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New Jersey Devils vs Buffalo Sabres

Regular season · Friday, December 1, 1989 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

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4–6

Final

27–44

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Game summary

The Buffalo Sabres beat the New Jersey Devils 6–4 on Friday, December 1, 1989 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Devils 44–27.

Pierre Turgeon scored a hat trick and Sylvain Turgeon scored twice. Dave Andreychuk, Mark Johnson, Mike Foligno, Walt Poddubny and Dave Snuggerud also scored.

Daren Puppa made 23 saves on 27 shots for the win; Sean Burke stopped 12 of 14.

Goals
New Jersey DevilsNJD121427
Buffalo SabresBUF222644

Scoring

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Team stats

NJDBUF
2744
0%0%
0/61/4
812
00
00
00
00

Penalties

  • 8:56 into the first periodDean Kennedy · interference2 min
  • 10:03 into the first periodChristian Ruuttu · high sticking2 min
  • 17:36 into the first periodBruce Driver · holding2 min
  • 18:54 into the first periodMike Foligno · interference2 min
  • 4:01 into the second periodBenoit Hogue · holding2 min
  • 12:51 into the second periodReijo Ruotsalainen · holding2 min
  • 17:40 into the second periodSean Burke · delaying game2 min
  • 9:56 into the third periodNeil Brady · holding2 min
  • 15:38 into the third periodMike Ramsey · holding2 min
  • 19:15 into the third periodUwe Krupp · hooking2 min

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