Detroit Red Wings vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Sunday, November 6, 1983 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Detroit Red Wings 3–2 on Sunday, November 6, 1983 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Red Wings 34–21.
Goals came from Dave Christian, Eddie Johnstone, Bobby Carpenter, Ron Duguay and Rod Langway.
Al Jensen made 19 saves on 21 shots for the win; Eddie Mio stopped 26 of 29.
Scoring
1st period
Dave Christian (4)Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (11), Chris Valentine (3)0–104:38 WSH
Eddie Johnstone (5)John Barrett (3)1–114:02 DET
2nd period
Bobby Carpenter (2)Craig Laughlin (5), Larry Murphy (4)1–208:37 WSH
Ron Duguay (6)Steve Yzerman (8)2–217:19 DET
3rd period
Rod Langway (3)Unassisted2–300:14 WSH ·
Team stats
DETWSH
2134
0%0%
0/31/5
2927
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 7:43 into the first period
Kelly Kisio · tripping2 min - 14:10 into the first periodAndre St. Laurent · high sticking2 min
- 16:55 into the first period
Rod Langway · interference2 min - 17:04 into the first periodBrad Park · hooking2 min
- 9:14 into the second periodBrad Park · hooking2 min
- 10:03 into the second periodPaul Woods · roughing2 min
- 10:03 into the second periodMike Gartner · roughing2 min
- 11:14 into the second periodReed Larson · charging2 min
- 11:14 into the second periodChris Valentine · charging2 min
- 11:32 into the second periodDave Shand · hooking2 min
- 14:27 into the second periodBarry Melrose · fighting5 min
- 14:27 into the second periodBobby Gould · fighting5 min
- 18:17 into the second periodBob Manno · tripping2 min
- 1:16 into the third periodReed Larson · fighting5 min
- 1:16 into the third periodScott Stevens · fighting5 min
- 2:38 into the third periodGlen Currie · hooking2 min
- 11:18 into the third periodTed Nolan · fighting5 min
- 11:18 into the third periodScott Stevens · fighting5 min
- 20:00 into the third periodScott Stevens · delaying game2 min
Season series
Detroit Red Wings
| 10Ron DuguayC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 17Eddie JohnstoneR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Steve YzermanC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 3John BarrettD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 8Ted NolanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Lane LambertR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 15Paul WoodsC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 16Kelly KisioC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Danny GareR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 20Dwight FosterR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 34Andre St. LaurentC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Greg SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Brad ParkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Bob MannoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Barry MelroseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 28Reed LarsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 29Randy LadouceurD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Greg StefanG | 5 | 0 | 1.000 | |
| 41Eddie MioG | L | 29 | 3 | .897 |
Washington Capitals
| 10Bobby CarpenterC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 18Craig LaughlinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 27Dave ChristianR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Chris ValentineC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Rod LangwayD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 8Larry MurphyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Mike GartnerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 12Glen CurrieC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Gaetan DuchesneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 15Alan HaworthC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 22Greg AdamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 25Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Darren VeitchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 17Timo BlomqvistD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Dave ShandD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pat RigginG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Al JensenG | W | 21 | 2 | .905 |