St. Louis Blues vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Thursday, December 5, 1985 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the St. Louis Blues 3–2 in overtime on Thursday, December 5, 1985 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Blues 28–18.
Goals came from Mike Gartner, Joe Mullen, Dave Christian, Brian Sutter and Scott Stevens.
Pete Peeters made 16 saves on 18 shots for the win; Rick Wamsley stopped 25 of 28.
Scoring
1st period
Mike Gartner (17)Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (19), Dave Christian (14)0–101:11 WSH · 
Joe Mullen (14)Ron Flockhart (11), Dave Barr (11)1–107:30 STL · 
Dave Christian (15)Bobby Carpenter (11), Scott Stevens (8)1–211:32 WSH
Brian Sutter (10)Bernie Federko (16), Mark Hunter (8)2–212:45 STL
Overtime
Scott Stevens (4)Greg Adams (15), Craig Laughlin (17)2–301:29 WSH
Team stats
STLWSH
1828
0%0%
1/21/2
44
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:32 into the first period
Brian Sutter · holding2 min - 6:17 into the first period
Rod Langway · tripping2 min - 14:17 into the first periodMark Hunter · high sticking2 min
- 8:50 into the second periodDoug Jarvis · hooking2 min
Season series
St. Louis Blues
| 6Dave BarrR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 7Joe MullenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 11Brian SutterL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 12Ron FlockhartC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 20Mark HunterR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 9Doug GilmourC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Mark ReedsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 16Kevin LavalleeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Denis CyrR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 22Rick MeagherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Greg PaslawskiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 10Bruce BellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Lee NorwoodD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 26Terry JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Ric NattressD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 35Jim PaveseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Greg MillenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Rick WamsleyG | L | 28 | 3 | .893 |
Washington Capitals
| 27Dave ChristianR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 10Bobby CarpenterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 11Mike GartnerR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 18Craig LaughlinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 22Greg AdamsL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 14Gaetan DuchesneL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 15Alan HaworthC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Doug JarvisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 29Ed KastelicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 2Dwight SchofieldD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 6Darren VeitchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 8Larry MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 19Peter AnderssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pete PeetersG | W | 18 | 2 | .889 |
| 35Al JensenG | 0 | 0 | – |