Hartford Whalers vs New Jersey Devils
Regular season · Wednesday, March 27, 1991 · Brendan Byrne Arena
Game summary
The New Jersey Devils beat the Hartford Whalers 4–3 in overtime on Wednesday, March 27, 1991 at Brendan Byrne Arena. The Whalers outshot the Devils 27–25.
Doug Brown scored twice and Pat Verbeek scored twice. Kirk Muller, Zarley Zalapski and Brendan Shanahan also scored.
Sean Burke made 24 saves on 27 shots for the win; Peter Sidorkiewicz stopped 21 of 25.
Scoring
1st period
Kirk Muller (19)Claude Lemieux (17), Zdeno Ciger (17)0–104:50 NJD
Doug Brown (13)Viacheslav Fetisov (16)0–212:08 NJD
2nd period
Pat Verbeek (42)John Cullen (69)1–206:19 HFD
Zarley Zalapski (15)Kevin Dineen (30), Mark Hunter (17)2–212:49 HFD · - Pat Verbeek (43)Mark Hunter (18), John Cullen (70)3–215:04 HFD
3rd period
Brendan Shanahan (28)Bruce Driver (35), John MacLean (33)3–309:32 NJD ·
Overtime
- Doug Brown (14)Unassisted3–402:47 NJD
Team stats
HFDNJD
2725
0%0%
1/11/5
5527
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 9:43 into the first period
Randy Ladouceur · roughing2 min - 9:43 into the first period
Eric Weinrich · roughing2 min - 10:06 into the first periodJohn Cullen · elbowing2 min
- 2:47 into the second periodRob Brown · roughing2 min
- 2:47 into the second periodRob Brown · fighting5 min
- 2:47 into the second periodEric Weinrich · fighting5 min
- 12:20 into the second periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 6:17 into the third periodJohn Cullen · roughing2 min
- 6:17 into the third periodJohn Cullen · roughing2 min
- 6:17 into the third periodPat Verbeek · roughing2 min
- 6:17 into the third periodPat Verbeek · roughing2 min
- 6:17 into the third periodKen Daneyko · roughing2 min
- 6:17 into the third periodKen Daneyko · roughing2 min
- 6:17 into the third periodDavid Maley · roughing2 min
- 6:17 into the third periodDavid Maley · roughing2 min
- 8:48 into the third periodJeff Parker · holding2 min
- 12:31 into the third periodPaul Cyr · roughing2 min
- 12:31 into the third periodPaul Cyr · roughing2 min
- 12:31 into the third periodKevin Dineen · roughing2 min
- 12:31 into the third periodKevin Dineen · roughing2 min
- 12:31 into the third periodJohn Stevens · roughing2 min
- 12:31 into the third periodTommy Albelin · roughing2 min
- 12:31 into the third periodBrendan Shanahan · roughing2 min
- 12:31 into the third periodBrendan Shanahan · roughing2 min
- 12:31 into the third periodPatrik Sundstrom · interference2 min
- 16:22 into the third periodRob Brown · high sticking2 min
- 16:22 into the third periodDavid Maley · high sticking2 min
- 16:57 into the third periodMark Hunter · slashing2 min
- 16:57 into the third periodPat Verbeek · misconduct10 min
- 16:57 into the third periodPat Verbeek · game misconduct10 min
Season series
Hartford Whalers
| 15John CullenC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Pat VerbeekR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 26Mark HunterR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 11Kevin DineenR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Zarley ZalapskiD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 4Rob BrownR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 17Todd KrygierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 24Bobby HolikC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 25Jeff ParkerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 33Jim McKenzieL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 38Terry YakeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 27Doug HoudaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 29Randy LadouceurD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 32Brad ShawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 45John StevensD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Peter SidorkiewiczG | L | 25 | 4 | .840 |
| 35Kay WhitmoreG | 0 | 0 | – |
New Jersey Devils
| 24Doug BrownR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 9Kirk MullerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 11Brendan ShanahanL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15John MacLeanR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Claude LemieuxR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 33Zdeno CigerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 2Viacheslav FetisovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 23Bruce DriverD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 8David MaleyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 16Laurie BoschmanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Patrik SundstromC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Peter StastnyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 32Pat ConacherL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 3Ken DaneykoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Eric WeinrichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 6Tommy AlbelinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 7Alexei KasatonovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Jamie HuscroftD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Sean BurkeG | W | 27 | 3 | .889 |
| 31Chris TerreriG | 0 | 0 | – |