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Sunday, December 14, 1986 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium

Whalers 3 at Sabres 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 46OVR Lindy Ruff Sabres First Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG C 96OVR Ron Francis Whalers Second Star 2A · 2 SOG D 71OVR Tom Kurvers Sabres Third Star 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:51 Jeff Parker (2) Tom Kurvers (6), Lindy Ruff (8) HFD 0 – 1 BUF
  2. 6:53 John Anderson (10) Ron Francis (21), Paul Macdermid (3) HFD 1 – 1 BUF
  3. 16:27 Doug Smith (1) PPG Dave Andreychuk (15), Phil Housley (17) HFD 1 – 2 BUF

2nd Period

  1. 7:03 Normand Lacombe (3) Scott Arniel (3) HFD 1 – 3 BUF
  2. 15:47 Dana Murzyn (5) Ulf Samuelsson (11) HFD 2 – 3 BUF
  3. 16:09 Lindy Ruff (4) Mike Ramsey (7) HFD 2 – 4 BUF

3rd Period

  1. 11:11 Mike McEwen (2) PPG Ron Francis (22) HFD 3 – 4 BUF

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ron Francis C 0 2 2 0 0 -1 0:00 1.25
Mike McEwen D 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.05
Paul Macdermid R 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Dana Murzyn D 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
John Anderson R 1 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.55
Mike Millar R 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Dave Barr R 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Ray Ferraro C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Doug Jarvis C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Dave Tippett L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Kevin Dineen R 0 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.00
Paul Lawless L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Stew Gavin R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dean Evason C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Scot Kleinendorst C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Dave Babych D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Liut L 27 23 4 .852 59:06 -0.70

Buffalo Sabres

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Lindy Ruff L 1 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.68
Tom Kurvers D 0 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Doug Smith C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Jeff Parker R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Normand Lacombe R 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Mike Ramsey D 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Phil Housley D 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Dave Andreychuk L 0 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.85
Scott Arniel L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Paul Cyr L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Paul Brydges C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Gaetano Orlando C 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
John Tucker R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Wilf Paiement R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Christian Ruuttu C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Joe Reekie D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Steve Dykstra L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Uwe Krupp D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Jacques Cloutier W 25 22 3 .880 60:00 -0.05