Washington Capitals vs St. Louis Blues
Regular season · Saturday, January 16, 1988 · St. Louis Arena
Game summary
The St. Louis Blues beat the Washington Capitals 3–1 on Saturday, January 16, 1988 at St. Louis Arena. The Capitals outshot the Blues 31–18.
Goals came from Bengt-Ake Gustafsson, Brian Sutter, Cliff Ronning and Perry Turnbull.
Rick Wamsley made 30 saves on 31 shots for the win; Clint Malarchuk stopped 15 of 18.
Scoring
1st period
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (14)Larry Murphy (36), Mike Gartner (19)1–008:47 WSH · 
Brian Sutter (8)Mark Hunter (15)1–113:13 STL
Cliff Ronning (1)Michael Dark (1)1–218:10 STL
2nd period
Perry Turnbull (8)Rick Meagher (11)1–300:48 STL
Team stats
WSHSTL
3118
0%0%
1/40/3
1714
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 7:49 into the first period
Brian Benning · tripping2 min - 10:16 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 15:12 into the first period
Dave Christian · tripping2 min - 5:20 into the second periodCharlie Bourgeois · slashing2 min
- 5:20 into the second periodBobby Gould · slashing2 min
- 10:53 into the second periodDale Hunter · interference2 min
- 16:51 into the second periodRobert Nordmark · holding2 min
- 18:33 into the second periodGreg Adams · high sticking5 min
- 12:20 into the third periodRob Ramage · roughing2 min
- 12:20 into the third periodDale Hunter · high sticking2 min
- 17:33 into the third periodDoug Evans · high sticking2 min
- 17:33 into the third periodDoug Evans · roughing2 min
- 17:33 into the third periodMike Gartner · high sticking2 min
- 17:33 into the third periodMike Gartner · roughing2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 11Mike GartnerR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 4 | – |
| 8Larry MurphyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 10Kelly MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Peter SundstromL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 17Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 20Michal PivonkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 22Greg AdamsL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 25Lou FranceschettiL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 26Yvon CorriveauL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 27Dave ChristianR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 5Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 19Greg SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 34Bill HoulderD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pete PeetersG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Clint MalarchukG | L | 18 | 3 | .833 |
St. Louis Blues
| 11Brian SutterL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 19Perry TurnbullC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Mark HunterR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 22Rick MeagherC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 37Cliff RonningC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 26Michael DarkD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 10Tony McKegneyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 15Ron HandyL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Bernie FederkoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 25Herb RaglanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 32Doug EvansL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 2Brian BenningD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 4Charlie BourgeoisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 5Rob RamageD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | – |
| 6Tim BothwellD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 14Paul CavalliniD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 23Gaston GingrasD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 27Robert NordmarkD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29Greg MillenG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 30Rick WamsleyG | W | 31 | 1 | .968 |