1986–87 Toronto Maple Leafs season
1986–87 Toronto Maple Leafs | |
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Division | 4th Norris |
Conference | 8th Campbell |
1986–87 record | 32–46–6 |
Home record | 22–14–4 |
Road record | 10–28–2 |
Goals for | 286 |
Goals against | 319 |
Team information | |
General manager | Gerry McNamara |
Coach | John Brophy |
Captain | Vacant |
Alternate captains | Wendel Clark Borje Salming Unknown |
Arena | Maple Leaf Gardens |
Team leaders | |
Goals | Wendel Clark 37 |
Assists | Russ Courtnall 44 |
Points | Russ Courtnall 73 |
Penalty minutes | Wendel Clark (271) |
Wins | Ken Wregget (22) |
Goals against average | Allan Bester (3.68) |
The 1986–87 Toronto Maple Leafs season was the team's 70th season competing in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Off-season
[edit]NHL Draft
[edit]Round | # | Player | Nationality | College/Junior/Club team |
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1 | 6 | Vincent Damphousse (C) | ![]() |
Laval Voisins (QMJHL) |
2 | 36 | Darryl Shannon (D) | ![]() |
Windsor Compuware Spitfires (OHL) |
3 | 48 | Sean Boland (D) | ![]() |
Toronto Marlboros (OHL) |
4 | 69 | Kent Hulst (C) | ![]() |
Windsor Compuware Spitfires (OHL) |
5 | 90 | Scott Taylor (D) | ![]() |
Kitchener Rangers (OHL) |
6 | 111 | Stephane Giguere (LW) | ![]() |
Saint-Jean Castors (QMJHL) |
7 | 132 | Dan Hie (C) | ![]() |
Ottawa 67's (OHL) |
8 | 153 | Steve Brennan (F) | ![]() |
New Preparatory School (USHS-MA) |
9 | 174 | Brian Bellefeuille (RW) | ![]() |
Canterbury School (USHS-CT) |
10 | 195 | Sean Davidson (RW) | ![]() |
Toronto Marlboros (OHL) |
11 | 216 | Mark Holick (RW) | ![]() |
Saskatoon Blades (WHL) |
12 | 237 | Brian Hoard (D) | ![]() |
Hamilton Steelhawks (OHL) |
S2 | 9 | Art Fitzgerald | ![]() |
Trinity College (NESCAC) |
Regular season
[edit]Francis "King" Clancy, former defenceman with Ottawa and Toronto, had to undergo surgery to remove his gall bladder. Unfortunately, infection from the gall bladder seeped into his body during surgery, causing him to go into septic shock. He died November 10, 1986.
Final standings
[edit]GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts | |
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St. Louis Blues | 80 | 32 | 33 | 15 | 281 | 293 | 79 |
Detroit Red Wings | 80 | 34 | 36 | 10 | 260 | 274 | 78 |
Chicago Blackhawks | 80 | 29 | 37 | 14 | 290 | 310 | 72 |
Toronto Maple Leafs | 80 | 32 | 42 | 6 | 286 | 319 | 70 |
Minnesota North Stars | 80 | 30 | 40 | 10 | 296 | 314 | 70 |
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against
Note: Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.
Record vs. opponents
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Vs. Campbell Conference[edit]
Vs. Wales Conference
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Schedule and results
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Legend: Win (2 points) Loss (0 points) Tie (1 point) |
Playoffs
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Series E W L GF GA
Toronto Maple Leafs 4 2 15 12 St. Louis Blues 2 4 12 15 Apr 8 Toronto Maple Leafs 1 3 at St. Louis Blues Apr 9 Toronto Maple Leafs 3 2 at St. Louis Blues 00:10:17 OT Apr 11 St. Louis Blues 5 3 at Toronto Maple Leafs Apr 12 St. Louis Blues 1 2 at Toronto Maple Leafs Apr 14 Toronto Maple Leafs 2 1 at St. Louis Blues Apr 16 St. Louis Blues 0 4 at Toronto Maple Leafs
Round 2 Series K W L GF GA
Detroit Red Wings 4 3 20 18 Toronto Maple Leafs 3 4 18 20 Apr 21 Toronto Maple Leafs 4 2 at Detroit Red Wings Apr 23 Toronto Maple Leafs 7 2 at Detroit Red Wings Apr 25 Detroit Red Wings 4 2 at Toronto Maple Leafs Apr 27 Detroit Red Wings 2 3 at Toronto Maple Leafs 00:09:31 OT Apr 29 Toronto Maple Leafs 0 3 at Detroit Red Wings May 1 Detroit Red Wings 4 2 at Toronto Maple Leafs May 3 Toronto Maple Leafs 0 3 at Detroit Red Wings
Detroit Red Wings win series 4 games to 3
Player statistics
[edit]Regular season
[edit]- Scoring
Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | +/- | PPG | SHG | GWG |
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Russ Courtnall | RW | 79 | 29 | 44 | 73 | 90 | -20 | 3 | 6 | 3 |
Rick Vaive | RW | 73 | 32 | 34 | 66 | 61 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 6 |
Steve Thomas | LW | 78 | 35 | 27 | 62 | 114 | -3 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
Wendel Clark | LW/D | 80 | 37 | 23 | 60 | 271 | -23 | 15 | 0 | 1 |
Gary Leeman | RW | 80 | 21 | 31 | 52 | 66 | -26 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
Tom Fergus | C | 57 | 21 | 28 | 49 | 57 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Vincent Damphousse | C | 80 | 21 | 25 | 46 | 26 | -6 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
Peter Ihnacak | C | 58 | 12 | 27 | 39 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
Todd Gill | D | 61 | 4 | 27 | 31 | 92 | -3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Al Iafrate | D | 80 | 9 | 21 | 30 | 55 | -18 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Mike Allison | LW | 71 | 7 | 16 | 23 | 66 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Rick Lanz | D | 44 | 2 | 19 | 21 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Borje Salming | D | 56 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 42 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Jeff Jackson | LW | 55 | 8 | 7 | 15 | 64 | -11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Miroslav Frycer | RW | 29 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 28 | -15 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Greg Terrion | LW | 67 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 6 | -5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Mark Osborne | LW | 16 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 12 | -1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Brad Smith | RW | 47 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 172 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Chris Kotsopoulos | D | 43 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 75 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Miroslav Ihnacak | LW | 34 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ken Yaremchuk | C | 20 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dan Daoust | C | 33 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Bill Root | D | 34 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 37 | -9 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Bob