Philadelphia Flyers vs Washington Capitals

Regular season · Tuesday, December 6, 1988 · Capital Centre

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3–4

24–29

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Game summary

The Washington Capitals beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4–3 on Tuesday, December 6, 1988 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Flyers 29–24.

Mike Ridley scored a hat trick. Kelly Miller, Terry Carkner, Mike Bullard and Don Nachbaur also scored.

Goals
PHI	0	2	1	3	24
WSH	1	2	1	4	29

Scoring

1st period

Kelly Miller (3)Mike Ridley (10), Rod Langway (5)0–117:30 WSH

2nd period

Terry Carkner (6)Rick Tocchet (14), Mike Bullard (17)1–103:12 PHI ·
Mike Ridley (15)Kelly Miller (7), Stephen Leach (9)1–209:11 WSH
Mike Bullard (8)Rick Tocchet (15), Terry Carkner (11)2–213:02 PHI
Mike Ridley (16)Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (24), Scott Stevens (19)2–316:25 WSH ·

3rd period

Mike Ridley (17)Kelly Miller (8)2–416:53 WSH
Don Nachbaur (1)Scott Mellanby (10), Derrick Smith (7)3–418:33 PHI

Team stats

PHIWSH

2429

0%0%

1/21/3

64

00

00

00

00

Penalties

7:22 into the first periodKjell Samuelsson · holding2 min
1:51 into the second periodNeil Sheehy · tripping2 min
15:21 into the second periodJeff Chychrun · cross checking2 min
8:20 into the third periodLarry Murphy · holding2 min
14:02 into the third periodJay Wells · holding2 min

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