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Monday, December 28, 1987 · Brendan Byrne Arena

Islanders 4 at Devils 6

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 97OVR Pat Verbeek Devils First Star 1G · 3A · 6 SOG C 97OVR Pat LaFontaine Islanders Second Star 2G · 1A · 4 SOG C 93OVR Aaron Broten Devils Third Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 4:45 Patrick Flatley (8) PPG Pat LaFontaine (22), Tomas Jonsson (22) NYI 1 – 0 NJD
  2. 15:15 Pat LaFontaine (22) PPG Tomas Jonsson (23), Bryan Trottier (26) NYI 2 – 0 NJD

2nd Period

  1. 2:39 Aaron Broten (13) PPG Bruce Driver (18), Pat Verbeek (13) NYI 2 – 1 NJD
  2. 2:54 Todd McLellan (1) Dale Henry (2), Brad Dalgarno (7) NYI 3 – 1 NJD
  3. 15:55 Pat Verbeek (20) Bruce Driver (19), Aaron Broten (21) NYI 3 – 2 NJD
  4. 18:53 Kirk Muller (11) PPG Pat Verbeek (14), Bruce Driver (20) NYI 3 – 3 NJD

3rd Period

  1. 4:32 Joe Cirella (4) John MacLean (8), Brendan Shanahan (11) NYI 3 – 4 NJD
  2. 6:38 Pat LaFontaine (23) PPG Patrick Flatley (11), Denis Potvin (17) NYI 4 – 4 NJD
  3. 12:11 Kirk Muller (12) PPG Pat Verbeek (15), Aaron Broten (22) NYI 4 – 5 NJD
  4. 15:09 Patrik Sundstrom (8) Claude Loiselle (9) NYI 4 – 6 NJD

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Pat LaFontaine C 2 1 4 0 2.43
Patrick Flatley R 1 1 1 0 1.45
Todd McLellan C 1 0 2 0 0.90
Dale Henry L 0 1 1 +1 0.85
Brad Dalgarno R 0 1 0 +1 0.63
Bryan Trottier C 0 1 2 -2 0.48
Tomas Jonsson D 0 2 3 -3 0.42
Steve Konroyd D 0 0 2 +1 0.30
Bob Bassen L 0 0 3 0 0.22
Denis Potvin D 0 1 0 -2 0.18
Gord Dineen D 0 0 0 +1 0.15
Richard Kromm L 0 0 0 0 0.00
Ken Morrow D 0 0 1 -1 -0.22
Randy Wood R 0 0 0 -2 -0.30
Alan Kerr R 0 0 2 0 -0.38
Greg Gilbert L 0 0 0 -3 -0.45
Brad Lauer R 0 0 0 0 -0.75
Brian Curran D 0 0 1 -1 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith L 37 31 6 .838 60:00 -1.40

New Jersey Devils

Player G A SOG +/- GS
Pat Verbeek R 1 3 6 +1 3.23
Aaron Broten C 1 2 3 +1 2.38
Kirk Muller L 2 0 6 +1 2.10
Bruce Driver D 0 3 3 +1 2.10
Joe Cirella D 1 0 7 +2 1.28
Patrik Sundstrom C 1 0 3 +2 1.13
John MacLean R 0 1 2 +1 0.78
Brendan Shanahan L 0 1 1 0 0.70
Claude Loiselle C 0 1 1 +1 0.32
Doug Sulliman L 0 0 1 +1 0.22
Doug Brown R 0 0 1 0 0.08
Mark Johnson C 0 0 3 -1 0.07
Ken Daneyko D 0 0 0 +1 0.00
Gordon Mark D 0 0 0 -1 -0.15
Tom Kurvers D 0 0 0 0 -0.15
Jim Korn D 0 0 0 -1 -0.30
David Maley L 0 0 0 0 -0.38
Craig Wolanin D 0 0 0 +1 -0.75
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Sauve W 16 14 2 .875 39:14 -0.10
Alain Chevrier — 6 4 2 .667 20:46 -1.10