Washington Capitals vs Toronto Maple Leafs
Regular season · Saturday, January 2, 1999 · Maple Leaf Gardens
Game summary
The Washington Capitals beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5–2 on Saturday, January 2, 1999 at Maple Leaf Gardens. The Maple Leafs outshot the Capitals 31–28.
Goals came from Steve Thomas, Michal Pivonka, Brian Bellows, Jan Bulis, Jeff Toms, Freddy Modin and Calle Johansson.
Olie Kolzig made 29 saves on 31 shots for the win; Curtis Joseph stopped 23 of 27.
Scoring
1st period
Steve Thomas (14)Alexander Karpovtsev (8), Freddy Modin (8)0–100:44 TOR
2nd period
Michal Pivonka (2)Unassisted1–101:29 WSH · 
Brian Bellows (6)Jeff Toms (3), Dmitri Mironov (12)2–111:39 WSH
Jan Bulis (3)Dmitri Mironov (13), James Black (6)3–119:58 WSH ·
3rd period
Jeff Toms (1)Brian Bellows (8)4–103:34 WSH
Freddy Modin (11)Tomas Kaberle (11)4–207:22 TOR
Calle Johansson (6)Unassisted5–219:37 WSH ·
Team stats
WSHTOR
2831
51%49%
2/40/5
108
1122
62
1621
55
Penalties
- 7:56 into the first period
Alexander Karpovtsev · elbowing2 min - 8:25 into the first period
Michal Pivonka · tripping obstruction2 min - 11:24 into the first periodDale Hunter · interference2 min
- 13:48 into the first periodIgor Korolev · hooking2 min
- 16:27 into the first periodMark Tinordi · roughing2 min
- 1:15 into the second periodKris King · elbowing2 min
- 15:36 into the second periodPeter Bondra · high sticking2 min
- 15:36 into the second periodPeter Bondra · high sticking2 min
- 19:09 into the second periodYannick Tremblay · tripping2 min
Season series
Washington Capitals
| 21Jeff TomsL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 13:59 |
| 23Brian BellowsL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +2 | 3 | 16:11 |
| 15Dmitri MironovD | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 14:09 |
| 8Jan BulisC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 16:29 |
| 20Michal PivonkaC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 1 | 17:31 |
| 28James BlackL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 18:26 |
| 6Calle JohanssonD | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 4 | 27:51 |
| 12Peter BondraR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 4 | 16:31 |
| 13Andrei NikolishinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 19:36 |
| 22Steve KonowalchukL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16:50 |
| 27Craig BerubeL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 03:38 |
| 32Dale HunterC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 03:22 |
| 36Mike EaglesL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 08:37 |
| 90Joe JuneauC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:57 |
| 2Ken KleeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25:36 |
| 19Brendan WittD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:07 |
| 24Mark TinordiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 07:29 |
| 29Joe ReekieD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 25:45 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31Rick TabaracciG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 37Olie KolzigG | W | 31 | 2 | .935 |
Toronto Maple Leafs
| 19Freddy ModinL | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 4 | 14:39 |
| 32Steve ThomasR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 20:53 |
| 15Tomas KaberleD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 21:19 |
| 52Alexander KarpovtsevD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16:53 |
| 7Derek KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 15:46 |
| 8Todd WarrinerL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | 12:58 |
| 10Garry ValkL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:49 |
| 12Kris KingL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 09:43 |
| 13Mats SundinC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20:08 |
| 14Darby HendricksonC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 09:32 |
| 20Mike JohnsonR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14:50 |
| 22Igor KorolevC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18:32 |
| 28Tie DomiR | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 08:57 |
| 94Sergei BerezinL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17:58 |
| 3Sylvain CoteD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 2 | 22:04 |
| 25Jason SmithD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | 17:10 |
| 36Dmitry YushkevichD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22:19 |
| 38Yannick TremblayD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 20:21 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30Glenn HealyG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 31Curtis JosephG | L | 27 | 4 | .852 |