Washington Capitals vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Tuesday, February 4, 1992 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Washington Capitals 7–3 on Tuesday, February 4, 1992 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Sabres outshot the Capitals 43–36.
Dino Ciccarelli scored twice. Dave Andreychuk, Grant Ledyard, Todd Krygier, Tony Tanti, Randy Wood, Ken Sutton, Pat LaFontaine and Rob Ray also scored.
Daren Puppa made 33 saves on 36 shots for the win; Mike Liut stopped 36 of 43.
Scoring
1st period
Dave Andreychuk (26)Pat LaFontaine (29), Dale Hawerchuk (48)0–103:24 BUF · 
Grant Ledyard (4)Dave Andreychuk (30), Randy Hillier (1)0–215:33 BUF
2nd period
Dino Ciccarelli (26)Al Iafrate (25), Sylvain Cote (20)1–211:05 WSH · 
Todd Krygier (10)Mike Lalor (6)2–214:14 WSH
Tony Tanti (11)Dale Hawerchuk (49), Dave Andreychuk (31)2–318:32 BUF ·
3rd period
- Dino Ciccarelli (27)Randy Burridge (42)3–300:09 WSH
Randy Wood (16)Christian Ruuttu (17)3–411:12 BUF
Ken Sutton (2)Christian Ruuttu (18), Dave Andreychuk (32)3–512:11 BUF
Pat LaFontaine (30)Dave Andreychuk (33), Ken Sutton (16)3–616:29 BUF
Rob Ray (3)Pat LaFontaine (30), Gord Donnelly (3)3–719:45 BUF
Team stats
WSHBUF
3643
0%0%
1/42/6
1410
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:39 into the first period
Al Iafrate · holding2 min - 9:55 into the first periodMike Ridley · tripping2 min
- 1:22 into the second periodDmitri Khristich · hooking2 min
- 3:55 into the second period
Randy Hillier · hooking2 min - 5:31 into the second periodDale Hunter · interference2 min
- 10:02 into the second periodChristian Ruuttu · holding2 min
- 18:03 into the second periodSylvain Cote · tripping2 min
- 20:00 into the second periodRandy Wood · roughing2 min
- 20:00 into the second periodDale Hunter · roughing2 min
- 3:57 into the third periodJay Wells · holding2 min
- 5:50 into the third periodDave Snuggerud · hooking2 min
- 9:07 into the third periodAl Iafrate · holding2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 22Dino CiccarelliR | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | – |
| 18Randy BurridgeL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 21Todd KrygierL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 26Mike LalorD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 34Al IafrateD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −4 | 3 | – |
| 8Dmitri KhristichR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 9Nick KypreosL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 10Kelly MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 16Alan MayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 17Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 19John DruceR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 0 | – |
| 20Michal PivonkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 5Rod LangwayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mike LiutG | L | 43 | 7 | .837 |
| 33Don BeaupreG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 1 | 4 | 5 | +3 | 8 | – |
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 1 | 2 | 3 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 10Dale HawerchukC | 0 | 2 | 2 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 21Christian RuuttuC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 4 | – |
| 41Ken SuttonD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 15Randy WoodR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 19Tony TantiR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 32Rob RayR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 3Grant LedyardD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 23Randy HillierD | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 34Gord DonnellyD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Colin PattersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 18Dave SnuggerudL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 22Rick VaiveR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 28Donald AudetteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 7Kevin HallerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 8Doug BodgerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 24Jay WellsD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Daren PuppaG | W | 36 | 3 | .917 |
| 35Tom DraperG | 0 | 0 | – |