McGill | D | 56 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 103 | -2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ken Wregget | G | 56 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Daryl Evans | LW | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | -2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Ted Fauss | D | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Terry Johnson | D | 48 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 104 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jim Benning | D | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tim Bernhardt | G | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Allan Bester | G | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jerry Dupont | D | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | -5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Val James | LW | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Derek Laxdal | RW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | -1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kevin Maguire | RW | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 74 | -6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Goaltending
Player | MIN | GP | W | L | T | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV | SV% |
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Ken Wregget | 3026 | 56 | 22 | 28 | 3 | 200 | 3.97 | 0 | 1598 | 1398 | .875 |
Allan Bester | 1808 | 36 | 10 | 14 | 3 | 110 | 3.65 | 2 | 991 | 881 | .889 |
Tim Bernhardt | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9.00 | 0 | 7 | 4 | .571 |
Team: | 4854 | 80 | 32 | 42 | 6 | 313 | 3.87 | 2 | 2596 | 2283 | .879 |
Playoffs
[edit]- Scoring
Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | PPG | SHG | GWG |
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Wendel Clark | LW/D | 13 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Mike Allison | LW | 13 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Dan Daoust | C | 13 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Russ Courtnall | RW | 13 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Rick Vaive | RW | 13 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Peter Ihnacak | C | 13 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Vincent Damphousse | C | 12 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Steve Thomas | LW | 13 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Todd Gill | D | 13 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Al Iafrate | D | 13 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Rick Lanz | D | 13 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Mark Osborne | LW | 9 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Borje Salming | D | 13 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brad Smith | RW | 11 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Greg Terrion | LW | 13 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bill Root | D | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tom Fergus | C | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gary Leeman | RW | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ken Wregget | G | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Allan Bester | G | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Daryl Evans | LW | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Miroslav Ihnacak | LW | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wes Jarvis | C | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Terry Johnson | D | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chris Kotsopoulos | D | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kevin Maguire | RW | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bob McGill | D | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ken Yaremchuk | C | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Goaltending
Player | MIN | GP | W | L | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV | SV% |
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Ken Wregget | 761 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 29 | 2.29 | 1 | 368 | 339 | .921 |
Allan Bester | 39 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.54 | 0 | 17 | 16 | .941 |
Team: | 800 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 30 | 2.25 | 1 | 385 | 355 | .922 |
- Pos = Position; GPI = Games played in; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes; +/- = Plus/minus; PPG = Power-play goals; SHG = Short-handed goals; GWG = Game-winning goals
- Min, TOI = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T,T/OT = Ties; OTL = Overtime losses; GA = Goals-against; GAA = Goals-against average; SO = Shutouts; SA = Shots against; SV = Shots saved; SV% = Save percentage;
Awards and records
[edit]- Rick Vaive, Molson Cup (Most game star selections for Toronto Maple Leafs)
Transactions
[edit]The Maple Leafs have been involved in the following transactions during the 1986–87 season.
Trades
[edit]August 18, 1986 | To New York Rangers Walt Poddubny |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Mike Allison |
September 6, 1986 | To Chicago Blackhawks FA signing of Gary Nylund |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Jerry Dupont Ken Yaremchuk 4th round pick in 1987 – Joe Sacco |
October 2, 1986 | To Vancouver Canucks Brad Maxwell |
To Toronto Maple Leafs 5th round pick in 1988 – Len Esau |
October 3, 1986 | To Calgary Flames Jim Korn |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Terry Johnson |
December 2, 1986 | To Vancouver Canucks Jim Benning Dan Hodgson |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Rick Lanz |
February 4, 1987 | To Philadelphia Flyers 5th round pick in 1989 – Pat MacLeod |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Mike Stothers |
March 5, 1987 | To New York Rangers Jeff Jackson 3rd round pick in 1989 – Rob Zamuner |
To Toronto Maple Leafs Mark Osborne |
Free agents
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Dinger, Ralph, ed. (2011). The National Hockey League Official Guide & Record Book 2012. Dan Diamond & Associates. p. 153. ISBN 9781894801225.
- ^ "All-Time NHL Results". NHL.com. Retrieved August 25, 2023.
- ^ "1986-87 Toronto Maple Leafs Schedule". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved April 4, 2025.
- ^ "1986-87 Toronto Maple Leafs Statistics - Hockey-Reference.com". hockey-reference.com. Retrieved May 28, 2009.