Washington Capitals vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Wednesday, December 23, 1992 · Buffalo Memorial Auditorium
Game summary
The Buffalo Sabres beat the Washington Capitals 4–1 on Wednesday, December 23, 1992 at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. The Capitals outshot the Sabres 34–31.
Alexander Mogilny scored a hat trick. Al Iafrate and Donald Audette also scored.
Dominik Hasek made 33 saves on 34 shots for the win; Don Beaupre stopped 27 of 31.
Scoring
2nd period
Alexander Mogilny (26)Unassisted0–101:13 BUF- Alexander Mogilny (27)Pat LaFontaine (37), Richard Smehlik (17)0–206:27 BUF
- Alexander Mogilny (28)Brad May (6), Grant Ledyard (1)0–314:35 BUF
Al Iafrate (13)Peter Bondra (24), Sylvain Cote (14)1–315:25 WSH
3rd period
Donald Audette (3)Pat LaFontaine (38), Grant Ledyard (2)1–414:53 BUF
Team stats
WSHBUF
3431
0%0%
0/50/7
1612
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 1:32 into the first period
Peter Bondra · hooking2 min - 4:05 into the first period
Ken Sutton · holding the stick2 min - 8:51 into the first periodSylvain Cote · high sticking2 min
- 15:39 into the first periodPat Elynuik · roughing2 min
- 1:40 into the second periodBrad May · tripping2 min
- 7:28 into the second periodMichal Pivonka · holding2 min
- 16:40 into the second periodDale Hunter · high sticking2 min
- 3:44 into the third periodDonald Audette · holding the stick2 min
- 5:35 into the third periodKevin Hatcher · high sticking2 min
- 9:51 into the third periodDoug Bodger · tripping2 min
- 14:53 into the third periodPat LaFontaine · roughing2 min
- 14:53 into the third periodDon Beaupre · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 14:53 into the third periodAl Iafrate · high sticking2 min
- 17:50 into the third periodRob Ray · charging2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 34Al IafrateD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 8Dmitri KhristichR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 10Kelly MillerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 4 | – |
| 11Bobby CarpenterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 2 | – |
| 16Alan MayL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 17Mike RidleyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 19Pat ElynuikR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Michal PivonkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 21Todd KrygierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | – |
| 23Paul MacdermidR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 26Keith JonesR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 4Kevin HatcherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | – |
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 14Paul CavalliniD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 36Shawn AndersonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33Don BeaupreG | L | 31 | 4 | .871 |
| 39Jim HrivnakG | 0 | 0 | – |
Buffalo Sabres
| 89Alexander MogilnyR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +3 | 5 | – |
| 16Pat LaFontaineC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +4 | 4 | – |
| 3Grant LedyardD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Brad MayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +4 | 4 | – |
| 28Donald AudetteR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 42Richard SmehlikD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 10Dale HawerchukC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 13Yuri KhmylevL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 14Dave HannanC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 17Colin PattersonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 20Bob SweeneyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 25Dave AndreychukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 29Bob CorkumC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | – |
| 32Rob RayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Petr SvobodaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 8Doug BodgerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 2 | – |
| 34Gord DonnellyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 41Ken SuttonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Daren PuppaG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Dominik HasekG | W | 34 | 1 | .971 |