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Thursday, January 1, 1987 · Capital Centre

Penguins 3 at Capitals 4

Final/OT

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

R 90OVR Mike Gartner Capitals First Star 2G · 1A · 5 SOG D 66OVR Jim Johnson Penguins Second Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG L 88OVR Gaetan Duchesne Capitals Third Star 1G · 1A · 3 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 2:19 Jim Johnson (3) Craig Simpson (13), Ron Duguay (12) PIT 1 – 0 WSH
  2. 16:57 Dave Hannan (7) Jim Johnson (16), Randy Cunneyworth (7) PIT 2 – 0 WSH
  3. 19:12 Mike Gartner (8) PPG Larry Murphy (23) PIT 2 – 1 WSH
  4. 19:23 Bobby Gould (9) Gaetan Duchesne (13), John Blum (6) PIT 2 – 2 WSH

2nd Period

No scoring

3rd Period

  1. 16:50 Ville Siren (4) Terry Ruskowski (26) PIT 3 – 2 WSH
  2. 19:18 Gaetan Duchesne (6) Mike Gartner (15), Lou Franceschetti (5) PIT 3 – 3 WSH

Overtime

  1. 1:30 Mike Gartner (9) Scott Stevens (18) PIT 3 – 4 WSH

Pittsburgh Penguins

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Jim Johnson D 1 1 3 0 0 +2 0:00 1.90
Randy Cunneyworth L 0 1 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.08
Ron Duguay C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Craig Simpson L 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.78
Ville Siren D 1 0 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.75
Chris Dahlquist D 0 0 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.30
Kevin Lavallee L 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.22
Willy Lindstrom R 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Dave Hannan C 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Randy Hillier D 0 0 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.07
John Chabot C 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Bob Errey L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Dan Quinn C 0 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Phil Bourque L 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 0.00
Terry Ruskowski C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.05
Rod Buskas D 0 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.22
Dan Frawley R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.23
Doug Bodger D 0 0 1 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Roberto Romano L 30 26 4 .867 61:30 -0.40

Washington Capitals

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Mike Gartner R 2 1 5 0 0 +1 0:00 2.65
Gaetan Duchesne L 1 1 3 0 0 0 0:00 1.60
Larry Murphy D 0 1 1 0 0 +1 0:00 0.85
Lou Franceschetti L 0 1 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.78
Scott Stevens D 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.55
Michal Pivonka C 0 0 2 0 0 +2 0:00 0.45
John Blum D 0 1 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.33
Dave Christian R 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 0.22
Bobby Gould R 1 0 2 0 0 0 0:00 0.15
Ed Kastelic R 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Rod Langway D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
John Barrett D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Gary Sampson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Greg Smith D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Kevin Hatcher D 0 0 3 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.08
David Jensen C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Craig Laughlin R 0 0 2 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.15
Greg Adams L 0 0 3 0 0 0 0:00 -0.83
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Bob Mason W 33 30 3 .909 61:07 0.75