Oilers 12 - Blackhawks 9!

On this day in 1985, the Edmonton Oilers beat the Chicago Blackhawks 12-9, in Chicago, in the highest scoring game in modern NHL history. Wayne Gretzky does not score a goal, but has a record 7 assists, one of the three times in his career he accomplished that feat. Jari Kurri scores a hat trick, while Glenn Anderson joins the line on this night, and scored 3 goals and 3 assists.

Here's the game summary:

First Period
1 - EDM : Glenn Anderson 21 (Wayne Gretzky, Randy Gregg) (EV) 1:35
2 - EDM : Dave Lumley 5 (Billy Carroll, Kevin Lowe) (EV) 3:19
3 - EDM : Dave Semenko 5 (Craig MacTavish, Mark Napier) (EV) 4:58
4 - EDM : Marty McSorley 4 (Wayne Gretzky, Don Jackson) (EV) 13:24
Second Period
10 - CHI : Bill Watson 4 (Ken Yaremchuk, Jerry Dupont) (EV) 7:11
11 - CHI : Troy Murray 14 (Behn Wilson, Keith Brown) (PP) 9:36
12 - CHI : Jack O'Callahan 1 (Jerry Dupont, Troy Murray) (EV) 11:36
13 - EDM : Jari Kurri 20 (Wayne Gretzky, Glenn Anderson) (EV) 14:52
14 - CHI : Keith Brown 3 (Ed Olczyk) (EV) 16:07
15 - EDM : Marty McSorley 5 (Lee Fogolin Jr., Kevin McClelland) (EV) 18:58
16 - EDM : Glenn Anderson 23 (Wayne Gretzky, Paul Coffey) (EV) 19:50
5 - EDM : Glenn Anderson 22 (Don Jackson, Wayne Gretzky) (EV) 1:20
6 - EDM : Kevin McClelland 5 (Marty McSorley, Raimo Summanen) (EV) 3:08
7 - CHI : Denis Savard 15 (Steve Larmer, Al Secord) (PP) 5:38
8 - EDM : Lee Fogolin Jr. 2 (Kevin McClelland, Raimo Summanen) (EV) 6:11
9 - CHI : Curt Fraser 14 (Troy Murray, Doug Wilson) (EV) 6:38

Third Period
17 - CHI : Troy Murray 15 (Ed Olczyk, Keith Brown) (PP) 13:22
18 - EDM : Jari Kurri 21 (Wayne Gretzky, Glenn Anderson) (EV) 15:34
19 - CHI : Ken Yaremchuk 5 (Bill Gardner, Behn Wilson) (EV) 17:59
20 - EDM : Jari Kurri 22 (Wayne Gretzky, Glenn Anderson) (EV) 19:24
21 - CHI : Ken Yaremchuk 6 (Tom Lysiak, Bill Gardner) (EV) 19:37

Even though they scored 12 times, the Oilers were 0 for 1 on the power play. The Hawks were much more lethal at 3 for 4.

The Oilers fired 44 shots at goalies Murray Bannerman and Bob Sauve. The Hawks fired 46 shots on Edmonton's two goalies, Grant Fuhr and Andy Moog.

By The Way 1: The Minnesota North Stars were also in a scoring mood that night. Brian Bellows scored four goals and Scott Bjugstad notched three goals, both registering their first career hat tricks as the Minnesota North Stars' dumped Detroit 10-2.

By The Way 2: The game summary of this game came from the Hockey Summary Project website where you can find an amazing collection of summaries of NHL games throughout the years. It is a work in progress, and I'm sure they're looking for a hand. If you have access to game summaries you may wish to contact them.