Washington Capitals vs Philadelphia Flyers
Regular season · Thursday, December 15, 1988 · Spectrum
Game summary
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Washington Capitals 4–1 on Thursday, December 15, 1988 at Spectrum. The Capitals outshot the Flyers 33–23.
Goals came from Brian Propp, Gord Murphy, Murray Craven, Michal Pivonka and Tim Kerr.
Scoring
1st period
Brian Propp (14)Dave Poulin (8)0–110:31 PHI · 
Gord Murphy (2)Mike Bullard (19), Scott Mellanby (11)0–218:54 PHI ·
2nd period
Murray Craven (5)Kjell Samuelsson (5)0–301:23 PHI
Michal Pivonka (3)Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (27), Mike Gartner (12)1–314:57 WSH
3rd period
Tim Kerr (25)Unassisted1–401:15 PHI
Team stats
WSHPHI
3323
0%0%
0/51/3
1317
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 4:08 into the first period
Jay Wells · interference2 min - 9:00 into the first periodJay Wells · holding2 min
- 12:33 into the first periodScott Mellanby · holding2 min
- 18:31 into the first period
Stephen Leach · interference2 min - 3:14 into the second periodRod Langway · holding2 min
- 7:06 into the second periodStephen Leach · roughing2 min
- 7:08 into the second periodGord Murphy · roughing2 min
- 10:09 into the second periodKjell Samuelsson · holding2 min
- 16:01 into the second periodScott Stevens · holding2 min
- 11:10 into the third periodDave Brown · instigator2 min
- 11:10 into the third periodDave Brown · fighting5 min
- 11:10 into the third periodScott Stevens · fighting5 min
Season series
The box score appears once the game starts.