Toronto Maple Leafs vs Chicago Blackhawks
Regular season · Friday, January 8, 1988 · Chicago Stadium
Game summary
The Chicago Blackhawks beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 7–3 on Friday, January 8, 1988 at Chicago Stadium. The Blackhawks outshot the Maple Leafs 40–39.
Steve Thomas scored a hat trick and Rick Vaive scored twice. Dirk Graham, Denis Savard, Sean Mckenna, Gary Leeman and Al Secord also scored.
Darren Pang made 36 saves on 39 shots for the win; Allan Bester stopped 30 of 34.
Scoring
1st period
Dirk Graham (8)Bob Mcgill (5), Glen Cochrane (5)0–101:18 CHI
Steve Thomas (2)Steve Larmer (25), Bob Murray (6)0–205:32 CHI · 
Denis Savard (24)Rick Vaive (11), Darren Pang (5)0–306:47 CHI
Sean Mckenna (4)Vincent Damphousse (16), Peter Ihnacak (15)1–317:14 TOR
Rick Vaive (28)Denis Savard (52), Steve Larmer (26)1–417:36 CHI ·
2nd period
Gary Leeman (16)Al Iafrate (17), Vincent Damphousse (17)2–400:13 TOR · 
Al Secord (11)Mark Osborne (15), Peter Ihnacak (16)3–404:23 TOR
3rd period
- Rick Vaive (29)Dan Vincelette (8), Denis Savard (53)3–500:14 CHI
- Steve Thomas (3)Mike Stapleton (8)3–612:23 CHI
- Steve Thomas (4)Steve Larmer (27), Gary Nylund (8)3–714:22 CHI
Team stats
TORCHI
3940
0%0%
1/102/9
6262
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:59 into the first period
Everett Sanipass · slashing2 min - 0:59 into the first period
Dan Daoust · slashing2 min - 2:20 into the first periodBorje Salming · holding2 min
- 3:22 into the first periodDan Vincelette · roughing2 min
- 3:22 into the first periodGary Leeman · roughing2 min
- 4:12 into the first periodDirk Graham · roughing2 min
- 4:12 into the first periodDale Degray · cross checking2 min
- 4:53 into the first periodLuke Richardson · high sticking2 min
- 8:36 into the first periodDan Vincelette · holding2 min
- 10:14 into the first periodWendel Clark · tripping2 min
- 11:58 into the first periodAllan Bester · delaying game2 min
- 14:15 into the first periodGary Nylund · high sticking2 min
- 17:25 into the first periodAl Secord · holding2 min
- 18:24 into the first periodBob Mcgill · roughing2 min
- 18:24 into the first periodBob Mcgill · fighting5 min
- 18:24 into the first periodWendel Clark · roughing2 min
- 18:24 into the first periodWendel Clark · fighting5 min
- 19:00 into the first periodGary Nylund · high sticking double minor4 min
- 5:10 into the second periodDan Vincelette · fighting5 min
- 5:10 into the second periodMark Osborne · fighting5 min
- 5:20 into the second periodGary Nylund · fighting5 min
- 5:20 into the second periodGary Nylund · misconduct10 min
- 5:20 into the second periodChris Mcrae · fighting5 min
- 5:20 into the second periodChris Mcrae · misconduct10 min
- 6:31 into the second periodBehn Wilson · tripping2 min
- 6:54 into the second periodAl Iafrate · holding2 min
- 8:13 into the second periodDave Manson · holding2 min
- 9:25 into the second periodBob Mcgill · slashing2 min
- 15:00 into the second periodDave Manson · roughing2 min
- 15:00 into the second periodMark Osborne · roughing2 min
- 15:10 into the second periodBorje Salming · tripping2 min
- 15:41 into the second periodAl Iafrate · cross checking2 min
- 16:48 into the second periodBehn Wilson · hooking2 min
- 4:05 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 7:02 into the third periodTom Fergus · hooking2 min
- 7:49 into the third periodDan Vincelette · slashing2 min
- 8:08 into the third periodDave Manson · tripping2 min
- 13:49 into the third periodBob Mcgill · roughing2 min
- 13:49 into the third periodBob Mcgill · fighting5 min
- 13:49 into the third periodChris Mcrae · roughing2 min
- 13:49 into the third periodChris Mcrae · fighting5 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 10Vincent DamphousseC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 18Peter IhnacakC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Sean MckennaR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 11Gary LeemanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 12Mark OsborneL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 20Al SecordL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 33Al IafrateD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 9Russ CourtnallR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 16Eddie OlczykR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Wendel ClarkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 19Tom FergusC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 24Dan DaoustC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 32Chris McraeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Luke RichardsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 3Dale DegrayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 4Rick LanzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Allan BesterG | L | 34 | 4 | .882 |
| 31Ken WreggetG | 6 | 3 | .500 |
Chicago Blackhawks
| 18Denis SavardC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 27Rick VaiveR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 28Steve LarmerR | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 32Steve ThomasR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 11Dan VinceletteL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 12Mike StapletonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 33Dirk GrahamR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 5Glen CochraneD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Bob MurrayD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 22Gary NylundD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 25Bob McgillD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 7Everett SanipassL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 10Brian NoonanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Troy MurrayC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 29Steve LudzikC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 2Marc BergevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Dave MansonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 23Behn WilsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Bob MasonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 40Darren PangG | W | 39 | 3 | .923 |