Toronto Maple Leafs vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Friday, December 18, 1987 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 4–2 on Friday, December 18, 1987 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Maple Leafs 33–18.
Dave Christian scored twice. Kelly Miller, Mark Osborne, Scott Stevens and Tom Fergus also scored.
Pete Peeters made 16 saves on 18 shots for the win; Allan Bester stopped 29 of 32.
Scoring
1st period
Kelly Miller (4)Scott Stevens (29), Pete Peeters (1)0–108:06 WSH
2nd period
Mark Osborne (7)Peter Ihnacak (14), Todd Gill (6)1–107:17 TOR
Dave Christian (15)Kelly Miller (5), Peter Sundstrom (7)1–210:33 WSH
Scott Stevens (3)Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (14), Mike Gartner (13)1–317:40 WSH ·
3rd period
Tom Fergus (7)Vincent Damphousse (12), Sean Mckenna (3)2–310:27 TOR- Dave Christian (16)Kelly Miller (6)2–418:33 WSH ·
Team stats
TORWSH
1833
0%0%
0/40/6
3026
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 0:39 into the first period
Todd Gill · slashing2 min - 0:39 into the first periodTodd Gill · fighting5 min
- 0:39 into the first period
Greg Adams · slashing2 min - 0:39 into the first periodGreg Adams · fighting5 min
- 0:42 into the first periodTom Fergus · high sticking2 min
- 3:38 into the first periodAl Secord · cross checking2 min
- 4:33 into the first periodPeter Ihnacak · holding2 min
- 5:04 into the first periodEddie Olczyk · roughing2 min
- 5:04 into the first periodDale Hunter · roughing2 min
- 8:16 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 8:16 into the first periodLou Franceschetti · slashing2 min
- 16:50 into the first periodVincent Damphousse · holding2 min
- 19:50 into the first periodChris Mcrae · cross checking2 min
- 19:50 into the first periodChris Mcrae · fighting5 min
- 19:50 into the first periodGreg Adams · instigator2 min
- 19:50 into the first periodGreg Adams · fighting5 min
- 2:09 into the second periodKelly Miller · holding2 min
- 5:04 into the second periodTom Fergus · holding2 min
- 15:50 into the second periodPete Peeters · delaying game2 min
- 3:36 into the third periodChris Mcrae · cross checking2 min
- 5:19 into the third periodGarry Galley · tripping2 min
- 11:31 into the third periodLou Franceschetti · cross checking2 min
Season series
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 8Sean MckennaR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Vincent DamphousseC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Mark OsborneL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Peter IhnacakC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 19Tom FergusC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 23Todd GillD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 9Russ CourtnallR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | – |
| 11Gary LeemanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Miroslav FrycerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 16Eddie OlczykR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 20Al SecordL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 24Dan DaoustC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Dave SemenkoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 32Chris McraeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Luke RichardsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 3Dale DegrayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 4Rick LanzD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 33Al IafrateD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Allan BesterG | L | 32 | 3 | .906 |
| 31Ken WreggetG | 0 | 0 | – |
Washington Capitals
| 10Kelly MillerL | 1 | 2 | 3 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 27Dave ChristianR | 2 | 0 | 2 | +1 | 8 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 11Mike GartnerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 12Peter SundstromL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 17Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Craig LaughlinR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 20Michal PivonkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 22Greg AdamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 25Lou FranceschettiL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 2Garry GalleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 8Larry MurphyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 19Greg SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 34Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pete PeetersG | W | 18 | 2 | .889 |
| 30Clint MalarchukG | 0 | 0 | – |