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Saturday, December 21, 1985 · Hartford Civic Center

Devils 6 at Whalers 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 81OVR Kirk Muller Devils First Star 2G · 1A · 6 SOG R 61OVR Tim Higgins Devils Second Star 3A · 1 SOG C 96OVR Ron Francis Whalers Third Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:09 Greg Adams (13) Pat Verbeek (13) NJD 1 – 0 HFD
  2. 4:37 Bob Crawford (9) PPG Ron Francis (27), Ray Ferraro (13) NJD 1 – 1 HFD
  3. 6:05 Dave Pichette (4) PPG Aaron Broten (16), Pat Verbeek (14) NJD 2 – 1 HFD
  4. 8:05 Kirk Muller (9) John MacLean (12) NJD 3 – 1 HFD
  5. 17:06 Torrie Robertson (6) PPG Ray Ferraro (14) NJD 3 – 2 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 11:56 Paul Lawless (11) Stew Gavin (10), Dean Evason (7) NJD 3 – 3 HFD
  2. 12:13 Stew Gavin (11) Paul Lawless (10), Dean Evason (8) NJD 3 – 4 HFD
  3. 15:30 Ron Francis (13) PPG Sylvain Turgeon (11), Kevin Dineen (17) NJD 3 – 5 HFD
  4. 19:14 Bob Crawford (10) Ray Ferraro (15), Torrie Robertson (17) NJD 3 – 6 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 0:59 Paul Macdermid (1) Sylvain Turgeon (12), Ron Francis (28) NJD 3 – 7 HFD
  2. 2:07 Kirk Muller (10) Tim Higgins (8), Craig Wolanin (9) NJD 4 – 7 HFD
  3. 7:48 Paul Gagne (6) Tim Higgins (9) NJD 5 – 7 HFD
  4. 15:26 Mel Bridgman (10) Kirk Muller (17), Tim Higgins (10) NJD 6 – 7 HFD

New Jersey Devils

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Kirk Muller L 2 1 6 0 0 +4 0:00 3.18
Tim Higgins R 0 3 1 0 0 +3 0:00 2.25
Pat Verbeek R 0 2 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.55
Greg Adams L 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Paul Gagne L 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.90
Aaron Broten C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Craig Wolanin D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Dave Pichette D 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.68
Mel Bridgman C 1 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.60
Dave Lewis D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bruce Driver D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
John MacLean R 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.03
Rich Preston R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Doug Sulliman L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Uli Hiemer D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Peter McNab C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Mark Johnson C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Joe Cirella D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -1.73
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Alain Chevrier L 27 20 7 .741 59:08 -3.25

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ron Francis C 1 2 3 0 0 -1 0:00 2.08
Ray Ferraro C 0 3 0 0 0 +1 0:00 2.03
Bob Crawford R 2 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.80
Torrie Robertson L 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Paul Lawless L 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Stew Gavin R 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.45
Dean Evason C 0 2 0 0 0 0 0:00 1.25
Sylvain Turgeon L 0 2 4 0 0 -1 0:00 1.25
Paul Macdermid R 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.90
Dana Murzyn D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Tim Bothwell D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Dave Tippett L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Doug Jarvis C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Risto Siltanen D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Dave Babych D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Scot Kleinendorst C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.45
Kevin Dineen R 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -1.03
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Liut W 31 25 6 .806 60:00 -2.00