Toronto Maple Leafs vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Friday, January 27, 1984 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6–1 on Friday, January 27, 1984 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Maple Leafs 41–22.
Bryan Erickson scored twice. Rick Vaive, Bengt-Ake Gustafsson, Darren Veitch, Alan Haworth and Dave Christian also scored.
Pat Riggin made 21 saves on 22 shots for the win; Mike Palmateer stopped 35 of 41.
Scoring
1st period
Rick Vaive (40)Stew Gavin (10)1–005:52 TOR
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (26)Bobby Carpenter (24), Mike Gartner (28)1–108:13 WSH · 
Bryan Erickson (2)Unassisted1–217:41 WSH
2nd period
Darren Veitch (4)Bobby Gould (7), Glen Currie (14)1–302:47 WSH
3rd period
Alan Haworth (14)Bobby Carpenter (25), Mike Gartner (29)1–414:37 WSH
Dave Christian (21)Craig Laughlin (17), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (29)1–517:53 WSH- Bryan Erickson (3)Doug Jarvis (20), Timo Blomqvist (12)1–619:59 WSH ·
Team stats
TORWSH
2241
0%0%
0/22/6
146
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:32 into the first period
Borje Salming · hooking2 min - 3:33 into the first periodMike Palmateer · slashing2 min
- 6:24 into the first periodBorje Salming · interference2 min
- 11:49 into the second periodBorje Salming · high sticking2 min
- 14:40 into the second period
Timo Blomqvist · hooking2 min - 17:22 into the second periodCraig Laughlin · hooking2 min
- 0:54 into the third periodGary Leeman · high sticking2 min
- 0:54 into the third periodAlan Haworth · high sticking2 min
- 1:38 into the third periodGary Nylund · holding2 min
- 18:19 into the third periodMike Palmateer · slashing2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 9Stew GavinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 22Rick VaiveR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Gary LeemanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 5 | – |
| 7Greg TerrionC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 10John AndersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 12Dale McCourtC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 15Billy HarrisR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 16Rich CostelloC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 18Peter IhnacakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 19Bill DerlagoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Pat GrahamL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 24Dan DaoustC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Terry MartinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Gary NylundD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 3Jim BenningD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 20Jim KornD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 21Borje SalmingD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 33Dave HutchisonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Rick St. CroixG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 29Mike PalmateerG | L | 41 | 6 | .854 |
Washington Capitals
| 10Bobby CarpenterC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 11Mike GartnerR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 24Bryan EricksonC | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 12Glen CurrieC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 15Alan HaworthC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 18Craig LaughlinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25Doug JarvisC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 27Dave ChristianR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 6Darren VeitchD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 17Timo BlomqvistD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 14Gaetan DuchesneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 22Greg AdamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 5Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Larry MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Dave ShandD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pat RigginG | W | 22 | 1 | .955 |
| 30Dave ParroG | 0 | 0 | – |