New Jersey Devils vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Thursday, December 1, 1983 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the New Jersey Devils 8–4 on Thursday, December 1, 1983 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Devils 31–21.
Dave Christian scored twice and Chris Valentine scored twice. Doug Jarvis, Rick Meagher, Bob MacMillan, Jeff Larmer, Bengt-Ake Gustafsson, Alan Haworth, Glen Currie and Aaron Broten also scored.
Al Jensen made 17 saves on 21 shots for the win; Ron Low stopped 23 of 31.
Scoring
1st period
Doug Jarvis (4)Dave Shand (8), Bobby Carpenter (10)0–101:38 WSH
Rick Meagher (1)Joe Cirella (9)1–105:56 NJD · 
Bob MacMillan (3)Unassisted2–106:54 NJD
Dave Christian (8)Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (20), Larry Murphy (12)2–209:07 WSH · 
Jeff Larmer (5)Aaron Broten (6)3–212:07 NJD
Chris Valentine (4)Craig Laughlin (7)3–315:03 WSH
2nd period
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (11)Dave Christian (19)3–408:13 WSH- Chris Valentine (5)Larry Murphy (13), Gary McAdam (1)3–513:51 WSH
3rd period
Alan Haworth (9)Dave Christian (20), Scott Stevens (3)3–600:57 WSH
Glen Currie (4)Timo Blomqvist (3), Bobby Carpenter (11)3–707:39 WSH
Aaron Broten (7)Pat Verbeek (6), Joe Cirella (10)4–715:44 NJD · - Dave Christian (9)Alan Haworth (7), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (21)4–817:47 WSH
Team stats
NJDWSH
2131
0%0%
2/41/6
2925
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 3:58 into the first period
Glen Currie · interference2 min - 8:27 into the first period
Pat Verbeek · hooking2 min - 8:27 into the first periodDave Cameron · roughing2 min
- 8:27 into the first periodAlan Haworth · roughing2 min
- 9:34 into the first periodJoe Cirella · hooking2 min
- 12:27 into the first periodBob Lorimer · holding2 min
- 15:38 into the first periodMel Bridgman · elbowing2 min
- 15:38 into the first periodMel Bridgman · roughing2 min
- 15:38 into the first periodBobby Gould · high sticking2 min
- 15:38 into the first periodBobby Gould · roughing2 min
- 1:14 into the second periodMel Bridgman · high sticking2 min
- 1:14 into the second periodMel Bridgman · roughing2 min
- 1:14 into the second periodGaetan Duchesne · roughing2 min
- 1:21 into the second periodRick Meagher · hooking2 min
- 9:03 into the second periodRod Langway · holding2 min
- 11:16 into the second periodBob Lorimer · fighting5 min
- 11:16 into the second periodScott Stevens · fighting5 min
- 5:30 into the third periodGlen Currie · holding2 min
- 12:45 into the third periodPat Verbeek · hooking2 min
- 14:19 into the third periodDave Shand · holding2 min
- 18:28 into the third periodJoe Cirella · roughing2 min
- 18:28 into the third periodMike Gartner · roughing2 min
- 19:37 into the third periodMike Antonovich · slashing2 min
- 19:37 into the third periodCraig Laughlin · slashing2 min
Season series
New Jersey Devils
| 24Aaron BrotenC | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 2Joe CirellaD | 0 | 2 | 2 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 7Jeff LarmerL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 11Bob MacMillanR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 12Pat VerbeekR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 16Rick MeagherC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 10Dave CameronC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 15John MacLeanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 17Paul GagneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 3 | – |
| 18Mel BridgmanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 20Hector MariniR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 23Mike AntonovichC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 29Jan LudvigR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Bob LorimerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 5Phil RussellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 0 | – |
| 6Rob PalmerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 21Bob HoffmeyerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Mike KitchenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glenn ReschG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Ron LowG | L | 31 | 8 | .742 |
Washington Capitals
| 27Dave ChristianR | 2 | 2 | 4 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 4 | – |
| 10Bobby CarpenterC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 15Alan HaworthC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 5 | – |
| 28Chris ValentineC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 8Larry MurphyD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 12Glen CurrieC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 18Craig LaughlinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 20Gary McAdamR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 25Doug JarvisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 17Timo BlomqvistD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Dave ShandD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 0 | – |
| 11Mike GartnerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Gaetan DuchesneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 2Greg ThebergeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pat RigginG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Al JensenG | W | 21 | 4 | .809 |