Toronto Maple Leafs vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Tuesday, March 24, 1987 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Buffalo Sabres 6–5 on Tuesday, March 24, 1987 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Maple Leafs outshot the Sabres 33–26.
Dave Andreychuk scored twice. Rick Vaive, Vincent Damphousse, Russ Courtnall, Wendel Clark, Christian Ruuttu, Dan Daoust, Peter Ihnacak, Phil Housley and Mark Napier also scored.
Ken Wregget made 21 saves on 26 shots for the win; Tom Barrasso stopped 23 of 26.
Scoring
1st period
Rick Vaive (31)Steve Thomas (25)1–000:17 TOR
Vincent Damphousse (19)Gary Leeman (30), Tom Fergus (27)2–005:18 TOR · 
Russ Courtnall (28)Greg Terrion (7)3–006:31 TOR · 
Dave Andreychuk (22)Adam Creighton (19), Shawn Anderson (11)3–108:48 BUF · 
Wendel Clark (33)Dan Daoust (2), Mark Osborne (22)4–117:42 TOR
2nd period
Christian Ruuttu (19)Dave Andreychuk (41), Phil Housley (41)4–201:48 BUF
Dan Daoust (3)Borje Salming (14), Ken Wregget (4)5–219:38 TOR
3rd period
- Dave Andreychuk (23)Christian Ruuttu (40)5–307:42 BUF
Peter Ihnacak (11)Rick Vaive (32), Steve Thomas (26)6–309:32 TOR
Phil Housley (18)Doug Smith (22), Dave Andreychuk (42)6–412:11 BUF · 
Mark Napier (12)Adam Creighton (20), Mike Ramsey (30)6–514:14 BUF ·
Team stats
TORBUF
3326
0%0%
1/33/5
2720
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:12 into the first period
Clark Gillies · roughing2 min - 2:12 into the first period
Derek Laxdal · boarding2 min - 3:31 into the first periodPhil Housley · fighting5 min
- 3:31 into the first periodDan Daoust · fighting5 min
- 3:53 into the first periodLee Fogolin · roughing2 min
- 5:41 into the first periodTom Fergus · slashing2 min
- 7:59 into the first periodTom Fergus · holding2 min
- 13:45 into the first periodClark Gillies · instigator2 min
- 13:45 into the first periodClark Gillies · fighting5 min
- 13:45 into the first periodDerek Laxdal · fighting5 min
- 12:07 into the second periodPhil Housley · holding2 min
- 12:37 into the second periodMark Osborne · high sticking5 min
- 12:03 into the third periodMark Osborne · slashing2 min
- 13:31 into the third periodDan Daoust · holding2 min
- 15:03 into the third periodDoug Smith · elbowing2 min
- 15:03 into the third periodBorje Salming · high sticking2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 22Rick VaiveR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 24Dan DaoustC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 32Steve ThomasR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 7Greg TerrionC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 9Russ CourtnallR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 10Vincent DamphousseC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 11Gary LeemanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 12Mark OsborneL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 17Wendel ClarkL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 18Peter IhnacakC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 19Tom FergusC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 20Derek LaxdalR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 27Miroslav IhnacakL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Rick LanzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Todd GillD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 25Bill RootD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 33Al IafrateD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Tim BernhardtG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Ken WreggetG | W | 26 | 5 | .808 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 2 | 2 | 4 | +1 | 8 | – |
| 21Christian RuuttuC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 38Adam CreightonC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 15Doug SmithC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 65Mark NapierR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 37Shawn AndersonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Steve DykstraL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Scott ArnielL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 12Ken PriestlayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Mikael AnderssonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 26Robert LoganR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 39Clark GilliesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 31Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 33Lee FogolinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 34Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jacques CloutierG | 7 | 3 | .571 | |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | L | 26 | 3 | .885 |