Chicago Blackhawks New York Rangers Mar. 22, 1987 Highlights

The storyline of this game from a Chicago perspective is not the Rangers' 5-3 home-ice win. Even before the lifeless four-game knockout at the hands of Detroit in the 1987 playoffs, one of the occurrences that may have helped to finally convince Hawks management that a shakeup in personnel was needed was this late-season tilt, in which Denis Savard was cheap-shotted and injured by nondescript Jeff Jackson, who subsequently managed to finish the game without so much as bleeding (though Marc Bergevin merits an honorable mention). Soon-to-be ex-referee Ron Fournier contributes one of his usual substandard performances, and general manager/interim coach Phil Esposito's charges clinch a berth in the 1987 playoffs.