New York Islanders vs Washington Capitals
Regular season · Saturday, October 11, 1997 · Capital Centre
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the New York Islanders 3–1 on Saturday, October 11, 1997 at Capital Centre. The Capitals outshot the Islanders 20–18.
Goals came from Jan Bulis, Jaroslav Svejkovsky, Bryan Berard and Sergei Gonchar.
Olie Kolzig made 17 saves on 18 shots for the win; Tommy Salo stopped 17 of 20.
Scoring
2nd period
Jan Bulis (1)Sylvain Cote (1), Richard Zednik (1)0–102:18 WSH
Jaroslav Svejkovsky (3)Brendan Witt (2), Joe Juneau (6)0–203:44 WSH
Bryan Berard (2)Robert Reichel (4)1–214:47 NYI · 
Sergei Gonchar (1)Joe Juneau (7)1–319:55 WSH ·
Team stats
NYIWSH
1820
54%46%
1/51/5
1212
710
77
613
313
Penalties
- 7:03 into the first period
Scott Lachance · interference2 min - 9:53 into the first period
Dale Hunter · interference2 min - 11:07 into the first periodTom Chorske · boarding2 min
- 12:14 into the first periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
- 15:20 into the first periodKenny Jonsson · holding2 min
- 6:08 into the second periodSteve Konowalchuk · cross checking2 min
- 14:19 into the second periodJaroslav Svejkovsky · holding2 min
- 16:19 into the second periodSergei Gonchar · holding obstruction2 min
- 18:39 into the second periodMike Hough · hooking2 min
- 8:15 into the third periodDennis Vaske · interference2 min
- 12:55 into the third periodScott Lachance · roughing2 min
- 12:55 into the third periodJan Benda · roughing2 min
Season series
New York Islanders
| 21Robert ReichelC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 21:18 |
| 34Bryan BerardD | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | 24:10 |
| 13Claude LapointeC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15:09 |
| 14Tom ChorskeR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20:06 |
| 15Bryan SmolinskiC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:04 |
| 16Ziggy PalffyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24:51 |
| 17Sergei NemchinovL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 18:02 |
| 18Mike HoughL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 12:26 |
| 24Paul KruseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 02:28 |
| 25Mariusz CzerkawskiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:51 |
| 33Ken BelangerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 01:54 |
| 39Travis GreenC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 16:09 |
| 44Todd BertuzziR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 09:18 |
| 2Rich PilonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12:53 |
| 4Bryan McCabeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 22:05 |
| 7Scott LachanceD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 19:42 |
| 28Dennis VaskeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:25 |
| 29Kenny JonssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22:01 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Eric FichaudG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 35Tommy SaloG | L | 20 | 3 | .850 |
Washington Capitals
| 90Joe JuneauC | 0 | 2 | 2 | +1 | 2 | 21:04 |
| 8Jan BulisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 10:38 |
| 34Jaroslav SvejkovskyR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 13:49 |
| 44Richard ZednikR | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 10:52 |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 19:04 |
| 19Brendan WittD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 0 | 21:22 |
| 55Sergei GoncharD | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20:21 |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18:13 |
| 17Chris SimonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:36 |
| 20Michal PivonkaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16:09 |
| 22Steve KonowalchukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 14:36 |
| 27Craig BerubeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 08:07 |
| 28Jan BendaC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 08:31 |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:16 |
| 77Adam OatesC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 21:28 |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 13:59 |
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 26:02 |
| 24Mark TinordiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 19:22 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Martin BrochuG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | W | 18 | 1 | .944 |