Washington Capitals vs Buffalo Sabres
Regular season · Sunday, April 13, 1997 · Marine Midland Arena
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Buffalo Sabres 8–3 on Sunday, April 13, 1997 at Marine Midland Arena. The Capitals outshot the Sabres 38–24.
Jaroslav Svejkovsky scored 4 goals. Michael Peca, Peter Bondra, Andrei Nikolishin, Ken Klee, Wayne Primeau, Dixon Ward and Phil Housley also scored.
Olie Kolzig made 21 saves on 24 shots for the win; Steve Shields stopped 30 of 38.
Scoring
1st period
Michael Peca (20)Unassisted0–102:37 BUF · 
Peter Bondra (46)Phil Housley (29), Sylvain Cote (17)1–113:44 WSH
Andrei Nikolishin (9)Sylvain Cote (18)2–116:37 WSH · 
Jaroslav Svejkovsky (4)Joe Reekie (8)3–117:22 WSH- Jaroslav Svejkovsky (5)Brendan Witt (2), Andrew Brunette (6)4–118:14 WSH
2nd period
Ken Klee (3)Craig Berube (3), Dale Hunter (32)5–105:48 WSH
Wayne Primeau (2)Michal Grosek (21), Brad May (4)5–209:15 BUF · 
Dixon Ward (13)Michael Peca (29), Jason Dawe (26)5–310:33 BUF
Phil Housley (11)Peter Bondra (31), Andrei Nikolishin (19)6–319:59 WSH
3rd period
- Jaroslav Svejkovsky (6)Kevin Kaminski (1)7–312:18 WSH
- Jaroslav Svejkovsky (7)Andrew Brunette (7), Kevin Kaminski (2)8–316:14 WSH ·
Team stats
WSHBUF
3824
0%0%
2/41/4
2414
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 2:08 into the first period
Jay McKee · holding2 min - 5:48 into the first period
Kevin Kaminski · hooking obstruction2 min - 8:45 into the first periodBrad May · holding obstruction2 min
- 13:11 into the first periodMike Wilson · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 13:11 into the first periodAndrei Nikolishin · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 15:15 into the first periodBrad May · elbowing2 min
- 15:15 into the first periodBrad May · roughing2 min
- 15:15 into the first periodMark Tinordi · roughing2 min
- 15:15 into the first periodMark Tinordi · misconduct10 min
- 8:28 into the second periodJoe Reekie · slashing2 min
- 12:49 into the second periodJoe Reekie · tripping2 min
- 15:27 into the second periodJay McKee · roughing2 min
- 15:27 into the second periodCraig Berube · roughing2 min
- 15:27 into the second periodCraig Berube · roughing2 min
- 16:08 into the third periodJay McKee · holding2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 34Jaroslav SvejkovskyR | 4 | 0 | 4 | +2 | 6 | – |
| 12Peter BondraR | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 4 | – |
| 13Andrei NikolishinC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 18Andrew BrunetteL | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 3 | – |
| 23Kevin KaminskiC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 96Phil HousleyD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 27Craig BerubeL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 2Ken KleeD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 19Brendan WittD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 29Joe ReekieD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +5 | 1 | – |
| 21Todd KrygierL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 22Steve KonowalchukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 36Mike EaglesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | 3 | – |
| 24Mark TinordiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Bill RanfordG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | W | 24 | 3 | .875 |
Buffalo Sabres
| 27Michael PecaC | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 10Brad MayL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 15Dixon WardL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 17Jason DaweR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 18Michal GrosekL | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 76Wayne PrimeauC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 12Randy BurridgeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 3 | – |
| 19Brian HolzingerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 1 | – |
| 26Derek PlanteC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 28Donald AudetteR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 32Rob RayR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 81Miroslav SatanR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 3Garry GalleyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| 4Mike WilsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 6Bob BoughnerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 8Darryl ShannonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 44Alexei ZhitnikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | – |
| 74Jay McKeeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Steve ShieldsG | L | 38 | 8 | .789 |
| 39Dominik HasekG | 0 | 0 | – |