Hartford Whalers vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Wednesday, October 12, 1988 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The Hartford Whalers beat the New York Rangers 4–3 on Wednesday, October 12, 1988 at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers outshot the Whalers 40–30.
Goals came from Ulf Dahlen, Sylvain Turgeon, Ray Ferraro, Brian Leetch, Carey Wilson, Jody Hull and Don Maloney.
Mike Liut made 37 saves on 40 shots for the win; Bob Froese stopped 26 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Ulf Dahlen (4)Norm MacIver (1), Marcel Dionne (1)0–102:25 NYR
Sylvain Turgeon (2)Paul Macdermid (1), Carey Wilson (3)1–106:00 HFD
Ray Ferraro (2)Jody Hull (1), Joel Quenneville (1)2–107:41 HFD
Brian Leetch (1)Marcel Dionne (2), Bob Froese (1)2–215:09 NYR
2nd period
Carey Wilson (1)Sylvain Turgeon (2)3–202:58 HFD · 
Jody Hull (1)Ray Ferraro (1), Torrie Robertson (1)4–207:14 HFD
3rd period
Don Maloney (1)Lucien DeBlois (1), Brian Leetch (2)4–301:37 NYR
Team stats
HFDNYR
3040
0%0%
1/50/5
1212
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:52 into the first period
Dean Evason · holding2 min - 8:52 into the first period
Brian Lawton · interference2 min - 19:49 into the first periodBrent Peterson · holding2 min
- 2:24 into the second periodNormand Rochefort · hooking2 min
- 3:48 into the second periodJohn Anderson · holding2 min
- 11:18 into the second periodChris Nilan · elbowing2 min
- 13:51 into the second periodNormand Rochefort · holding2 min
- 14:43 into the second periodKevin Dineen · roughing2 min
- 18:56 into the second periodChris Nilan · slashing2 min
- 15:01 into the third periodUlf Samuelsson · roughing2 min
- 15:01 into the third periodChris Nilan · roughing2 min
- 19:07 into the third periodUlf Samuelsson · elbowing2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 8Jody HullR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 33Carey WilsonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 32Torrie RobertsonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 11Kevin DineenR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 20John AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 29Randy LadouceurD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 40Allan TuerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | W | 40 | 3 | .925 |
| 30Peter SidorkiewiczG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Rangers
| 16Marcel DionneC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 9Ulf DahlenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 12Don MaloneyL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 23Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 37Norm MacIverD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 8Darren TurcotteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 10Guy LafleurR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Brian LawtonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 20Jan ErixonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 28Tomas SandstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 39Tony GranatoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Normand RochefortD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 21David ShawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 24Michel PetitD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33Bob FroeseG | L | 30 | 4 | .867 |
| 34John VanbiesbrouckG | 0 | 0 | – |