St. Louis Blues vs New Jersey Devils
Regular season · Tuesday, December 13, 1988 · Brendan Byrne Arena
Game summary
The New Jersey Devils beat the St. Louis Blues 4–3 on Tuesday, December 13, 1988 at Brendan Byrne Arena. The Blues outshot the Devils 23–22.
Goals came from Kirk Muller, Cliff Ronning, David Maley, Herb Raglan, Brett Hull, Jim Korn and Aaron Broten.
Sean Burke made 20 saves on 23 shots for the win; Vincent Riendeau stopped 18 of 22.
Scoring
1st period
Kirk Muller (10)David Maley (6), Tom Kurvers (9)0–100:08 NJD
Cliff Ronning (6)Tony Hrkac (14)1–107:27 STL · 
David Maley (3)Pat Verbeek (7), Tom Kurvers (10)1–208:01 NJD
2nd period
Herb Raglan (1)Bernie Federko (16), Tom Tilley (11)2–201:58 STL
Brett Hull (13)Tony Hrkac (15), Peter Zezel (19)3–207:17 STL · 
Jim Korn (6)Perry Anderson (2), Randy Velischek (9)3–312:13 NJD
Aaron Broten (5)Tom Kurvers (11), Jim Korn (5)3–414:15 NJD ·
Team stats
STLNJD
2322
0%0%
2/91/3
2331
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:42 into the first period
Dave Richter · holding2 min - 4:18 into the first period
Patrik Sundstrom · hooking2 min - 6:48 into the first periodSean Burke · delaying game2 min
- 14:08 into the first periodTom Kurvers · holding2 min
- 14:14 into the first periodTony McKegney · holding2 min
- 15:30 into the first periodJoe Cirella · high sticking2 min
- 18:52 into the first periodCraig Coxe · hooking2 min
- 19:13 into the first periodPatrik Sundstrom · tripping2 min
- 19:24 into the first periodPerry Anderson · high sticking2 min
- 19:24 into the first periodPerry Anderson · slashing2 min
- 19:24 into the first periodPaul Cavallini · high sticking2 min
- 19:24 into the first periodTony McKegney · slashing2 min
- 6:23 into the second periodKen Daneyko · holding2 min
- 8:23 into the second periodKen Daneyko · roughing2 min
- 8:23 into the second periodKen Daneyko · fighting5 min
- 8:23 into the second periodPaul Cavallini · instigator2 min
- 8:23 into the second periodPaul Cavallini · fighting5 min
- 12:56 into the second periodDavid Maley · roughing2 min
- 12:56 into the second periodBrian Benning · holding2 min
- 12:56 into the second periodGino Cavallini · roughing2 min
- 18:11 into the second periodPerry Anderson · slashing2 min
- 0:53 into the third periodJoe Cirella · interference2 min
- 9:26 into the third periodClaude Loiselle · high sticking2 min
- 9:26 into the third periodBrett Hull · high sticking2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 18Tony HrkacC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 7Cliff RonningC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 9Peter ZezelC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 16Brett HullR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Herb RaglanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Tom TilleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 10Tony McKegneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 15Craig CoxeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Gino CavalliniL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Rick MeagherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Greg PaslawskiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 32Doug EvansL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 2Brian BenningD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 5Dave RichterD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Tim BothwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 14Paul CavalliniD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 23Gaston GingrasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Greg MillenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Vincent RiendeauG | L | 22 | 4 | .818 |
New Jersey Devils
| 5Tom KurversD | 0 | 3 | 3 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 8David MaleyL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 14Jim KornD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 9Kirk MullerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 10Aaron BrotenC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 16Pat VerbeekR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 25Perry AndersonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Randy VelischekD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11Brendan ShanahanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15John MacLeanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Patrik SundstromC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 19Claude LoiselleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 20Anders CarlssonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 32Pat ConacherL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Joe CirellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Jamie HuscroftD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Tommy AlbelinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sean BurkeG | W | 23 | 3 | .870 |
| 28Bob SauveG | 0 | 0 | – |