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Saturday, December 17, 1988 · Hartford Civic Center

Oilers 4 at Whalers 2

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 86OVR Craig MacTavish Oilers First Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG G 71OVR Grant Fuhr Oilers Second Star 31 SV · .939 C 98OVR Jimmy Carson Oilers Third Star 2A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 8:34 Steve Smith (3) Craig MacTavish (19), Kevin McClelland (6) EDM 1 – 0 HFD
  2. 13:28 Craig MacTavish (5) SHG Steve Smith (15), Mark Messier (27) EDM 2 – 0 HFD
  3. 14:57 Dave Tippett (9) Dave Babych (12), Kevin Dineen (14) EDM 2 – 1 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 18:24 Ray Ferraro (14) Unassisted EDM 2 – 2 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 3:35 Esa Tikkanen (21) Jari Kurri (35), Jimmy Carson (20) EDM 3 – 2 HFD
  2. 6:36 Craig Muni (3) Jimmy Carson (21) EDM 4 – 2 HFD

Edmonton Oilers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Craig MacTavish C 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Jimmy Carson C 0 2 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.55
Steve Smith D 1 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 1.45
Craig Muni D 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Esa Tikkanen L 1 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Jari Kurri R 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Kevin McClelland R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Mark Messier C 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.70
Craig Simpson L 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Greg Adams L 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Jeff Beukeboom D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Keith Acton C 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Charlie Huddy D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.07
Doug Smith C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Glenn Anderson R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Chris Joseph D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Kelly Buchberger R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Kevin Lowe D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Grant Fuhr W 33 31 2 .939 60:00 1.60

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Dave Tippett L 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Kevin Dineen R 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Dave Babych D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Ray Ferraro C 1 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 0.68
Sylvain Cote D 0 0 6 0 0 +1 0:00 0.60
Ron Francis C 0 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 0.38
Mark Reeds R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Grant Jennings D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Sylvain Turgeon L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Scott Young R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Jody Hull R 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Tom Martin L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Paul Macdermid R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Joel Quenneville D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Brent Peterson C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Carey Wilson C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Adam Burt D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Randy Ladouceur D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Peter Sidorkiewicz L 18 14 4 .778 59:13 -1.60