Montréal Canadiens vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Friday, November 27, 1981 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–2 on Friday, November 27, 1981 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Canadiens 30–29.
Goals came from Ryan Walter, Greg Theberge, Larry Robinson, Pierre Larouche, Chris Valentine, Gaetan Duchesne and Bobby Gould.
Mike Palmateer made 27 saves on 29 shots for the win; Richard Sevigny stopped 25 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Ryan Walter (10)Dennis Maruk (14), Chris Valentine (1)0–101:47 WSH
2nd period
Greg Theberge (4)Chris Valentine (2), Dennis Maruk (15)0–206:10 WSH · 
Larry Robinson (3)Gaston Gingras (1), Guy Lafleur (21)1–207:22 MTL · 
Pierre Larouche (6)Guy Lafleur (22)2–214:02 MTL
Chris Valentine (2)Mike Gartner (14), Mike Palmateer (1)2–319:31 WSH
3rd period
Gaetan Duchesne (5)Bobby Gould (1), Tim Tookey (4)2–402:30 WSH
Bobby Gould (4)Ryan Walter (12)2–511:47 WSH
Team stats
MTLWSH
2930
0%0%
1/51/6
2018
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:20 into the first period
Rick Green · holding2 min - 7:49 into the first period
Larry Robinson · hooking2 min - 9:11 into the first periodGilbert Delorme · slashing2 min
- 9:11 into the first periodChris Valentine · slashing2 min
- 13:54 into the first periodSteve Shutt · elbowing2 min
- 17:10 into the first periodRod Langway · slashing2 min
- 17:10 into the first periodRandy Holt · slashing2 min
- 18:34 into the first periodKeith Acton · hooking2 min
- 4:10 into the second periodMark Hunter · hooking2 min
- 7:07 into the second periodGuy Lapointe · roughing2 min
- 7:07 into the second periodRandy Holt · elbowing2 min
- 7:07 into the second periodRandy Holt · hooking2 min
- 7:07 into the second periodTerry Murray · roughing2 min
- 3:52 into the third periodRyan Walter · tripping2 min
- 7:41 into the third periodMark Hunter · elbowing2 min
- 9:24 into the third periodGuy Lapointe · roughing2 min
- 9:24 into the third periodWes Jarvis · roughing2 min
- 13:07 into the third periodDoug Risebrough · hooking2 min
- 18:00 into the third periodChris Valentine · hooking2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 10Guy LafleurR | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 28Pierre LaroucheC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 2Gaston GingrasD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −4 | 6 | – |
| 19Larry RobinsonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 6Pierre MondouC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 8Doug RisebroughC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 12Keith ActonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 14Mario TremblayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 20Mark HunterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 22Steve ShuttL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 31Mark NapierR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Brian EngblomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Guy LapointeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 17Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Gilbert DelormeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32Denis HerronG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Richard SevignyG | L | 30 | 5 | .833 |
Washington Capitals
| 28Chris ValentineC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 9Ryan WalterC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 21Dennis MarukC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 8Tim TookeyC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 11Mike GartnerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 14Gaetan DuchesneL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 20Greg ThebergeD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 10Bobby CarpenterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 15Wes JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 3Howard WalkerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 4Randy HoltD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Rick GreenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 6Darren VeitchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 17Timo BlomqvistD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25Terry MurrayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Mike PalmateerG | W | 29 | 2 | .931 |
| 35Al JensenG | 0 | 0 | – |