1985–86 Hartford Whalers season

The 1985–86 Hartford Whalers season saw the Whalers finish in fourth place in the Adams Division with a record of 40 wins, 36 losses, and 4 ties for 84 points. They beat the Quebec Nordiques in the Adams Division Semifinals in three games, for their first and only playoff series victory in franchise history. They lost the Adams Division Finals in seven games to the Montreal Canadiens.

Offseason

NHL Draft

Round	#	Player	Position	Nationality	College/junior/club team (League)
1	5	Dana Murzyn (Defence)	Canada	Calgary Wranglers (WHL)

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Regular season

Season standings

Adams Division	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA	PIM
Quebec Nordiques	80	43	31	6	92	330	289	1847
Montreal Canadiens	80	40	33	7	87	330	280	1372
Boston Bruins	80	37	31	12	86	311	288	1919
Hartford Whalers	80	40	36	4	84	332	302	1759
Buffalo Sabres	80	37	37	6	80	296	291	1608

Schedule and results

THIS IS AN INCOMPLETE LIST

1985-86 Game Log

November

December

January

February

March

April

1985-86 Schedule

Green background indicates win.
Red background indicates regulation loss.
White background indicates overtime/shootout loss.

Player statistics

Forwards

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
Sylvain Turgeon	76	45	34	79	1	88
Ray Ferraro	76	30	47	77	10	57
Ron Francis	53	24	53	77	8	24
Kevin Dineen	57	33	35	68	16	124
Stewart Gavin	76	26	29	55	12	51
Dean Evason	55	20	28	48	12	65
Paul Lawless	64	17	21	38	-3	20
Torrie Robertson	76	13	24	37	-11	358
Bob Crawford	57	14	20	34	-16	16
Dave Tippett	80	14	20	34	9	18
Wayne Babych	37	11	17	28	6	59
John Anderson	14	8	17	25	18	2
Doug Jarvis	57	8	16	24	7	20
Paul MacDermid	74	13	10	23	1	160
Ray Neufeld	16	5	10	15	-3	40
Greg Malone	22	6	7	13	-5	24
Mike Zuke	17	0	2	2	-2	12
Paul Fenton	1	0	0	0	1	0

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Defencemen

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/-	PIM
Dave Babych	62	10	43	53	2	36
Risto Siltanen	52	8	22	30	2	30
Dana Murzyn	78	3	23	26	1	125
Joel Quenneville	80	5	19	24	21	83
Ulf Samuelsson	80	5	19	24	7	174
Mike McEwen	10	3	2	5	5	6
Brad Shaw	8	0	2	2	-1	4
Sylvain Cote	2	0	0	0	1	0
Mark Paterson	5	0	0	0	-5	5
Jack Brownschilde	9	0	0	0	-4	4

Goaltending

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; SO = Shutouts; GAA = Goals against average

Player	GP	MIN	W	L	T	SO	GAA
Mike Liut	57	3282	27	23	4	2	3.62
Steve Weeks	27	1544	13	13	0	1	3.85

Roster

1985-86 Hartford Whalers

Goaltenders

1 – Mike Liut
31 – Steve Weeks

Defensemen

Wingers

7 – Stew Gavin
11 – Kevin Dineen
15 – Dave Tippett
16 – Sylvain Turgeon
17 – Wayne Babych
17 – Ray Neufeld
20 – John Anderson
20 – Mike Hoffman
22 – Jorgen Pettersson
23 – Paul MacDermid
25 – Bob Crawford
28 – Paul Lawless
29 – Paul Fenton
32 – Torrie Robertson

Centers

10 – Ron Francis - C
12 – Dean Evason
14 – Bill Gardner
14 – Greg Malone
20 – Mike Zuke
26 – Ray Ferraro
27 – Doug Jarvis
33 – John Newberry
Coach: Jack Evans
GM: Emile Francis

References

1985-86 Hartford Whalers at Hockey Reference

Hartford Whalers seasons

1970s	1970–71 . 1971–72 . 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80

1980s	1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90

1990s	1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 Carolina

1985–86 NHL season

Patrick	New Jersey NY Islanders NY Rangers Philadelphia Pittsburgh Washington

Adams	Boston Buffalo Hartford Montreal Quebec

Norris	Chicago Detroit Minnesota St. Louis Toronto

Smythe	Calgary Edmonton Los Angeles Vancouver Winnipeg

See also	Draft All-Star Game The Monday Night Miracle Stanley Cup playoffs Stanley Cup Finals

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