New York Rangers vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Saturday, March 11, 1989 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the New York Rangers 4–2 on Saturday, March 11, 1989 at Capital Centre. The Rangers outshot the Capitals 29–24.
Goals came from Dave Christian, Brian Leetch, Dino Ciccarelli, Brian Mullen, Dale Hunter and Doug Wickenheiser.
Pete Peeters made 27 saves on 29 shots for the win; John Vanbiesbrouck stopped 20 of 24.
Scoring
1st period
Dave Christian (30)Calle Johansson (14), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (42)0–101:43 WSH · 
Brian Leetch (21)Kelly Kisio (33), Carey Wilson (38)1–111:26 NYR
3rd period
Dino Ciccarelli (33)Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (43), Chris Felix (5)1–203:45 WSH
Brian Mullen (29)Brian Leetch (46)2–205:12 NYR · 
Dale Hunter (17)Geoff Courtnall (32), Bobby Gould (10)2–315:18 WSH
Doug Wickenheiser (3)Unassisted2–417:58 WSH
Team stats
NYRWSH
2924
0%0%
1/61/4
1618
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:04 into the first period
Brian Leetch · tripping2 min - 4:48 into the first periodTomas Sandstrom · elbowing2 min
- 9:01 into the first period
Michal Pivonka · interference2 min - 14:12 into the first periodRudy Poeschek · interference2 min
- 14:55 into the first periodDino Ciccarelli · holding2 min
- 17:40 into the first periodLindy Ruff · roughing2 min
- 17:40 into the first periodJohn Druce · roughing2 min
- 1:01 into the second periodBrian Leetch · hooking2 min
- 5:54 into the second periodNeil Sheehy · holding2 min
- 4:28 into the third periodRod Langway · tripping2 min
- 5:57 into the third periodMichal Pivonka · tripping2 min
- 9:20 into the third periodTony Granato · roughing2 min
- 9:20 into the third periodDino Ciccarelli · roughing2 min
- 11:24 into the third periodTomas Sandstrom · roughing2 min
- 11:24 into the third periodScott Stevens · roughing2 min
- 18:51 into the third periodGeoff Courtnall · high sticking2 min
- 19:50 into the third periodJames Patrick · tripping2 min
Season series
New York Rangers
| 2Brian LeetchD | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 11Kelly KisioC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 17Carey WilsonC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 19Brian MullenR | 1 | 0 | 1 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 10Guy LafleurR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 16Marcel DionneC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 18Tony GranatoR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 23Lucien DeBloisC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 25John OgrodnickL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 27Joe PatersonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Tomas SandstromR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 44Lindy RuffL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 3James PatrickD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 4Ron GreschnerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 14Mark HardyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 21David ShawD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Michel PetitD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Rudy PoeschekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33Bob FroeseG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 34John VanbiesbrouckG | L | 24 | 4 | .833 |
Washington Capitals
| 16Bengt-Ake GustafssonL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 14Geoff CourtnallL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 18Doug WickenheiserC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 22Dino CiccarelliR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 23Bobby GouldR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Dave ChristianR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 28Chris FelixD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 10Kelly MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 17Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 19John DruceR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 20Michal PivonkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 21Stephen LeachR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 3Scott StevensD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 2 | – |
| 8Bob RouseD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Neil SheehyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Pete PeetersG | W | 29 | 2 | .931 |
| 33Don BeaupreG | 0 | 0 | – |