyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 26Patrick FlatleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Bob BassenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 32Brad LauerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Gerald DiduckD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 8Randy BoydD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 33Steve KonroydD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 34Brian CurranD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Kelly HrudeyG | W | 20 | 3 | .850 |
| 31Billy SmithG | 0 | 0 | – |