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Friday, December 23, 1983 · Capital Centre

Islanders 3 at Capitals 7

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

L 96OVR Bengt-Ake Gustafsson Capitals First Star 3G · 1A · 4 SOG R 92OVR Dave Christian Capitals Second Star 3A · 0 SOG R 68OVR Craig Laughlin Capitals Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 16:14 Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (14) Dave Christian (24), Craig Laughlin (11) NYI 0 – 1 WSH

2nd Period

  1. 5:58 Doug Jarvis (7) Gary McAdam (3), Mike Gartner (17) NYI 0 – 2 WSH
  2. 13:54 Craig Laughlin (8) Dave Christian (25), Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (22) NYI 0 – 3 WSH
  3. 16:39 Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (15) Bobby Gould (4), Larry Murphy (17) NYI 0 – 4 WSH
  4. 19:12 Brent Sutter (20) PPG Mike Bossy (27), Gord Dineen (4) NYI 1 – 4 WSH

3rd Period

  1. 1:03 Greg Gilbert (7) Bryan Trottier (36) NYI 2 – 4 WSH
  2. 5:15 Mike Bossy (27) Bryan Trottier (37), Greg Gilbert (17) NYI 3 – 4 WSH
  3. 7:33 Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (16) Dave Christian (26) NYI 3 – 5 WSH
  4. 10:44 Mike Gartner (18) Timo Blomqvist (5), Gary McAdam (4) NYI 3 – 6 WSH
  5. 18:35 Bobby Gould (9) Gaetan Duchesne (9), Glen Currie (11) NYI 3 – 7 WSH

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike Bossy R 1 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 1.53
Greg Gilbert L 1 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 1.23
Bryan Trottier C 0 2 1 0 0 -2 0:00 1.03
Brent Sutter C 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.90
Dave Langevin D 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Gord Dineen D 0 1 0 0 0 -3 0:00 0.18
Stefan Persson D 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Duane Sutter R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Anders Kallur C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Gord Lane D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Clark Gillies L 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Bob Bourne C 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.22
John Tonelli L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Butch Goring C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Ken Morrow D 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.30
Tomas Jonsson D 0 0 1 0 0 -5 0:00 -0.68
Mats Hallin C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -1.05
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Roland Melanson L 41 34 7 .829 60:00 -1.85

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bengt-Ake Gustafsson L 3 1 4 0 0 +4 0:00 3.63
Dave Christian R 0 3 0 0 0 +3 0:00 2.33
Craig Laughlin R 1 1 3 0 0 +3 0:00 2.05
Bobby Gould R 1 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.83
Gary McAdam R 0 2 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.78
Mike Gartner R 1 1 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.75
Doug Jarvis C 1 0 3 0 0 +1 0:00 1.13
Timo Blomqvist D 0 1 2 0 0 +4 0:00 0.85
Glen Currie C 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Gaetan Duchesne L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Larry Murphy D 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Peter Andersson D 0 0 3 0 0 +3 0:00 0.68
Darren Veitch D 0 0 6 0 0 -1 0:00 0.30
Scott Stevens D 0 0 1 0 0 +2 0:00 0.23
Rod Langway D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Bobby Carpenter C 0 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.15
Dave Shand D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Greg Adams L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Al Jensen W 22 19 3 .864 60:00 -0.35