Washington Capitals vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Sunday, October 9, 1983 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Washington Capitals 5–2 on Sunday, October 9, 1983 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Capitals 40–15.
Dave Andreychuk scored twice and Gilbert Perreault scored twice. Mike Gartner, Bobby Gould and Dale McCourt also scored.
Tom Barrasso made 13 saves on 15 shots for the win; Pat Riggin stopped 35 of 40.
Scoring
1st period
Mike Gartner (1)Brian Engblom (1), Dave Christian (3)1–002:44 WSH
Dave Andreychuk (2)Bill Hajt (1)1–109:33 BUF
Bobby Gould (1)Glen Currie (1)2–109:42 WSH
2nd period
Gilbert Perreault (2)Bill Hajt (2)2–200:42 BUF- Gilbert Perreault (3)Mike Ramsey (2)2–313:20 BUF
- Dave Andreychuk (3)Real Cloutier (1), Dale McCourt (1)2–414:26 BUF ·
3rd period
Dale McCourt (1)Paul Cyr (1)2–505:14 BUF
Team stats
WSHBUF
1540
0%0%
0/21/4
3016
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 14:10 into the first period
Mike Gartner · interference2 min - 4:43 into the second periodRod Langway · hooking2 min
- 8:19 into the second period
Mike Moller · slashing2 min - 8:19 into the second periodScott Stevens · slashing2 min
- 14:17 into the second periodDave Shand · holding2 min
- 6:43 into the third periodSean Mckenna · fighting5 min
- 6:43 into the third periodLarry Playfair · fighting5 min
- 6:43 into the third periodGreg Adams · roughing2 min
- 6:43 into the third periodGreg Adams · fighting5 min
- 6:43 into the third periodDave Shand · fighting5 min
- 6:43 into the third periodDave Shand · game misconduct10 min
- 7:35 into the third periodTom Barrasso · tripping2 min
- 15:25 into the third periodTom Barrasso · tripping2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 11Mike GartnerR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 12Glen CurrieC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Dave ChristianR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Brian EngblomD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Bobby CarpenterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 14Gaetan DuchesneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 15Alan HaworthC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Craig LaughlinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 22Greg AdamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Bryan EricksonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Paul MacKinnonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 5Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 20Greg ThebergeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Dave ShandD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pat RigginG | L | 40 | 5 | .875 |
| 35Al JensenG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 7Dale McCourtC | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Gilbert PerreaultC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 24Bill HajtD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 8Real CloutierR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Paul CyrL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Mike RamseyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 9Gilles HamelL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 10Craig RamsayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 12Sean MckennaR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 14Mike MollerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Ric SeilingR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 17Mike FolignoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Brent PetersonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 3Hannu VirtaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 6Phil HousleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 7 | – |
| 19Jim WiemerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 27Larry PlayfairD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28Bob SauveG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Tom BarrassoG | W | 15 | 2 | .867 |