Washington Capitals vs Hartford Whalers
Regular season · Wednesday, December 9, 1987 · Hartford Civic Center
Game summary
The Hartford Whalers beat the Washington Capitals 5–4 on Wednesday, December 9, 1987 at Hartford Civic Center. The Whalers outshot the Capitals 34–28.
Sylvain Turgeon scored twice, Kevin Hatcher scored twice and Kevin Dineen scored twice. Scot Kleinendorst, Larry Murphy and Greg Adams also scored.
Mike Liut made 24 saves on 28 shots for the win; Alain Raymond stopped 18 of 20.
Scoring
1st period
Sylvain Turgeon (12)Sylvain Cote (4), Dean Evason (8)0–107:42 HFD
Scot Kleinendorst (3)Mike Millar (3)0–211:07 HFD
Larry Murphy (4)Garry Galley (9), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (11)1–216:22 WSH · - Sylvain Turgeon (13)Ron Francis (17), John Anderson (17)1–317:09 HFD
2nd period
Greg Adams (6)Mike Gartner (10), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (12)2–300:55 WSH · 
Kevin Hatcher (7)Unassisted3–306:00 WSH
Kevin Dineen (11)Brent Peterson (5), Dave Tippett (5)3–412:15 HFD- Kevin Hatcher (8)Unassisted4–418:32 WSH
3rd period
- Kevin Dineen (12)Ron Francis (18)4–509:07 HFD
Team stats
WSHHFD
2834
0%0%
2/20/3
4129
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 16:06 into the first period
Brent Peterson · tripping2 min - 18:42 into the first periodRay Ferraro · cross checking2 min
- 18:42 into the first period
Paul Cavallini · roughing2 min - 0:04 into the second periodKevin Dineen · hooking2 min
- 0:04 into the second periodPeter Sundstrom · hooking2 min
- 0:30 into the second periodPaul Macdermid · elbowing2 min
- 0:55 into the second periodUlf Samuelsson · roughing2 min
- 0:55 into the second periodScott Stevens · roughing2 min
- 0:55 into the second periodScott Stevens · misconduct10 min
- 3:19 into the second periodRon Francis · fighting5 min
- 3:19 into the second periodGarry Galley · roughing2 min
- 3:19 into the second periodGarry Galley · fighting5 min
- 8:28 into the second periodBill Houlder · cross checking2 min
- 8:51 into the second periodKevin Dineen · roughing2 min
- 8:51 into the second periodPaul Cavallini · high sticking2 min
- 9:24 into the second periodDale Hunter · roughing2 min
- 12:46 into the second periodKevin Dineen · high sticking2 min
- 12:46 into the second periodLou Franceschetti · roughing2 min
- 13:00 into the second periodDana Murzyn · roughing2 min
- 13:00 into the second periodBobby Gould · roughing2 min
- 15:05 into the second periodPaul Macdermid · roughing2 min
- 15:05 into the second periodDale Hunter · roughing2 min
- 2:59 into the third periodPaul Cavallini · hooking2 min
- 9:24 into the third periodUlf Samuelsson · high sticking2 min
- 9:24 into the third periodUlf Samuelsson · roughing2 min
- 9:24 into the third periodDale Hunter · high sticking2 min
- 19:17 into the third periodKevin Dineen · delaying game2 min
- 19:17 into the third periodScott Stevens · delaying game2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 11Mike GartnerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 22Greg AdamsL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 2Garry GalleyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Larry MurphyD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −4 | 1 | – |
| 10Kelly MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 12Peter SundstromL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 17Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 20Michal PivonkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 25Lou FranceschettiL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 27Dave ChristianR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 29Ed KastelicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 28Paul CavalliniD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 34Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Clint MalarchukG | 14 | 3 | .786 | |
| 31Alain RaymondG | L | 20 | 2 | .900 |
Hartford Whalers
| 10Ron FrancisC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 11Kevin DineenR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 16Sylvain TurgeonL | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 6 | – |
| 8Mike MillarR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 12Dean EvasonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Dave TippettL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Brent PetersonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Scot KleinendorstC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 20John AndersonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 21Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 25Dave WilliamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 26Ray FerraroC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 32Torrie RobertsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Joel QuennevilleD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 4Dana MurzynD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Ulf SamuelssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 44Dave BabychD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 4 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | W | 28 | 4 | .857 |
| 31Steve WeeksG | 0 | 0 | – |