Montréal Canadiens vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Friday, October 23, 1987 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–3 on Friday, October 23, 1987 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Canadiens 45–17.
Shayne Corson scored twice, Ray Sheppard scored twice and Phil Housley scored twice. Christian Ruuttu and Chris Chelios also scored.
Jacques Cloutier made 14 saves on 17 shots for the win; Patrick Roy stopped 40 of 45.
Scoring
1st period
Christian Ruuttu (4)Pierre Turgeon (3)0–111:17 BUF
Shayne Corson (2)Chris Chelios (4), Stephane Richer (5)1–113:41 MTL
2nd period
Chris Chelios (4)Petr Svoboda (5), Bobby Smith (5)2–100:28 MTL · 
Ray Sheppard (2)Pierre Turgeon (4)2–202:31 BUF
Phil Housley (5)Scott Arniel (4), Doug Smith (6)2–303:33 BUF- Shayne Corson (3)Chris Chelios (5), Bobby Smith (6)3–317:59 MTL ·
3rd period
- Ray Sheppard (3)Christian Ruuttu (5), Pierre Turgeon (5)3–402:52 BUF
- Phil Housley (6)Unassisted3–509:32 BUF
Team stats
MTLBUF
1745
0%0%
2/50/6
1412
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:46 into the first period
Phil Housley · hooking2 min - 7:37 into the first periodEd Hospodar · roughing2 min
- 16:09 into the first period
Mike Mcphee · holding2 min - 18:49 into the first periodAdam Creighton · elbowing2 min
- 6:24 into the second periodSteve Dykstra · high sticking2 min
- 8:03 into the second periodChris Chelios · high sticking double minor4 min
- 14:26 into the second periodClaude Lemieux · boarding2 min
- 17:05 into the second periodJoe Reekie · high sticking2 min
- 5:15 into the third periodPetr Svoboda · holding2 min
- 9:58 into the third periodSteve Dykstra · roughing2 min
- 9:58 into the third periodClaude Lemieux · roughing2 min
- 9:58 into the third periodClaude Lemieux · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 24Chris CheliosD | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 27Shayne CorsonL | 2 | 0 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Ryan WalterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 20Kjell DahlinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Mats NaslundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 31John KordicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 32Claude LemieuxR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 35Mike McpheeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 39Brian SkrudlandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Craig LudwigD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Larry TraderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 38Mike LalorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brian HaywardG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | L | 45 | 5 | .889 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 77Pierre TurgeonC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 21Christian RuuttuC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +4 | 3 | – |
| 23Ray SheppardR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 9Scott ArnielL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 15Doug SmithC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 4Steve DykstraL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 7John TuckerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 38Adam CreightonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 65Mark NapierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 90Clark GilliesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 24Ed HospodarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 27Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 40Uwe KruppD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jacques CloutierG | W | 17 | 3 | .824 |
| 31Daren PuppaG | 0 | 0 | – |