Montréal Canadiens vs Calgary Flames
Regular season · Thursday, December 29, 1988 · Olympic Saddledome
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Calgary Flames 4–3 on Thursday, December 29, 1988 at Olympic Saddledome. The Flames outshot the Canadiens 35–29.
Mats Naslund scored twice. Claude Lemieux, Stephane Richer, Joel Otto, Joe Mullen and Jiri Hrdina also scored.
Patrick Roy made 32 saves on 35 shots for the win; Mike Vernon stopped 25 of 29.
Scoring
2nd period
Mats Naslund (17)Petr Svoboda (17), Claude Lemieux (15)1–000:54 MTL · 
Claude Lemieux (20)Brent Gilchrist (5), Patrick Roy (4)2–004:06 MTL- Mats Naslund (18)Rick Green (5), Bobby Smith (25)3–004:40 MTL
Stephane Richer (9)Guy Carbonneau (17), Jyrki Lumme (3)4–016:41 MTL · 
Joel Otto (9)Gary Suter (26), Joe Mullen (23)4–117:35 CGY ·
3rd period
Joe Mullen (22)Brad McCrimmon (8)4–215:18 CGY
Jiri Hrdina (15)Dana Murzyn (5), Brad McCrimmon (9)4–316:40 CGY
Team stats
MTLCGY
2935
0%0%
2/61/5
1012
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 5:33 into the first period
Petr Svoboda · tripping2 min - 13:30 into the first period
Brad McCrimmon · high sticking2 min - 15:01 into the first periodLarry Robinson · hooking2 min
- 16:05 into the first periodGary Suter · hooking2 min
- 0:26 into the second periodDana Murzyn · tripping2 min
- 15:05 into the second periodJim Peplinski · interference2 min
- 17:07 into the second periodJyrki Lumme · interference2 min
- 6:10 into the third periodTim Hunter · slashing2 min
- 7:34 into the third periodClaude Lemieux · interference2 min
- 10:25 into the third periodGary Roberts · holding2 min
- 11:49 into the third periodStephane Richer · tripping2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 26Mats NaslundL | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 32Claude LemieuxR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 41Brent GilchristL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Jyrki LummeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 6Russ CourtnallR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Steve MartinsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Ryan WalterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 27Shayne CorsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 35Mike McpheeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Craig LudwigD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Chris CheliosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brian HaywardG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Patrick RoyG | W | 35 | 3 | .914 |
Calgary Flames
| 7Joe MullenR | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 4Brad McCrimmonD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 17Jiri HrdinaC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 29Joel OttoC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 5Dana MurzynD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Gary SuterD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 10Gary RobertsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Colin PattersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Hakan LoobR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Tim HunterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Perry BerezanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 24Jim PeplinskiL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Joe NieuwendykC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 26Paul RanheimL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 39Doug GilmourC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 2Al MacInnisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 6 | – |
| 34Jamie MacounD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 55Rob RamageD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Mike VernonG | L | 29 | 4 | .862 |
| 31Rick WamsleyG | 0 | 0 | – |