Washington Capitals vs New York Islanders
Regular season · Thursday, December 27, 1984 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the New York Islanders 5–4 in overtime on Thursday, December 27, 1984 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The Capitals outshot the Islanders 40–16.
Doug Jarvis scored twice and Dave Christian scored twice. Gaetan Duchesne, Pat LaFontaine, Patrick Flatley, John Tonelli and Tomas Jonsson also scored.
Pat Riggin made 12 saves on 16 shots for the win; Billy Smith stopped 35 of 40.
Scoring
1st period
Gaetan Duchesne (9)Bobby Gould (10), Rod Langway (13)1–007:38 WSH
Pat LaFontaine (9)Greg Gilbert (11), Stefan Persson (13)1–110:01 NYI
Patrick Flatley (12)Pat LaFontaine (25), Greg Gilbert (12)1–214:02 NYI
2nd period
John Tonelli (22)Denis Potvin (22)1–300:34 NYI · 
Doug Jarvis (6)Gary Sampson (10), Larry Murphy (17)2–303:14 WSH
Dave Christian (13)Darren Veitch (12)3–311:25 WSH ·
3rd period
Tomas Jonsson (7)Brent Sutter (36), Duane Sutter (13)3–409:34 NYI- Dave Christian (14)Craig Laughlin (11), Bobby Carpenter (20)4–413:28 WSH
Overtime
- Doug Jarvis (7)Gaetan Duchesne (5), Craig Laughlin (12)5–404:10 WSH
Team stats
WSHNYI
4016
0%0%
1/51/3
1014
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:46 into the first period
John Tonelli · slashing2 min - 8:31 into the first periodGerald Diduck · interference2 min
- 9:08 into the first period
Scott Stevens · tripping2 min - 10:32 into the first periodDenis Potvin · roughing2 min
- 17:43 into the first periodDave Langevin · tripping2 min
- 19:25 into the first periodAlan Haworth · tripping2 min
- 9:18 into the second periodDenis Potvin · high sticking2 min
- 9:18 into the second periodMike Gartner · high sticking2 min
- 9:26 into the second periodStefan Persson · holding2 min
- 16:22 into the second periodDoug Jarvis · hooking2 min
- 15:14 into the third periodDuane Sutter · roughing2 min
- 15:14 into the third periodRod Langway · roughing2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 14Gaetan DuchesneL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 18Craig LaughlinR | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 25Doug JarvisC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27Dave ChristianR | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 10Bobby CarpenterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 20Gary SampsonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Rod LangwayD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 6Darren VeitchD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 8 | – |
| 8Larry MurphyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 11Mike GartnerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 12Glen CurrieC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 15Alan HaworthC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 24Bryan EricksonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Mike McEwenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Peter AnderssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pat RigginG | W | 16 | 4 | .750 |
| 31Bob MasonG | 0 | 0 | – |
New York Islanders
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 17Greg GilbertL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 8Patrick FlatleyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 12Duane SutterR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 21Brent SutterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 27John TonelliL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 3Tomas JonssonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 5Denis PotvinD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 7Stefan PerssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 9Clark GilliesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Bob BourneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Bryan TrottierC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Mike BossyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 91Butch GoringC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Paul BoutilierD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 24Gord LaneD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Dave LangevinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 29Gerald DiduckD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Kelly HrudeyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Billy SmithG | L | 40 | 5 | .875 |