Hartford Whalers vs New Jersey Devils
Regular season · Friday, October 28, 1988 · Brendan Byrne Arena
Game summary
The New Jersey Devils beat the Hartford Whalers 5–3 on Friday, October 28, 1988 at Brendan Byrne Arena. The Devils outshot the Whalers 28–24.
Goals came from Tom Kurvers, Doug Brown, Craig Wolanin, Sylvain Turgeon, Ray Ferraro, Mark Johnson, Kevin Dineen and Brendan Shanahan.
Bob Sauve made 21 saves on 24 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 23 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Tom Kurvers (2)Kirk Muller (2), Pat Verbeek (3)0–103:49 NJD
Doug Brown (2)Randy Velischek (4), Claude Loiselle (1)0–204:41 NJD
2nd period
Craig Wolanin (1)Unassisted0–302:24 NJD
Sylvain Turgeon (4)Ray Ferraro (5), Carey Wilson (7)1–308:41 HFD · 
Ray Ferraro (5)Scott Young (6)2–311:49 HFD
Mark Johnson (4)Patrik Sundstrom (4), Bruce Driver (6)2–418:16 NJD
Kevin Dineen (5)John Anderson (2), Sylvain Cote (2)3–419:28 HFD
3rd period
Brendan Shanahan (2)Ken Daneyko (2)3–519:42 NJD ·
Team stats
HFDNJD
2428
0%0%
1/60/3
1016
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:58 into the first period
Paul Macdermid · roughing2 min - 6:58 into the first period
David Maley · roughing2 min - 7:48 into the first periodJoe Cirella · hooking2 min
- 8:58 into the first periodDavid Maley · roughing2 min
- 11:31 into the first periodRon Francis · tripping2 min
- 13:20 into the first periodBruce Driver · cross checking2 min
- 17:42 into the first periodJohn MacLean · tripping2 min
- 19:24 into the first periodSylvain Turgeon · hooking2 min
- 4:13 into the second periodBruce Driver · holding2 min
- 5:17 into the second periodDave Babych · holding2 min
- 8:00 into the second periodRandy Velischek · hooking2 min
- 14:21 into the third periodGrant Jennings · roughing2 min
- 14:21 into the third periodCraig Wolanin · roughing2 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 26Ray FerraroC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 11Kevin DineenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 20John AndersonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 27Scott YoungR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 33Carey WilsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 32Torrie RobertsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Grant JenningsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Randy LadouceurD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 27 | 4 | .852 |
| 30Peter SidorkiewiczG | 0 | 0 | – |
New Jersey Devils
| 9Kirk MullerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Brendan ShanahanL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 12Mark JohnsonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 16Pat VerbeekR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Patrik SundstromC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 19Claude LoiselleC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Doug BrownR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 5Tom KurversD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 6Craig WolaninD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 23Bruce DriverD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 27Randy VelischekD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8David MaleyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 10Aaron BrotenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 15John MacLeanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25Perry AndersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 32Pat ConacherL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Joe CirellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sean BurkeG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 28Bob SauveG | W | 24 | 3 | .875 |