Washington Capitals vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Friday, April 1, 1983 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Washington Capitals 8–7 on Friday, April 1, 1983 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Capitals 34–25.
Tom Rowe scored twice, John Ogrodnick scored twice, Ivan Boldirev scored twice and Ken Houston scored twice. Bobby Carpenter, Alan Haworth, Gaetan Duchesne, Mike Blaisdell, Glen Currie, Scott Stevens and Reed Larson also scored.
Corrado Micalef made 18 saves on 25 shots for the win; Al Jensen stopped 26 of 34.
Scoring
1st period
Bobby Carpenter (31)Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (40)1–014:13 WSH
Alan Haworth (23)Dennis Maruk (48), Craig Laughlin (27)2–015:50 WSH
Tom Rowe (5)Unassisted2–116:18 DET
2nd period
Gaetan Duchesne (18)Rod Langway (28), Bobby Gould (17)3–104:41 WSH
Mike Blaisdell (18)Paul Woods (20), Murray Craven (7)3–212:43 DET
John Ogrodnick (38)Randy Ladouceur (3), Tom Rowe (7)3–313:40 DET
Glen Currie (11)Bobby Gould (18), Gaetan Duchesne (19)4–314:04 WSH
Scott Stevens (9)Unassisted5–314:36 WSH
Ivan Boldirev (17)Reed Larson (51), Tom Rowe (8)5–417:13 DET · - Ivan Boldirev (18)Mark Osborne (24), Danny Gare (35)5–518:18 DET
3rd period
Reed Larson (22)John Ogrodnick (43), Greg Smith (26)5–605:24 DET · 
Ken Houston (24)Randy Holt (8), Rod Langway (29)6–611:13 WSH- Ken Houston (25)Dennis Maruk (49), Doug Jarvis (22)7–613:48 WSH
- John Ogrodnick (39)Tom Rowe (9)7–715:50 DET
- Tom Rowe (6)Ivan Boldirev (37), Randy Ladouceur (4)7–819:29 DET
Team stats
WSHDET
2534
0%0%
0/42/6
1510
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:48 into the first period
Randy Holt · high sticking5 min - 3:36 into the first period
Greg Smith · holding2 min - 5:29 into the first periodRandy Ladouceur · holding2 min
- 12:10 into the first periodKen Houston · interference2 min
- 18:21 into the first periodDwight Foster · tripping2 min
- 1:40 into the second periodJohn Barrett · holding2 min
- 5:17 into the second periodReed Larson · tripping2 min
- 15:44 into the second periodTimo Blomqvist · interference2 min
- 19:47 into the second periodBobby Gould · hooking2 min
- 4:43 into the third periodScott Stevens · interference2 min
- 7:03 into the third periodBrian Engblom · hooking2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 14Gaetan DuchesneL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +4 | 2 | – |
| 19Ken HoustonR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 21Dennis MarukC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 5Rod LangwayD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 10Bobby CarpenterC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 5 | – |
| 12Glen CurrieC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +4 | 1 | – |
| 15Alan HaworthC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 18Craig LaughlinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 25Doug JarvisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 4Randy HoltD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Chris ValentineC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 29Ted BulleyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Brian EngblomD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Timo BlomqvistD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Greg ThebergeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pat RigginG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Al JensenG | L | 34 | 8 | .765 |
Detroit Red Wings
| 8Tom RoweR | 2 | 3 | 5 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 12Ivan BoldirevC | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 2 | 1 | 3 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 19Randy LadouceurD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 18Danny GareR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 21Mike BlaisdellR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 22Murray CravenL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Mark OsborneL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 5Greg SmithD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Stan WeirC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 16Kelly KisioC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 20Dwight FosterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Ken SolheimL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Jim SchoenfeldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 3John BarrettD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 4Colin CampbellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Greg StefanG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Corrado MicalefG | W | 25 | 7 | .720 |