Hartford Whalers vs Quebec Nordiques
Playoffs · Thursday, April 16, 1987 · Le Colisée
HartfordWhalersNow the Carolina HurricanesAway
4–5
Final, in overtime35–34
QuebecNordiquesNow the Colorado AvalancheHome
Game summary
The Quebec Nordiques beat the Hartford Whalers 5–4 in overtime on Thursday, April 16, 1987 at Le Colisée. The Whalers outshot the Nordiques 35–34.
Kevin Dineen scored twice and Peter Stastny scored twice. Dean Evason, Lane Lambert, Dave Babych, John Ogrodnick and Jason Lafreniere also scored.
Mario Gosselin made 31 saves on 35 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 29 of 34.
Scoring
1st period
Dean Evason (3)Stew Gavin (4)1–001:06 HFD
Lane Lambert (2)Jason Lafreniere (3), John Ogrodnick (2)1–103:22 QUE
Dave Babych (1)Kevin Dineen (1), Ulf Samuelsson (1)2–106:43 HFD · 
Kevin Dineen (1)Paul Lawless (2), Ron Francis (2)3–113:32 HFD
2nd period
- Kevin Dineen (2)John Anderson (2)4–106:24 HFD ·
Peter Stastny (5)Risto Siltanen (8)4–213:47 QUE · 
John Ogrodnick (5)Lane Lambert (3), Jason Lafreniere (4)4–314:17 QUE
3rd period
Jason Lafreniere (1)John Ogrodnick (3), Robert Picard (6)4–407:05 QUE ·
Overtime
- Peter Stastny (6)Dale Hunter (6), Randy Moller (1)4–506:08 QUE
Team stats
HFDQUE
3534
0%0%
2/52/4
3122
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:26 into the first periodPaul Gillis · roughing2 min
- 11:27 into the first periodSylvain Turgeon · slashing2 min
- 11:27 into the first periodSteven Finn · high sticking2 min
- 15:06 into the first periodDean Evason · high sticking2 min
- 15:06 into the first periodMichel Goulet · roughing2 min
- 17:10 into the first periodRandy Moller · holding2 min
- 18:17 into the first periodRay Ferraro · hooking2 min
- 2:32 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 4:11 into the second periodPaul Lawless · slashing2 min
- 4:11 into the second periodAlain Cote · holding2 min
- 5:45 into the second periodDale Hunter · holding2 min
- 6:57 into the second periodDean Evason · spearing5 min
- 6:57 into the second periodDean Evason · game misconduct10 min
- 6:57 into the second periodBasil Mcrae · slashing2 min
- 10:41 into the second periodSylvain Cote · interference2 min
- 10:41 into the second periodMichel Goulet · high sticking2 min
- 13:14 into the second periodKevin Dineen · interference2 min
- 3:01 into the third periodRandy Ladouceur · roughing2 min
- 3:01 into the third periodMike Eagles · roughing2 min
- 5:53 into the third periodDave Babych · holding2 min
- 8:22 into the third periodRobert Picard · cross checking2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 11Kevin DineenR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 7Stew GavinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20John AndersonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 28Paul LawlessL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Pat HughesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Dana MurzynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Randy LadouceurD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 34 | 5 | .853 |
| 31Steve WeeksG | 0 | 0 | – |
Quebec Nordiques
| 15Jason LafreniereC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 7Lane LambertR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Peter StastnyC | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 12Risto SiltanenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 21Randy MollerD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 24Robert PicardD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 11Mike EaglesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Michel GouletL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Basil McraeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Alain CoteL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Anton StastnyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Paul GillisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Normand RochefortD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Jeff BrownD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Steven FinnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 34Gord DonnellyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Clint MalarchukG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Mario GosselinG | W | 35 | 4 | .886 |