Quebec Nordiques vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Thursday, March 14, 1991 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Quebec Nordiques 5–3 on Thursday, March 14, 1991 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Nordiques 46–17.
Joe Sakic scored twice and Kelly Miller scored twice. Kevin Hatcher, Mats Sundin, Al Iafrate and Calle Johansson also scored.
Don Beaupre made 14 saves on 17 shots for the win; Jacques Cloutier stopped 41 of 46.
Scoring
1st period
Kevin Hatcher (21)Calle Johansson (31), Mike Ridley (44)0–111:29 WSH · 
Joe Sakic (42)Stephane Morin (16)1–112:59 QUE · 
Mats Sundin (20)Tony Hrkac (26), Alexei Gusarov (6)2–117:16 QUE
2nd period
Al Iafrate (8)Michal Pivonka (41), Dmitri Khristich (7)2–207:44 WSH
Kelly Miller (20)Mike Ridley (45), Calle Johansson (32)2–311:29 WSH · - Joe Sakic (43)Mike Hough (18), Mats Sundin (33)3–311:58 QUE
Calle Johansson (9)Dmitri Khristich (8), Michal Pivonka (42)3–415:49 WSH
3rd period
- Kelly Miller (21)Mike Ridley (46), Calle Johansson (33)3–504:19 WSH
Team stats
QUEWSH
1746
0%0%
0/32/4
2815
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 6:45 into the first period
Mike Hough · hooking2 min - 10:59 into the first periodOwen Nolan · fighting5 min
- 10:59 into the first periodOwen Nolan · game misconduct10 min
- 9:56 into the second periodSteven Finn · holding2 min
- 17:35 into the second periodTony Twist · fighting5 min
- 17:35 into the second period
Alan May · fighting5 min - 18:21 into the second periodSerge Roberge · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 18:21 into the second periodNick Kypreos · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 8:20 into the third periodCalle Johansson · roughing2 min
- 9:38 into the third periodKen Sabourin · slashing2 min
- 15:38 into the third periodHerb Raglan · high sticking2 min
- 15:38 into the third periodAlan May · charging2 min
- 16:44 into the third periodMichal Pivonka · high sticking2 min
Season series
Quebec Nordiques
| 13Mats SundinC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 19Joe SakicC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 18Mike HoughL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 25Stephane MorinC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 40Tony HrkacC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 5Alexei GusarovD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 11Owen NolanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 14Herb RaglanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Tony TwistL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Michael McneilR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Everett SanipassL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 22Scott PearsonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 39Serge RobergeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 45Mark VermetteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 6Craig WolaninD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 27Randy VelischekD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 29Steven FinnD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 58Mario DoyonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Ron TugnuttG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 32Jacques CloutierG | L | 46 | 5 | .891 |
Washington Capitals
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 1 | 3 | 4 | +1 | 5 | – |
| 17Mike RidleyC | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 10Kelly MillerL | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 20Michal PivonkaC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 29Dmitri KhristichR | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 6 | – |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 7 | – |
| 34Al IafrateD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 9Nick KypreosL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 11Tim BerglandR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 16Alan MayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 19John DruceR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 21Stephen LeachR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 24Jeff GreenlawL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 3Mikhail TatarinovD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | – |
| 5Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 8Ken SabourinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 33Don BeaupreG | W | 17 | 3 | .824 |