New York Islanders vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Sunday, January 17, 1988 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the New York Islanders 5–2 on Sunday, January 17, 1988 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Islanders outshot the Sabres 37–24.
Scott Arniel scored twice. Dave Andreychuk, Mike Donnelly, Brent Sutter, Christian Ruuttu and Dale Henry also scored.
Tom Barrasso made 35 saves on 37 shots for the win; Billy Smith stopped 19 of 24.
Scoring
2nd period
Dave Andreychuk (18)Calle Johansson (23), Ray Sheppard (15)0–109:29 BUF · 
Mike Donnelly (3)Kevin Maguire (5), Ken Priestlay (3)0–215:21 BUF
Brent Sutter (15)Tomas Jonsson (28)1–215:56 NYI
3rd period
Christian Ruuttu (17)Mikael Andersson (7), Phil Housley (16)1–301:31 BUF
Scott Arniel (7)Lindy Ruff (9), Ray Sheppard (16)1–405:49 BUF
Dale Henry (1)Brent Sutter (19)2–414:33 NYI- Scott Arniel (8)Mike Donnelly (7)2–517:05 BUF
Team stats
NYIBUF
3724
0%0%
0/51/2
1016
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:24 into the first period
Kevin Maguire · hooking2 min - 15:50 into the first periodSteve Dykstra · cross checking2 min
- 15:50 into the first periodSteve Dykstra · roughing2 min
- 15:50 into the first period
Brent Sutter · roughing2 min - 2:05 into the second periodDale Henry · holding2 min
- 3:25 into the second periodPierre Turgeon · slashing2 min
- 3:25 into the second periodBob Bassen · slashing2 min
- 8:55 into the second periodKen Morrow · interference2 min
- 2:35 into the third periodUwe Krupp · elbowing2 min
- 12:32 into the third periodKen Priestlay · slashing2 min
- 15:52 into the third periodJan Ludvig · high sticking2 min
- 15:52 into the third periodDenis Potvin · high sticking2 min
- 19:35 into the third periodSteve Dykstra · interference2 min
Season series
New York Islanders
| 21Brent SutterC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 20Dale HenryL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 3Tomas JonssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 7Greg GilbertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 10Alan KerrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 11Randy WoodR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 6 | – |
| 24Mikko MakelaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 26Patrick FlatleyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Bob BassenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 32Brad LauerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 35Richard KrommL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Gord DineenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Gerald DiduckD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 5Denis PotvinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 6Ken MorrowD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 29Ken LeiterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 37Jeff FinleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Kelly HrudeyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Billy SmithG | L | 24 | 5 | .792 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 9Scott ArnielL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 16Mike DonnellyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 23Ray SheppardR | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Ken PriestlayC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 14Mikael AnderssonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 19Kevin MaguireR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 21Christian RuuttuC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 3Calle JohanssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 4Steve DykstraL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 15Doug SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 36Jan LudvigR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 77Pierre TurgeonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 40Uwe KruppD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jacques CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | W | 37 | 2 | .946 |