Detroit Red Wings vs St. Louis Blues
Regular season · Wednesday, December 30, 1987 · St. Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the St. Louis Blues 3–2 on Wednesday, December 30, 1987 at St. Louis Arena. The Blues outshot the Red Wings 31–28.
Goals came from Petr Klima, Bernie Federko, Jeff Sharples, Tony McKegney and Doug Halward.
Greg Stefan made 29 saves on 31 shots for the win; Greg Millen stopped 25 of 28.
Scoring
1st period
Petr Klima (21)Shawn Burr (8)1–006:11 DET
Bernie Federko (9)Brian Benning (12), Rob Ramage (23)1–112:16 STL ·
2nd period
Jeff Sharples (5)Steve Yzerman (30), Doug Halward (16)2–103:07 DET · 
Tony McKegney (16)Perry Turnbull (3), Brian Benning (13)2–204:10 STL
Doug Halward (2)Gerard Gallant (21), Jeff Sharples (11)3–219:04 DET ·
Team stats
DETSTL
2831
0%0%
2/51/5
1718
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:28 into the first period
Lee Norwood · interference2 min - 2:52 into the first period
Brian Sutter · holding2 min - 6:27 into the first periodTony McKegney · cross checking2 min
- 9:26 into the first periodJoey Kocur · roughing2 min
- 9:26 into the first periodRobert Nordmark · cross checking2 min
- 12:10 into the first periodShawn Burr · tripping2 min
- 18:06 into the first periodBob Probert · hooking2 min
- 1:39 into the second periodBernie Federko · slashing2 min
- 6:02 into the second periodDoug Halward · tripping2 min
- 11:17 into the second periodTim Higgins · slashing2 min
- 18:36 into the second periodTodd Ewen · high sticking5 min
- 11:56 into the third periodHarold Snepsts · fighting5 min
- 11:56 into the third periodTony McKegney · fighting5 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 7Doug HalwardD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 34Jeff SharplesD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 11Shawn BurrL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 17Gerard GallantL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 19Steve YzermanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 85Petr KlimaR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 14Brent AshtonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 16John ChabotC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Tim HigginsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 22Dave BarrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 24Bob ProbertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Joey KocurR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 37Kris KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 39Dale KrentzL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Mike O'connellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Darren VeitchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 23Lee NorwoodD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 27Harold SnepstsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glen HanlonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Greg StefanG | W | 31 | 2 | .935 |
St. Louis Blues
| 2Brian BenningD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Tony McKegneyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 7 | – |
| 19Perry TurnbullC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 9Doug GilmourC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Brian SutterL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Gino CavalliniL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 18Tony HrkacC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Todd EwenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 22Rick MeagherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Herb RaglanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 32Doug EvansL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Charlie BourgeoisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 6Tim BothwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Paul CavalliniD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Gaston GingrasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Robert NordmarkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Greg MillenG | L | 28 | 3 | .893 |
| 30Rick WamsleyG | 0 | 0 | – |