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Thursday, December 17, 1987 · Brendan Byrne Arena

Penguins 7 at Devils 4

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 99OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins First Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG L 57OVR Mark Kachowski Penguins Second Star 2G · 4 SOG RC C 61OVR Dave Mcllwain Penguins Third Star 2G · 2 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 5:54 Randy Velischek (2) SHG Unassisted PIT 0 – 1 NJD
  2. 9:30 Pat Verbeek (18) Kirk Muller (24), Bruce Driver (15) PIT 0 – 2 NJD
  3. 14:44 Mark Kachowski (2) Wayne Van Dorp (1), Jim Johnson (5) PIT 1 – 2 NJD

2nd Period

  1. 2:11 Mark Kachowski (3) Unassisted PIT 2 – 2 NJD
  2. 5:28 Mario Lemieux (26) PPG Randy Hillier (3) PIT 3 – 2 NJD
  3. 12:50 Kirk Muller (9) PPG Aaron Broten (17), Mark Johnson (6) PIT 3 – 3 NJD
  4. 18:34 Mario Lemieux (27) SHG Unassisted PIT 4 – 3 NJD

3rd Period

  1. 7:29 John MacLean (5) Patrik Sundstrom (16), Craig Wolanin (11) PIT 4 – 4 NJD
  2. 10:02 Randy Cunneyworth (16) PPG Phil Bourque (2), Mario Lemieux (33) PIT 5 – 4 NJD
  3. 16:16 Dave Mcllwain (5) Troy Loney (3), Dave Hunter (5) PIT 6 – 4 NJD
  4. 18:16 Dave Mcllwain (6) Troy Loney (4) PIT 7 – 4 NJD

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mario Lemieux C 2 1 4 0 0 -1 0:00 2.28
Mark Kachowski L 2 0 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.10
Dave Mcllwain C 2 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.95
Troy Loney L 0 2 3 0 0 +3 0:00 1.78
Jim Johnson D 0 1 4 0 0 +2 0:00 1.08
Dave Hunter L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Phil Bourque L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Wayne Van Dorp L 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.55
Randy Cunneyworth L 1 0 4 0 0 -2 0:00 0.45
Randy Hillier D 0 1 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.40
Norm Schmidt D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Kenneth Gruhl L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Chris Dahlquist D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.08
Dan Quinn C 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
Lee Giffin R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Jock Callander R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Chris Kontos C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Rod Buskas D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Gilles Meloche W 28 24 4 .857 60:00 -0.60

New Jersey Devils

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Kirk Muller L 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.30
John MacLean R 1 0 5 0 0 -1 0:00 0.98
Bruce Driver D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Pat Verbeek R 1 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.75
Aaron Broten C 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Mark Johnson C 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Craig Wolanin D 0 1 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.63
Randy Velischek D 1 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 0.53
Patrik Sundstrom C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.48
Claude Loiselle C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Ken Daneyko D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Doug Brown R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Andy Brickley L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Joe Cirella D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Jim Korn D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Tom Kurvers D 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Brendan Shanahan L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.53
Perry Anderson L 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.90
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Alain Chevrier L 32 25 7 .781 60:00 -2.75