Montréal Canadiens vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Saturday, October 24, 1987 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Montréal Canadiens beat the Washington Capitals 3–2 on Saturday, October 24, 1987 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Canadiens 27–23.
Goals came from Dale Hunter, Mats Naslund, Brian Skrudland, Dave Christian and Stephane Richer.
Brian Hayward made 25 saves on 27 shots for the win; Clint Malarchuk stopped 20 of 23.
Scoring
1st period
Dale Hunter (3)Unassisted0–103:59 WSH
Mats Naslund (3)Shayne Corson (5)1–117:42 MTL
2nd period
Brian Skrudland (1)Petr Svoboda (6)2–108:54 MTL
Dave Christian (5)Craig Laughlin (2), Rod Langway (3)2–213:17 WSH
Stephane Richer (6)Mats Naslund (12), Shayne Corson (6)3–215:01 MTL
Team stats
MTLWSH
2327
0%0%
0/40/4
1414
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:44 into the first period
Claude Lemieux · hooking2 min - 4:30 into the first period
Kelly Miller · hooking2 min - 6:41 into the second periodGuy Carbonneau · hooking2 min
- 15:01 into the second periodDale Hunter · charging2 min
- 19:49 into the second periodBrian Skrudland · holding2 min
- 4:08 into the third periodChris Nilan · roughing2 min
- 4:08 into the third periodDale Hunter · roughing2 min
- 15:22 into the third periodMike Lalor · interference2 min
- 16:12 into the third periodChris Chelios · roughing2 min
- 16:12 into the third periodChris Chelios · roughing2 min
- 16:12 into the third periodMike Gartner · roughing2 min
- 16:12 into the third periodCraig Laughlin · roughing2 min
- 16:12 into the third periodCraig Laughlin · roughing2 min
- 18:49 into the third periodDale Hunter · boarding2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 26Mats NaslundL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 27Shayne CorsonL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 39Brian SkrudlandC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 44Stephane RicherR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 25Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 1 | – |
| 11Ryan WalterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 15Bobby SmithC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 21Guy CarbonneauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 23Bob GaineyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 30Chris NilanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 31John KordicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 32Claude LemieuxR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 35Mike McpheeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 36Sergio MomessoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 17Craig LudwigD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 24Chris CheliosD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 28Larry TraderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 38Mike LalorD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Brian HaywardG | W | 27 | 2 | .926 |
| 33Patrick RoyG | 0 | 0 | – |
Washington Capitals
| 18Craig LaughlinR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Dave ChristianR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 5Rod LangwayD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 9David JensenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Kelly MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 11Mike GartnerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 7 | – |
| 12Peter SundstromL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 17Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 22Greg AdamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Lou FranceschettiL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 29Ed KastelicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 2Garry GalleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 8Larry MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 19Greg SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 28Paul CavalliniD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pete PeetersG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Clint MalarchukG | L | 23 | 3 | .870 |