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Saturday, January 9, 1988 · Hartford Civic Center

Penguins 4 at Whalers 5

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 99OVR Mario Lemieux Penguins First Star 1G · 2A · 4 SOG C 81OVR Ron Francis Whalers Second Star 1G · 2A · 3 SOG R 60OVR Mike Millar Whalers Third Star 3A · 5 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:56 Ron Francis (14) Mike Millar (5), Tom Martin (1) PIT 0 – 1 HFD
  2. 13:24 John Anderson (11) PPG Ray Ferraro (16), Sylvain Turgeon (15) PIT 0 – 2 HFD
  3. 16:29 John Anderson (12) PPG Ron Francis (27), Mike Millar (6) PIT 0 – 3 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 18:23 Dave Mcllwain (9) Dan Quinn (16) PIT 1 – 3 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 8:40 Todd Charlesworth (1) Dan Quinn (17), Mario Lemieux (46) PIT 2 – 3 HFD
  2. 14:01 Charlie Simmer (4) PPG Mario Lemieux (47), Randy Cunneyworth (20) PIT 3 – 3 HFD
  3. 15:08 Tom Martin (1) Mike Millar (7), Ron Francis (28) PIT 3 – 4 HFD
  4. 19:39 Mario Lemieux (36) Charlie Simmer (10), Phil Bourque (10) PIT 4 – 4 HFD

Overtime

  1. 0:55 Kevin Dineen (17) Joel Quenneville (4) PIT 4 – 5 HFD

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mario Lemieux C 1 2 4 0 0 +2 0:00 2.60
Charlie Simmer L 1 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.68
Dan Quinn C 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.55
Todd Charlesworth D 1 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.20
Dave Mcllwain C 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Randy Cunneyworth L 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Phil Bourque L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Rod Buskas D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Lee Giffin R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Dave Hunter L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Wayne Van Dorp L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Perry Ganchar R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Steve Gotaas C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Troy Loney L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Randy Hillier D 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Wilf Paiement R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Doug Bodger D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Chris Dahlquist D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Pat Riggin — 12 9 3 .750 20:00 -1.35
Gilles Meloche L 26 24 2 .923 40:55 0.90

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Ron Francis C 1 2 3 0 0 0 0:00 2.23
Mike Millar R 0 3 5 0 0 0 0:00 2.10
John Anderson R 2 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.80
Kevin Dineen R 1 0 7 0 0 +1 0:00 1.43
Tom Martin L 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.38
Ray Ferraro C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Sylvain Turgeon L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Joel Quenneville D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Paul Lawless L 0 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.38
Dave Babych D 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Torrie Robertson L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Dave Tippett L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Brad Shaw D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Paul Macdermid R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Ulf Samuelsson D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Dean Evason C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
Scot Kleinendorst C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Mike Liut W 23 19 4 .826 60:55 -1.10