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Thursday, December 17, 1987 · Boston Garden

Canucks 2 at Bruins 3

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

D 99OVR Ray Bourque Bruins First Star 2G · 10 SOG G 66OVR Kirk McLean Canucks Second Star 48 SV · .941 RC C 92OVR Ken Linseman Bruins Third Star 1G · 1A · 4 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:58 John Leblanc (4) Stan Smyl (19), Doug Wickenheiser (7) VAN 1 – 0 BOS
  2. 15:58 Petri Skriko (10) PPG Jim Sandlak (1), Steve Tambellini (9) VAN 2 – 0 BOS

2nd Period

  1. 13:02 Ray Bourque (5) Geoff Courtnall (10), Ken Linseman (19) VAN 2 – 1 BOS

3rd Period

  1. 17:13 Ken Linseman (8) Reed Larson (11) VAN 2 – 2 BOS

Overtime

  1. 2:16 Ray Bourque (6) Rick Middleton (10) VAN 2 – 3 BOS

Vancouver Canucks

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Petri Skriko L 1 0 2 0 0.90
Stan Smyl R 0 1 2 -1 0.63
John Leblanc R 1 0 4 -1 0.60
Jim Sandlak R 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Steve Tambellini C 0 1 1 -1 0.55
Doug Wickenheiser C 0 1 0 -1 0.48
Doug Lidster D 0 0 6 0 0.45
Greg Adams L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Craig Coxe L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Jim Agnew D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Rich Sutter R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Dan Woodley R 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ian Kidd D 0 0 0 0 0.00
David Saunders L 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Randy Boyd D 0 0 1 -1 -0.08
Dave Richter D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Jim Benning D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
Garth Butcher D 0 0 0 -1 -0.60
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Kirk McLean L 51 48 3 .941 62:16 2.55

Boston Bruins

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Ray Bourque D 2 0 10 +3 2.70
Ken Linseman C 1 1 4 0 1.38
Geoff Courtnall L 0 1 6 +1 1.22
Rick Middleton R 0 1 2 +1 0.93
Reed Larson D 0 1 3 +1 0.85
Keith Crowder R 0 0 6 0 0.45
Gord Kluzak D 0 0 3 +1 0.38
Steve Kasper C 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Glen Wesley D 0 0 5 -1 0.23
Bob Sweeney C 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Billy O'Dwyer C 0 0 2 +1 0.15
Willi Plett R 0 0 2 0 0.15
Lyndon Byers R 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Jay Miller L 0 0 1 0 0.08
Michael Thelven D 0 0 1 0 0.08
Allen Pedersen D 0 0 0 0 0.00
Frank Simonetti D 0 0 1 0 -0.08
Randy Burridge L 0 0 2 0 -0.23
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rejean Lemelin W 23 21 2 .913 62:16 0.60