New Jersey Devils vs Quebec Nordiques
Regular season · Saturday, December 5, 1987 · Le Colisée
Game summary
The Quebec Nordiques beat the New Jersey Devils 3–2 on Saturday, December 5, 1987 at Le Colisée. The Devils outshot the Nordiques 22–20.
Goals came from Alain Cote, Craig Wolanin, Anton Stastny, Jeff Brown and Kirk Muller.
Mario Gosselin made 20 saves on 22 shots for the win; Bob Sauve stopped 17 of 20.
Scoring
1st period
Alain Cote (2)Mike Eagles (5), Paul Gillis (3)0–103:23 QUE
Craig Wolanin (2)Unassisted1–114:39 NJD ·
2nd period
Anton Stastny (10)Normand Rochefort (2), Jeff Brown (14)1–204:32 QUE ·
3rd period
Jeff Brown (8)Anton Stastny (13), Normand Rochefort (3)1–301:02 QUE · 
Kirk Muller (7)Craig Wolanin (9), Jack O'Callahan (5)2–316:53 NJD
Team stats
NJDQUE
2220
0%0%
0/52/6
2624
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:23 into the first period
Normand Rochefort · interference2 min - 7:19 into the first period
Ken Daneyko · fighting5 min - 7:19 into the first periodGord Donnelly · fighting5 min
- 9:56 into the first periodDoug Brown · holding2 min
- 14:21 into the first periodPerry Anderson · roughing2 min
- 19:28 into the first periodGaetan Duchesne · hooking2 min
- 1:05 into the second periodJoe Cirella · interference2 min
- 3:20 into the second periodRandy Velischek · tripping2 min
- 13:12 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 19:50 into the second periodJoe Cirella · cross checking2 min
- 8:54 into the third periodGord Donnelly · charging2 min
- 9:34 into the third periodPat Verbeek · hooking2 min
- 11:43 into the third periodMichel Goulet · high sticking2 min
- 19:47 into the third periodJim Korn · roughing2 min
- 19:47 into the third periodJohn MacLean · high sticking2 min
- 19:47 into the third periodJohn MacLean · fighting5 min
- 19:47 into the third periodSteven Finn · fighting5 min
- 19:47 into the third periodAlan Haworth · roughing2 min
- 19:47 into the third periodRobert Picard · high sticking2 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 6Craig WolaninD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 9Kirk MullerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 7Jack O'CallahanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 10Aaron BrotenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Brendan ShanahanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 15John MacLeanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 16Pat VerbeekR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Patrik SundstromC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 19Claude LoiselleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 22Doug SullimanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 24Doug BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 25Perry AndersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Joe CirellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 14Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Bruce DriverD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Randy VelischekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28Bob SauveG | L | 20 | 3 | .850 |
| 30Alain ChevrierG | 0 | 0 | – |
Quebec Nordiques
| 20Anton StastnyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Normand RochefortD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 22Jeff BrownD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 11Mike EaglesL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Alain CoteL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 23Paul GillisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 7Lane LambertR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Gaetan DuchesneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15Alan HaworthC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Michel GouletL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 18Mike HoughL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Jeff JacksonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Peter StastnyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 4Terry CarknerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Randy MollerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Robert PicardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Steven FinnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 34Gord DonnellyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mario BrunettaG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Mario GosselinG | W | 22 | 2 | .909 |