Philadelphia Flyers vs Calgary Flames
Regular season · Thursday, December 31, 1987 · Olympic Saddledome
Game summary
The Calgary Flames beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5–4 on Thursday, December 31, 1987 at Olympic Saddledome. The Flyers outshot the Flames 35–25.
Pelle Eklund scored twice and Gary Suter scored twice. Rick Tocchet, Joe Nieuwendyk, Joe Mullen, Mike Bullard and Scott Mellanby also scored.
Mike Vernon made 31 saves on 35 shots for the win; Mark Laforest stopped 20 of 25.
Scoring
1st period
Rick Tocchet (10)Murray Craven (22), Peter Zezel (8)1–002:11 PHI · 
Pelle Eklund (5)Dave Poulin (20), Mark Howe (20)2–007:41 PHI
Joe Nieuwendyk (27)Hakan Loob (22), Al MacInnis (24)2–114:30 CGY · 
Joe Mullen (16)Joel Otto (14), Jim Peplinski (17)2–215:11 CGY
2nd period
Gary Suter (5)Brad McCrimmon (13)2–304:31 CGY
Mike Bullard (23)Joe Nieuwendyk (14), Gary Suter (29)2–410:57 CGY ·
3rd period
Scott Mellanby (14)Dave Brown (1), Murray Craven (23)3–405:39 PHI- Pelle Eklund (6)Dave Poulin (21), Doug Crossman (15)4–407:21 PHI ·
- Gary Suter (6)Hakan Loob (23), Joe Nieuwendyk (15)4–519:52 CGY ·
Team stats
PHICGY
3525
0%0%
2/73/8
2725
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:21 into the first period
Gary Suter · interference2 min - 9:52 into the first periodBrian Glynn · holding2 min
- 11:34 into the first period
Scott Mellanby · high sticking double minor4 min - 0:54 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 7:30 into the second periodJim Peplinski · roughing2 min
- 10:24 into the second periodKjell Samuelsson · holding2 min
- 11:51 into the second periodSteve Bozek · hooking2 min
- 16:26 into the second periodGary Roberts · high sticking2 min
- 16:26 into the second periodGary Roberts · slashing2 min
- 16:26 into the second periodMark Laforest · high sticking2 min
- 16:26 into the second periodMark Laforest · roughing2 min
- 17:42 into the second periodBrad McCrimmon · interference2 min
- 17:42 into the second periodScott Mellanby · slashing2 min
- 17:56 into the second periodAl MacInnis · hooking2 min
- 0:27 into the third periodJim Peplinski · fighting5 min
- 0:27 into the third periodRick Tocchet · instigator2 min
- 0:27 into the third periodRick Tocchet · fighting5 min
- 2:41 into the third periodMark Howe · hooking2 min
- 7:00 into the third periodGary Suter · cross checking2 min
- 7:46 into the third periodMagnus Roupe · holding2 min
- 17:23 into the third periodTim Hunter · interference2 min
- 19:30 into the third periodDave Poulin · holding2 min
Season series
Philadelphia Flyers
| 9Pelle EklundC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Dave PoulinC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 32Murray CravenL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 19Scott MellanbyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 21Dave BrownR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Rick TocchetR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 25Peter ZezelC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 2Mark HoweD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Doug CrossmanD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 10Magnus RoupeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 14Ron SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 18Lindsay CarsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Ilkka SinisaloR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Derrick SmithL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 5Kerry HuffmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 8Brad MarshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Kjell SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 40Greg SmythD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Ron HextallG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Mark LaforestG | L | 25 | 5 | .800 |
Calgary Flames
| 25Joe NieuwendykC | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Gary SuterD | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 12Hakan LoobR | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 7Joe MullenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 22Mike BullardC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Jim PeplinskiL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 29Joel OttoC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 2Al MacInnisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 4Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 10Gary RobertsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Colin PattersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Brett HullR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 19Tim HunterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Steve BozekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 27John TonelliL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Kevan GuyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Ric NattressD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 32Brian GlynnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mike VernonG | W | 35 | 4 | .886 |
| 36Doug DadswellG | 0 | 0 | – |