Washington Capitals vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Wednesday, December 26, 1979 · Maple Leaf Gardens
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 8–2 on Wednesday, December 26, 1979 at Maple Leaf Gardens. The Capitals outshot the Maple Leafs 31–27.
Guy Charron scored a hat trick and Paul Mulvey scored twice. Mike Gartner, Rolf Edberg, Lanny McDonald, Robert Picard and Borje Salming also scored.
Rollie Boutin made 25 saves on 27 shots for the win; Paul Harrison stopped 20 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Guy Charron (5)Mike Kaszycki (10), Tom Rowe (11)1–005:23 WSH
Mike Gartner (10)Ryan Walter (14), Robert Picard (17)2–007:22 WSH
Paul Mulvey (6)Mike Gartner (14), Peter Scamurra (5)3–012:19 WSH
Rolf Edberg (9)Ryan Walter (15)4–014:54 WSH ·
2nd period
Lanny McDonald (15)Darryl Sittler (16), Dave Williams (11)4–111:12 TOR- Guy Charron (6)Robert Picard (18), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (15)5–114:39 WSH ·
3rd period
Robert Picard (3)Ryan Walter (16), Paul Mulvey (6)6–102:18 WSH
Borje Salming (9)Dave Williams (12)6–208:47 TOR- Guy Charron (7)Mike Kaszycki (11), Robert Picard (19)7–213:22 WSH ·
- Paul Mulvey (7)Ryan Walter (17), Mike Gartner (15)8–219:35 WSH
Team stats
WSHTOR
3127
0%0%
2/50/1
210
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:51 into the first period
Carl Brewer · holding2 min - 13:14 into the first period
Paul MacKinnon · holding2 min - 13:51 into the second periodBorje Salming · holding2 min
- 5:33 into the third periodJerry Butler · hooking2 min
- 11:58 into the third periodDan Maloney · roughing2 min
- 13:10 into the third periodPaul Harrison · roughing2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 9Ryan WalterC | 0 | 4 | 4 | +5 | 1 | – |
| 24Robert PicardD | 1 | 3 | 4 | +4 | 3 | – |
| 11Mike GartnerR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +4 | 5 | – |
| 15Guy CharronC | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 27Paul MulveyL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +4 | 4 | – |
| 20Mike KaszyckiC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 10Rolf EdbergC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Tom RoweR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 3Peter ScamurraD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8Mark LofthouseR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 18Greg PolisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Wes JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 4Leif SvenssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 19Paul MacKinnonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 29Pierre BouchardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rollie BoutinG | W | 27 | 2 | .926 |
| 31Gary InnessG | 0 | 0 | – |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 22Dave WilliamsL | 0 | 2 | 2 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 7Lanny McDonaldR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 27Darryl SittlerC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 6Ron EllisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 8Rocky SaganiukR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 9Dan MaloneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 10John AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 11Walt McKechnieC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 12Laurie BoschmanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Jerry ButlerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Paul GardnerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Terry MartinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Ian TurnbullD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 6 | – |
| 4Greg HothamD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 26Dave BurrowsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 0 | – |
| 28Carl BrewerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Mike PalmateerG | 4 | 1 | .750 | |
| 30Paul HarrisonG | L | 27 | 7 | .741 |