Buffalo Sabres vs Hartford Whalers
Regular season · Saturday, February 27, 1988 · Hartford Civic Center
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Hartford Whalers 4–3 on Saturday, February 27, 1988 at Hartford Civic Center. The Whalers outshot the Sabres 27–25.
Goals came from Carey Wilson, Dave Tippett, Ken Priestlay, Ray Sheppard, Mike Donnelly, Mikael Andersson and Kevin Dineen.
Tom Barrasso made 24 saves on 27 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 21 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Carey Wilson (18)Ron Francis (40), Dave Babych (32)0–104:07 HFD · 
Dave Tippett (11)Sylvain Cote (12), Ulf Samuelsson (26)0–209:27 HFD · 
Ken Priestlay (3)Mikael Andersson (12)1–219:10 BUF ·
2nd period
Ray Sheppard (28)Pierre Turgeon (22), Dave Andreychuk (31)2–205:25 BUF
3rd period
Mike Donnelly (5)Phil Housley (30), Benoit Hogue (1)3–217:02 BUF
Mikael Andersson (3)Scott Arniel (19)4–218:51 BUF · 
Kevin Dineen (22)Ulf Samuelsson (27), Mike Liut (1)4–319:31 HFD
Team stats
BUFHFD
2527
0%0%
0/51/6
1818
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:08 into the first period
Bob Halkidis · holding2 min - 3:58 into the first periodUwe Krupp · cross checking2 min
- 5:18 into the first period
Ray Ferraro · interference2 min - 8:23 into the first periodMike Vellucci · interference2 min
- 14:26 into the first periodMike Vellucci · holding2 min
- 18:06 into the first periodBob Halkidis · holding2 min
- 19:49 into the first periodLindy Ruff · cross checking2 min
- 7:29 into the second periodStew Gavin · interference2 min
- 10:21 into the second periodUwe Krupp · roughing2 min
- 10:21 into the second periodKevin Dineen · roughing2 min
- 10:21 into the second periodTorrie Robertson · roughing2 min
- 11:08 into the second periodPhil Housley · high sticking2 min
- 11:08 into the second periodPaul Macdermid · charging2 min
- 14:02 into the second periodEd Hospodar · elbowing2 min
- 16:59 into the second periodJoel Quenneville · tripping2 min
- 7:11 into the third periodBob Halkidis · roughing2 min
- 7:11 into the third periodRay Ferraro · roughing2 min
- 13:21 into the third periodPierre Turgeon · hooking2 min
Season series
Buffalo Sabres
| 14Mikael AnderssonR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 9Scott ArnielL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 12Ken PriestlayC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Mike DonnellyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 23Ray SheppardR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 33Benoit HogueL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 77Pierre TurgeonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 15Doug SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Mike HartmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 65Mark NapierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 3Calle JohanssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 18Bob HalkidisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 24Ed HospodarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 40Uwe KruppD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Jacques CloutierG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | W | 27 | 3 | .889 |
Hartford Whalers
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Kevin DineenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 33Carey WilsonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 7Stew GavinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20John AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Lindsay CarsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 32Torrie RobertsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 34Mike VellucciD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 38Jim CulhaneD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 24 | 3 | .875 |
| 31Steve WeeksG | 0 | 0 | – |