New Jersey Devils vs New York Rangers
Regular season · Monday, December 26, 1988 · Madison Square Garden
Game summary
The New York Rangers beat the New Jersey Devils 5–1 on Monday, December 26, 1988 at Madison Square Garden. The Rangers outshot the Devils 35–30.
Tomas Sandstrom scored twice. Brian Mullen, Ulf Dahlen, Anders Carlsson and Michel Petit also scored.
John Vanbiesbrouck made 29 saves on 30 shots for the win; Sean Burke stopped 12 of 16.
Scoring
1st period
Brian Mullen (17)Kelly Kisio (20)0–103:50 NYR
Tomas Sandstrom (12)Carey Wilson (12), Tony Granato (10)0–208:25 NYR · 
Ulf Dahlen (16)Marcel Dionne (13), Rudy Poeschek (1)0–312:26 NYR
2nd period
- Tomas Sandstrom (13)Tony Granato (11), Carey Wilson (13)0–402:29 NYR
Anders Carlsson (1)Unassisted1–409:08 NJD
3rd period
Michel Petit (6)Tomas Sandstrom (21), Carey Wilson (14)1–515:36 NYR ·
Team stats
NJDNYR
3035
0%0%
0/32/7
2921
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 7:48 into the first period
Jim Korn · hooking2 min - 16:03 into the first periodPat Conacher · slashing2 min
- 16:03 into the first period
Ulf Dahlen · elbowing2 min - 16:59 into the first periodPat Verbeek · roughing2 min
- 16:59 into the first periodTony Granato · high sticking2 min
- 19:15 into the first periodDavid Maley · fighting5 min
- 19:15 into the first periodRudy Poeschek · instigator2 min
- 19:15 into the first periodRudy Poeschek · fighting5 min
- 19:21 into the first periodMichel Petit · high sticking2 min
- 19:56 into the first periodMark Johnson · slashing2 min
- 2:57 into the second periodJim Korn · holding2 min
- 9:05 into the second periodKirk Muller · high sticking2 min
- 9:05 into the second periodDavid Shaw · interference2 min
- 11:33 into the second periodClaude Loiselle · high sticking2 min
- 11:33 into the second periodMarcel Dionne · high sticking2 min
- 13:27 into the second periodTommy Albelin · elbowing2 min
- 16:34 into the second periodMark Johnson · hooking2 min
- 5:19 into the third periodTommy Albelin · interference2 min
- 9:46 into the third periodPerry Anderson · roughing2 min
- 9:46 into the third periodMichel Petit · roughing2 min
- 14:19 into the third periodTom Kurvers · holding2 min
- 17:40 into the third periodMichel Petit · tripping2 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 20Anders CarlssonC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 8David MaleyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 9Kirk MullerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 10Aaron BrotenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 11Brendan ShanahanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 12Mark JohnsonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15John MacLeanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 16Pat VerbeekR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 19Claude LoiselleC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Perry AndersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 32Pat ConacherL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 2Joe CirellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 4Jamie HuscroftD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 5Tom KurversD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 14Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Tommy AlbelinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 27Randy VelischekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sean BurkeG | L | 16 | 4 | .750 |
| 28Bob SauveG | 19 | 1 | .947 |
New York Rangers
| 17Carey WilsonC | 0 | 3 | 3 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 28Tomas SandstromR | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 18Tony GranatoR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 9Ulf DahlenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 11Kelly KisioC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Marcel DionneC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 19Brian MullenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 24Michel PetitD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Rudy PoeschekD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 20Jan ErixonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Kevin MillerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Brian LeetchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 4Ron GreschnerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 14Mark HardyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21David ShawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33Bob FroeseG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 34John VanbiesbrouckG | W | 30 | 1 | .967 |