⚔️ Away Sabres 10-4-1
6–3
Final
🐳 Home Whalers 8-7-1
Goals 1st2nd3rdF
⚔️ BUF 1326
🐳 HFD 1203

Sabres at Whalers

Sabres beat Whalers 6–3 on November 8, 1989.

🗓 🏒 1989-90 🔁 Sabres lead the season series 2–1
⚔️ Head-to-head

⭐ Three stars

Best games by the box score
1st star ⚔️ BUF
Phil Housley
1 G, 2 A
4 shots · +3
2nd star ⚔️ BUF
Pierre Turgeon
1 G, 2 A
3 shots · +2
3rd star ⚔️ BUF
Christian Ruuttu
1 G, 1 A
3 shots · +3

🚨 Scoring

9 goals · in order
1st period
⚔️ Rick Vaive Go-ahead 1st · 00:09
Assists: Alexander Mogilny, Phil Housley · beat Mike Liut
1–0
🐳 Pat Verbeek Tying 1st · 03:12
Unassisted · beat Daren Puppa
1–1
2nd period
⚔️ Phil Housley Go-ahead 2nd · 00:18
Assists: Christian Ruuttu, Alexander Mogilny · beat Mike Liut
2–1
⚔️ Mike Foligno 2nd · 00:43
Assists: Pierre Turgeon, Phil Housley · beat Mike Liut
3–1
🐳 Kevin Dineen PP 2nd · 06:56
Assists: Dave Babych · beat Daren Puppa
3–2
⚔️ Doug Bodger PP 2nd · 08:45
Assists: Rick Vaive, Pierre Turgeon · beat Mike Liut
4–2
🐳 Paul Macdermid PP 2nd · 17:28
Assists: Ron Francis, Pat Verbeek · beat Daren Puppa
4–3
3rd period
⚔️ Pierre Turgeon 3rd · 10:32
Assists: Dean Kennedy · beat Mike Liut
5–3
⚔️ Christian Ruuttu SH Empty net 3rd · 18:42
Assists: Dave Snuggerud
6–3

📊 Team stats

Away left · home right
⚔️BUF HFD🐳
28 Shots on goal 29
1/5 Power play (goals / chances) 2/5
28 Penalty minutes 28
BUF shooting 21.4% (6/28) HFD shooting 10.3% (3/29)

🥅 Goaltending

Saves, shots faced and save percentage
⚔️Sabres
Daren Puppa
0/3
.000 SV% · 3 GA · 60:00 TOI
🐳Whalers
Mike Liut
0/5
.000 SV% · 5 GA · 59:46 TOI

🔮 Period by period

AI
After 1st — 1–1
Sabres
Sabres — tied after 1st: 6-0 (100% win rate, 6 games)
Whalers
Whalers — tied after 1st: 2-2 (50% win rate, 4 games)
After 2nd — 4–3
Sabres
Sabres — leading by 1 goal after 2nd: 2-0 (100% win rate, 2 games)
Whalers
Whalers — trailing by 1 goal after 2nd: 0-4-1 (0% win rate, 5 games)

⚔️ Last meetings

All →
Sabres lead the season series 2–1
Oct 181989 ⚔️BUF @ 🐳HFD 1–2 Oct 131989 🐳HFD @ ⚔️BUF 1–4 Mar 281989 🐳HFD @ ⚔️BUF 2–4 Mar 161989 ⚔️BUF @ 🐳HFD 6–1 Feb 91989 ⚔️BUF @ 🐳HFD 2–5
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❓ BUF vs HFD, answered

Who won Sabres vs Whalers on November 8, 1989?

Sabres won 6–3. The final score was Sabres 6, Whalers 3.

Who scored for Sabres?

Christian Ruuttu, Doug Bodger, Mike Foligno, Phil Housley, Pierre Turgeon, Rick Vaive.

Who scored for Whalers?

Kevin Dineen, Pat Verbeek, Paul Macdermid.

How did the Sabres goalie play?

Daren Puppa made 0 saves on 3 shots (.000 save percentage).

How did the Whalers goalie play?

Mike Liut made 0 saves on 5 shots (.000 save percentage).

What is the Sabres vs Whalers season series?

Sabres lead the season series 2–1 after 3 games.

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🧭 Around this game

Before and after, for both teams
⚔️ Sabres
BeforeNov 5 👑LAK @ ⚔️BUF 3–5 AfterNov 10 🐋VAN @ ⚔️BUF 2–4
🐳 Whalers
BeforeNov 4 👑LAK @ 🐳HFD 3–6 AfterNov 10 🐳HFD @ ✈️WIN 4–2
Also on November 8
🇨🇦MTL 3–2 🗽NYR ⚜️QUE 3–6 😈NJD 🐋VAN 2–3 ✈️WIN 🔥CGY 5–4 👑LAK
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