Edmonton Oilers vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Wednesday, December 17, 1980 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Edmonton Oilers 5–2 on Wednesday, December 17, 1980 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Oilers 40–22.
Goals came from Don Murdoch, Jean Pronovost, Dave Hunter, Mike Gartner, Rick Green, Bengt-Ake Gustafsson and Guy Charron.
Mike Palmateer made 20 saves on 22 shots for the win; Ron Low stopped 35 of 39.
Scoring
1st period
Don Murdoch (7)Pat Price (8), Risto Siltanen (11)1–001:00 EDM · 
Jean Pronovost (10)Guy Charron (9), Bob Kelly (16)1–105:36 WSH
Dave Hunter (5)Stan Weir (9), Curt Brackenbury (3)2–110:19 EDM
Mike Gartner (19)Ryan Walter (17), James McTaggart (1)2–217:10 WSH
2nd period
Rick Green (3)Mike Gartner (18)2–308:03 WSH
3rd period
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (10)Unassisted2–401:49 WSH
Guy Charron (2)Mike Palmateer (4)2–519:35 WSH ·
Team stats
EDMWSH
2240
0%0%
1/20/4
1410
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:27 into the first period
Rick Green · holding2 min - 1:46 into the first period
Doug Hicks · boarding2 min - 1:46 into the first periodDennis Maruk · hooking2 min
- 3:34 into the first periodJari Kurri · tripping2 min
- 7:29 into the first periodDon Murdoch · interference2 min
- 7:29 into the first periodRyan Walter · interference2 min
- 18:45 into the first periodPaul Coffey · hooking2 min
- 16:39 into the second periodLee Fogolin · holding2 min
- 2:19 into the third periodStan Weir · holding2 min
- 2:19 into the third periodBob Kelly · roughing2 min
- 5:52 into the third periodLee Fogolin · holding2 min
- 17:33 into the third periodRyan Walter · holding2 min
Season series
Edmonton Oilers
| 12Dave HunterL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 15Curt BrackenburyR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 21Stan WeirC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 47Don MurdochR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 8Risto SiltanenD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 26Pat PriceD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 9Glenn AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 10Matti HagmanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 11Mark MessierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 17Jari KurriR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Tom RoulstonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 27Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 99Wayne GretzkyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 1 | – |
| 2Lee FogolinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 4Kevin LoweD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Doug HicksD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 7Paul CoffeyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Ron LowG | L | 39 | 4 | .897 |
| 31Eddie MioG | 0 | 0 | – |
Washington Capitals
| 11Mike GartnerR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 9 | – |
| 15Guy CharronC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 9Ryan WalterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +4 | 1 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +5 | 7 | – |
| 22Jean PronovostR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 24Bob KellyL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4James McTaggartD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 12Al HangslebenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Wes JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Tim TookeyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Dennis MarukC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 23Dennis VervergaertR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Paul MulveyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 2Pat RibbleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 3Howard WalkerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 7Yvon LabreD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Mike PalmateerG | W | 22 | 2 | .909 |
| 35Wayne StephensonG | 0 | 0 | – |