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Friday, January 4, 1980 · Springfield Civic Center

Capitals 6 at Whalers 3

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 69OVR Al Hangsleben Capitals First Star 3A · 1 SOG D 64OVR Rick Green Capitals Second Star 3A · 1 SOG R 53OVR Antero Lehtonen Capitals Third Star 2G · 4 SOG RC

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 0:53 Guy Charron (9) PPG Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (17) WSH 1 – 0 HFD
  2. 7:01 Mike Rogers (15) Mark Howe (18), Al Hangsleben (8) WSH 1 – 1 HFD

2nd Period

  1. 8:18 Blaine Stoughton (22) Dave Keon (30), Al Hangsleben (9) WSH 1 – 2 HFD
  2. 16:00 Guy Charron (10) PPG Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (18), Ryan Walter (19) WSH 2 – 2 HFD

3rd Period

  1. 5:44 Wes Jarvis (6) Leif Svensson (9), Rick Green (9) WSH 3 – 2 HFD
  2. 6:03 Antero Lehtonen (4) Mark Lofthouse (7), Rick Green (10) WSH 4 – 2 HFD
  3. 15:12 Antero Lehtonen (5) Rick Green (11) WSH 5 – 2 HFD
  4. 15:38 Dave Debol (3) Al Hangsleben (10), Pat Boutette (5) WSH 5 – 3 HFD
  5. 17:49 Mike Gartner (12) Unassisted WSH 6 – 3 HFD

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Rick Green D 0 3 1 0 0 +1 0:00 2.10
Antero Lehtonen R 2 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.95
Guy Charron C 2 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 1.58
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 0 2 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.40
Wes Jarvis C 1 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.98
Leif Svensson D 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Mike Gartner R 1 0 5 0 0 0 0:00 0.83
Mark Lofthouse R 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Ryan Walter C 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Rolf Edberg C 0 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.30
Robert Picard D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Paul MacKinnon D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Paul Mulvey L 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.07
Brent Tremblay D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Mike Kaszycki C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Pierre Bouchard D 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Tom Rowe R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.22
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Rollie Boutin W 23 20 3 .870 60:00 -0.25

Hartford Whalers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Al Hangsleben L 0 3 1 0 0 +3 0:00 2.25
Dave Debol C 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 1.05
Mike Rogers C 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Blaine Stoughton L 1 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.98
Mark Howe D 0 1 4 0 0 0 0:00 0.93
Dave Keon C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Pat Boutette L 0 1 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.63
Al Sims D 0 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.30
Brian Hill C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Gordie Howe R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Jordy Douglas L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.07
Mark Renaud D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Ray Allison R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Nick Fotiu L 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.08
Larry Giroux D 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Greg Carroll C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Gordie Roberts D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
John Garrett L 31 25 6 .806 60:00 -2.00