Philadelphia Flyers vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Monday, December 31, 1990 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5–2 on Monday, December 31, 1990 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Flyers outshot the Sabres 31–30.
Alexander Mogilny scored twice. Dale Hawerchuk, Rick Tocchet, Grant Ledyard, Murray Craven and Pierre Turgeon also scored.
Daren Puppa made 29 saves on 31 shots for the win; Ron Hextall stopped 25 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Alexander Mogilny (9)Unassisted0–104:31 BUF
Dale Hawerchuk (11)Alexander Mogilny (14), Dave Andreychuk (14)0–209:54 BUF
2nd period
Rick Tocchet (25)Mike Ricci (10), Murray Craven (26)1–201:05 PHI- Alexander Mogilny (10)Pierre Turgeon (19)1–316:10 BUF
3rd period
Grant Ledyard (1)Rick Vaive (16)1–400:48 BUF
Murray Craven (11)Jiri Latal (14)2–405:31 PHI · 
Pierre Turgeon (15)Alexander Mogilny (15), Uwe Krupp (12)2–517:42 BUF ·
Team stats
PHIBUF
3130
0%0%
1/61/5
1517
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:53 into the first period
Rick Vaive · tripping2 min - 7:45 into the first period
Tim Kerr · tripping2 min - 15:45 into the first periodChristian Ruuttu · holding2 min
- 9:30 into the second periodTerry Carkner · roughing2 min
- 12:03 into the second periodRob Ray · fighting5 min
- 12:03 into the second periodTerry Carkner · fighting5 min
- 16:56 into the second periodGreg Brown · holding2 min
- 3:31 into the third periodMike Hartman · hooking2 min
- 5:25 into the third periodJay Wells · high sticking2 min
- 9:49 into the third periodDale Kushner · cross checking2 min
- 13:00 into the third periodKeith Acton · charging2 min
- 15:49 into the third periodGord Murphy · high sticking2 min
- 18:57 into the third periodBenoit Hogue · tripping2 min
Season series
Philadelphia Flyers
| 32Murray CravenL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 18Mike RicciC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 22Rick TocchetR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 11Jiri LatalD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Dale KushnerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 12Tim KerrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 14Ron SutterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 17Craig BerubeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 19Scott MellanbyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Normand LacombeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 21Tony HoracekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Keith ActonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 26Martin HostakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Gord MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Murray BaronD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 1 | – |
| 28Kjell SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Terry CarknerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 39David FenyvesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27Ron HextallG | L | 30 | 5 | .833 |
| 35Ken WreggetG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 89Alexander MogilnyR | 2 | 2 | 4 | +3 | 6 | – |
| 77Pierre TurgeonC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 10Dale HawerchukC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 22Rick VaiveR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 3Grant LedyardD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 4Uwe KruppD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Lou FranceschettiL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 18Dave SnuggerudL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 20Mike HartmanL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 21Christian RuuttuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 32Rob RayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 33Benoit HogueL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 42Mikko MakelaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 9Greg BrownD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 24Jay WellsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Dean KennedyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Clint MalarchukG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Daren PuppaG | W | 31 | 2 | .935 |