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Monday, January 12, 1987 · Brendan Byrne Arena

Whalers 5 at Devils 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 71OVR Mark Johnson Devils First Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG C 73OVR Mel Bridgman Red Wings Second Star 3A · 2 SOG D 71OVR Bruce Driver Devils Third Star 2G · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 3:22 Doug Sulliman (16) John MacLean (13), Greg Adams (17) HFD 0 – 1 NJD
  2. 5:38 Mark Johnson (12) Mel Bridgman (22), Ken Daneyko (5) HFD 0 – 2 NJD
  3. 7:41 Ron Francis (13) Kevin Dineen (16), Ulf Samuelsson (17) HFD 1 – 2 NJD
  4. 16:45 Sylvain Turgeon (1) PPG Dave Babych (20) HFD 2 – 2 NJD
  5. 17:48 Greg Adams (14) PPG John MacLean (14), Mark Johnson (10) HFD 2 – 3 NJD
  6. 19:47 Scot Kleinendorst (2) Sylvain Turgeon (2), Dean Evason (20) HFD 3 – 3 NJD

2nd Period

  1. 13:16 Bruce Driver (2) Doug Sulliman (14), Mel Bridgman (23) HFD 3 – 4 NJD
  2. 14:12 Kevin Dineen (19) PPG Dave Babych (21), John Anderson (20) HFD 4 – 4 NJD

3rd Period

  1. 5:47 Bruce Driver (3) Aaron Broten (33), Kirk Muller (26) HFD 4 – 5 NJD
  2. 10:34 Dave Babych (6) PPG John Anderson (21), Mike McEwen (5) HFD 5 – 5 NJD
  3. 11:39 Pat Verbeek (19) Unassisted HFD 5 – 6 NJD
  4. 19:50 Mark Johnson (13) Mel Bridgman (24) HFD 5 – 7 NJD

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Dave Babych D 1 2 3 -3 1.78
Sylvain Turgeon L 1 1 4 0 1.68
Kevin Dineen R 1 1 4 -2 1.38
John Anderson R 0 2 5 -3 1.18
Dean Evason C 0 1 2 -1 0.63
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 1 4 -1 0.63
Ron Francis C 1 0 5 -3 0.53
Mike McEwen D 0 1 1 -2 0.40
Scot Kleinendorst C 1 0 3 -1 0.30
Paul Macdermid R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Dave Semenko L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Ray Ferraro C 0 0 3 0 0.07
Wayne Babych R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Stew Gavin R 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dana Murzyn D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Doug Jarvis C 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Dave Tippett L 0 0 1 -1 -0.38
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Steve Weeks L 25 19 6 .760 59:28 -2.60

New Jersey Devils

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Mark Johnson C 2 1 2 +2 2.58
Mel Bridgman C 0 3 2 +1 2.18
Bruce Driver D 2 0 3 +3 2.18
Greg Adams L 1 1 3 +2 1.90
Doug Sulliman L 1 1 1 +2 1.75
John MacLean R 0 2 2 +1 1.40
Pat Verbeek R 1 0 3 +2 1.28
Ken Daneyko D 0 1 3 +2 1.15
Aaron Broten C 0 1 0 0 0.48
Andy Brickley L 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Uli Hiemer D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Kirk Muller L 0 1 0 +1 0.25
Craig Wolanin D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Claude Loiselle C 0 0 0 0 0.00
Perry Anderson L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Jan Ludvig R 0 0 2 0 0.00
Timo Blomqvist D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Randy Velischek D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Craig Billington W 38 33 5 .868 60:00 -0.45