Hartford Whalers vs Montréal Canadiens
Regular season · Wednesday, October 19, 1988 · Montreal Forum
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Hartford Whalers 5–4 on Wednesday, October 19, 1988 at Montreal Forum. The Canadiens outshot the Whalers 40–23.
Goals came from Bobby Smith, Ron Francis, Stephane Richer, Ryan Walter, Scott Young, Dave Tippett, Chris Chelios, Ray Ferraro and Mike Lalor.
Patrick Roy made 19 saves on 23 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 35 of 40.
Scoring
1st period
Bobby Smith (5)Larry Robinson (4)0–105:55 MTL
Ron Francis (4)Scott Young (4)1–110:01 HFD
Stephane Richer (3)Petr Svoboda (3), Patrick Roy (1)1–213:45 MTL ·
2nd period
Ryan Walter (2)Guy Carbonneau (2)1–304:32 MTL
Scott Young (1)Ray Ferraro (2), Sylvain Turgeon (4)2–309:05 HFD
Dave Tippett (1)Ray Ferraro (3), Grant Jennings (1)3–315:50 HFD
3rd period
Chris Chelios (1)Shayne Corson (1), Petr Svoboda (4)3–403:50 MTL · 
Ray Ferraro (4)Dave Tippett (1)4–406:15 HFD
Mike Lalor (1)Claude Lemieux (3), Mike Mcphee (1)4–518:20 MTL
Team stats
HFDMTL
2340
0%0%
0/52/7
4036
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:56 into the first period
Grant Jennings · roughing2 min - 2:56 into the first periodGrant Jennings · fighting5 min
- 2:56 into the first period
John Kordic · high sticking2 min - 2:56 into the first periodJohn Kordic · instigator2 min
- 2:56 into the first periodJohn Kordic · fighting5 min
- 7:00 into the first periodUlf Samuelsson · holding2 min
- 10:42 into the first periodDave Babych · interference2 min
- 12:01 into the first periodUlf Samuelsson · roughing2 min
- 18:25 into the first periodJoel Quenneville · tripping2 min
- 2:22 into the second periodCraig Ludwig · high sticking2 min
- 7:28 into the second periodTorrie Robertson · slashing2 min
- 8:37 into the second periodChris Chelios · hooking2 min
- 17:16 into the second periodPetr Svoboda · holding2 min
- 3:35 into the third periodDave Tippett · high sticking2 min
- 6:49 into the third periodRandy Ladouceur · fighting5 min
- 6:49 into the third periodRandy Ladouceur · misconduct10 min
- 6:49 into the third periodBrent Peterson · roughing2 min
- 6:49 into the third periodChris Chelios · fighting5 min
- 6:49 into the third periodShayne Corson · roughing2 min
- 6:49 into the third periodShayne Corson · misconduct10 min
- 7:46 into the third periodJohn Kordic · slashing2 min
- 11:37 into the third periodSylvain Turgeon · roughing2 min
- 11:37 into the third periodBrian Skrudland · roughing2 min
- 14:18 into the third periodGrant Jennings · holding2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 26Ray FerraroC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 27Scott YoungR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Grant JenningsD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 8Jody HullR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 20John AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 22Ed KastelicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 32Torrie RobertsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 33Carey WilsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 29Randy LadouceurD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 40 | 5 | .875 |
| 30Peter SidorkiewiczG | 0 | 0 | – |
Montréal Canadiens
| 25Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 11Ryan WalterC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Shayne CorsonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 32Claude LemieuxR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 35Mike McpheeL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −4 | 6 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 24Chris CheliosD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 38Mike LalorD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Mike KeaneR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 22Jose CharbonneauR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 26Mats NaslundL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 31John KordicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 39Brian SkrudlandC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Craig LudwigD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brian HaywardG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 23 | 4 | .826 |