PATRIK SUNDSTROM

april 22, 1988 new jersey 10, washington 4

MARK JOHNSON COULD ONLY shake his head and smile as he watched reporters crowd around his linemate. “I score four goals in a playoff game and no one is going to remember,” Johnson said.

He had a point. Sundstrom had a game for the ages, breaking Wayne Gretzky’s record of seven points in a playoff game with three goals and five assists in a Game 3 rout of the Capitals in the Patrick Division final. Gretzky scored seven points in a playoff game three times. In 1989, Mario Lemieux had eight points against the Flyers and continues to share the record with Sundstrom.