Philadelphia Flyers vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Tuesday, March 29, 1988 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The New York Islanders beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5–3 on Tuesday, March 29, 1988 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Islanders outshot the Flyers 33–28.
Goals came from Ron Sutter, Brent Sutter, Greg Gilbert, Ilkka Sinisalo, Derrick Smith, Dale Henry, Jeff Norton and Pat LaFontaine.
Billy Smith made 25 saves on 28 shots for the win; Mark Laforest stopped 28 of 33.
Scoring
1st period
Ron Sutter (8)Scott Mellanby (25)1–005:41 PHI
Brent Sutter (28)Denis Potvin (32), Tomas Jonsson (40)1–110:31 NYI · 
Greg Gilbert (16)Mikko Makela (36), Bryan Trottier (49)1–217:51 NYI
2nd period
Ilkka Sinisalo (23)Scott Mellanby (26), Mark Howe (40)2–202:25 PHI
Derrick Smith (16)Ron Sutter (23), Dave Brown (5)3–203:10 PHI
3rd period
Dale Henry (5)Randy Wood (16), Brent Sutter (31)3–301:24 NYI
Jeff Norton (1)Mikko Makela (37), Pat LaFontaine (44)3–410:44 NYI · 
Pat LaFontaine (46)Gerald Diduck (11)3–514:31 NYI
Team stats
PHINYI
2833
0%0%
0/52/6
1210
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:57 into the first period
Ron Sutter · slashing2 min - 9:34 into the first periodDon Nachbaur · cross checking2 min
- 11:29 into the first periodTim Kerr · slashing2 min
- 12:46 into the first period
Tomas Jonsson · hooking2 min - 7:46 into the second periodMark Laforest · delaying game2 min
- 10:59 into the second periodBob Bassen · holding2 min
- 16:04 into the second periodTomas Jonsson · holding2 min
- 2:24 into the third periodAlan Kerr · cross checking2 min
- 8:23 into the third periodGreg Smyth · holding2 min
- 9:01 into the third periodKjell Samuelsson · holding2 min
- 11:04 into the third periodSteve Konroyd · hooking2 min
Season series
Philadelphia Flyers
| 14Ron SutterC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 19Scott MellanbyR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 21Dave BrownR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 23Ilkka SinisaloR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Derrick SmithL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 2Mark HoweD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 9Pelle EklundC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 12Tim KerrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 20Dave PoulinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 26Brian ProppL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 32Murray CravenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 36Al HillL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 42Don NachbaurC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Doug CrossmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Kerry HuffmanD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 6Greg SmythD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Brad MarshD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Kjell SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Ron HextallG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Mark LaforestG | L | 33 | 5 | .849 |
New York Islanders
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 21Brent SutterC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 24Mikko MakelaR | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 7Greg GilbertL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Randy WoodR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 19Bryan TrottierC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 20Dale HenryL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 3Tomas JonssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 4Gerald DiduckD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Denis PotvinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 8Jeff NortonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Alan KerrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 27Derek KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 28Bob BassenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 35Richard KrommL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 38Mick VukotaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 6Ken MorrowD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 33Steve KonroydD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Kelly HrudeyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Billy SmithG | W | 28 | 3 | .893 |