Washington Capitals vs Detroit Red Wings
Regular season · Wednesday, December 16, 1987 · Joe Louis Arena
Game summary
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Washington Capitals 6–1 on Wednesday, December 16, 1987 at Joe Louis Arena. The Red Wings outshot the Capitals 30–21.
Petr Klima scored twice. Mike O'connell, Dave Barr, Steve Yzerman, John Chabot and Craig Laughlin also scored.
Greg Stefan made 20 saves on 21 shots for the win; Clint Malarchuk stopped 24 of 30.
Scoring
1st period
Mike O'connell (2)Dave Barr (7), John Chabot (8)0–111:08 DET
Petr Klima (17)John Chabot (9), Gilbert Delorme (2)0–219:40 DET
2nd period
Dave Barr (1)John Chabot (10), Petr Klima (5)0–305:26 DET · 
Steve Yzerman (22)Gerard Gallant (18), Jeff Sharples (10)0–408:23 DET- Petr Klima (18)John Chabot (11), Dave Barr (8)0–516:20 DET
3rd period
John Chabot (6)Mike O'connell (7), Petr Klima (6)0–602:02 DET
Craig Laughlin (4)Scott Stevens (28)1–604:34 WSH
Team stats
WSHDET
2130
0%0%
0/21/4
1612
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:16 into the first period
Greg Adams · hooking2 min - 8:58 into the first periodGreg Smith · hooking2 min
- 15:00 into the first period
Bob Probert · holding2 min - 15:00 into the first periodBob Probert · roughing2 min
- 15:00 into the first periodScott Stevens · roughing2 min
- 18:00 into the first periodGerard Gallant · roughing2 min
- 18:00 into the first periodKelly Miller · roughing2 min
- 3:38 into the second periodGreg Adams · hooking2 min
- 9:06 into the second periodJeff Sharples · holding2 min
- 19:08 into the second periodJoe Murphy · roughing2 min
- 19:08 into the second periodGreg Smith · roughing2 min
- 0:00 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 12:57 into the third periodDave Barr · slashing2 min
- 12:57 into the third periodScott Stevens · slashing2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 18Craig LaughlinR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 10Kelly MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 11Mike GartnerR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 12Peter SundstromL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 17Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 22Greg AdamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 25Lou FranceschettiL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27Dave ChristianR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 29Ed KastelicR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 2Garry GalleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5 | 1 | – |
| 8Larry MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 19Greg SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| 34Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pete PeetersG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Clint MalarchukG | L | 30 | 6 | .800 |
Detroit Red Wings
| 16John ChabotC | 1 | 4 | 5 | +4 | 1 | – |
| 85Petr KlimaR | 2 | 2 | 4 | +4 | 4 | – |
| 22Dave BarrR | 1 | 2 | 3 | +4 | 1 | – |
| 2Mike O'connellD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 5 | – |
| 17Gerard GallantL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 19Steve YzermanC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 29Gilbert DelormeD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 34Jeff SharplesD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 10Joe MurphyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Shawn BurrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 15Mel BridgmanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Mark KumpelR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Tim HigginsR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 24Bob ProbertL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 38Murray EavesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Darren VeitchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 7Doug HalwardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Harold SnepstsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Glen HanlonG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Greg StefanG | W | 21 | 1 | .952 |