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Wednesday, December 2, 1987 · Joe Louis Arena

Oilers 4 at Red Wings 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 97OVR Craig Simpson Oilers First Star 3G · 4 SOG C 83OVR John Chabot Red Wings Second Star 2G · 2 SOG L 94OVR Gerard Gallant Red Wings Third Star 2G · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:42 Brent Ashton (9) Petr Klima (3), Darren Veitch (12) EDM 0 – 1 DET
  2. 1:02 Gerard Gallant (8) Bob Probert (14) EDM 0 – 2 DET
  3. 3:09 Shawn Burr (7) PPG Petr Klima (4), Jeff Sharples (6) EDM 0 – 3 DET
  4. 7:34 Craig Simpson (16) Esa Tikkanen (20), Steve Smith (14) EDM 1 – 3 DET
  5. 8:10 John Chabot (2) Tim Higgins (4), Joe Murphy (4) EDM 1 – 4 DET
  6. 11:47 Gerard Gallant (9) PPG Steve Yzerman (14), Darren Veitch (13) EDM 1 – 5 DET
  7. 19:43 Craig Simpson (17) PPG Wayne Gretzky (43), Glenn Anderson (14) EDM 2 – 5 DET

2nd Period

  1. 6:59 Mike Krushelnyski (5) Normand Lacombe (4) EDM 3 – 5 DET
  2. 17:08 John Chabot (3) Tim Higgins (5), Mel Bridgman (3) EDM 3 – 6 DET

3rd Period

  1. 0:52 Joe Murphy (4) Unassisted EDM 3 – 7 DET
  2. 18:24 Craig Simpson (18) PPG Moe Mantha (10), Esa Tikkanen (21) EDM 4 – 7 DET

Edmonton Oilers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Craig Simpson L 3 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 2.55
Esa Tikkanen L 0 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.78
Mike Krushelnyski C 1 0 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.28
Moe Mantha D 0 1 7 0 0 -1 0:00 1.00
Normand Lacombe R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Glenn Anderson R 0 1 4 0 0 -3 0:00 0.48
Steve Smith D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.48
Wayne Gretzky C 0 1 2 0 0 -3 0:00 0.33
Dave Hannan C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Craig Muni D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Chris Joseph D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Kevin Lowe D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Steve Graves L 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Charlie Huddy D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Craig MacTavish C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.38
Jari Kurri R 0 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.38
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.38
Kelly Buchberger R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.53
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Daryl Reaugh — 16 14 2 .875 40:00 -0.10
Grant Fuhr L 9 4 5 .444 20:00 -3.35

Detroit Red Wings

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
John Chabot C 2 0 2 0 0 +3 0:00 2.10
Gerard Gallant L 2 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.95
Joe Murphy R 1 1 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.83
Tim Higgins R 0 2 1 0 0 +3 0:00 1.78
Darren Veitch D 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.55
Petr Klima R 0 2 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.48
Steve Yzerman C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Brent Ashton L 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Mel Bridgman C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Bob Probert L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.55
Shawn Burr L 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.53
Jeff Sharples D 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Steve Chiasson D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Adam Oates C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Doug Halward D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Gilbert Delorme D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Rick Zombo D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.30
Joey Kocur R 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.68
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Glen Hanlon W 33 30 3 .909 59:19 0.75
Greg Stefan — 1 0 1 .000 0:41 -0.75